02thoeva

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by 02thoeva 9y ago
I think you misunderstood, I work for EmailOctopus. Sorry for the confusion.
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by 02thoeva 9y ago
https://emailoctopus.com/
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by 02thoeva 9y ago
Use it for both EC2 and SES. Our customers link their own SES account to send out campaigns, so the advantage of being on EC2 is that many of them don't pay a penny. Server costs is about 10% of our revenue, so will weigh up the pros&#
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by 02thoeva 9y ago
AWS fees. We're an email marketing platform, we send around 150m emails a month, all of which we need to store and process clicks/opens on.
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Dealing with a bad month as a SaaS business(hackernoon.com)
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by 02thoeva 9y ago
We ran our side-project, https://emailoctopus.com , for around 3 years before going full time. As a low-cost platform, our sales are quite low touch, so we'd be able to set up our marketing projects (Facebook ads, email camp
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by 02thoeva 9y ago
Still like using SCSS with Bootstrap. So easy to get into the habit of nesting things 10 selectors deep though - a style guide is a must.
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Open and click tracking now available in Amazon SES(aws.amazon.com)
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by 02thoeva 9y ago
We've had quite a lot of experience using Amazon SES, as we run an email marketing platform on it. We run both our marketing and transactional emails using it for https://emailoctopus.com . If you're already using AWS t
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Building an email marketing platform on Amazon SES(aws.amazon.com)
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by 02thoeva 9y ago
We did write an article here: https://medium.com/emailoctopus/the-road-to-one-billion-emai... Although in short, we built a product to serve our own need, launched it totally free for everyone and ended up gaining arou
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by 02thoeva 9y ago
So we work the hours which work for us now and are free to work from anywhere in the world. For example, I'm not an early riser, so start work at 10am and if I want to leave early, I do. We're very relaxed on exact hours as long a
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by 02thoeva 9y ago
We launched https://emailoctopus.com around 3 years ago as a side project. The most difficult thing with launching a SaaS is the early days, where you've spent hours upon hours building the app and are only bringing in £400
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by 02thoeva 9y ago
In the UK, Eve, a rival maker also just (around a month ago) IPO'd here in the UK. Their figures are scary at the moment, with a CPA hovering around £250-£300 and returns of 15% on the mattresses with the 100-night trial. All that with
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Bigger is not always better when running your startup(medium.com)
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by 02thoeva 9y ago
I put this article together after reading and commenting in this earlier HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14279870 I think there's a real attitude when starting as a side project to go with rock bottom p
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Your SaaS isn't charging enough(medium.com)
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by 02thoeva 9y ago
Just checked out the Smart Passive Income post. It's amazing that almost 10% of ConvertKit's revenue has come from this guy. Thanks so much for sharing. Think this also shows how important your product pricing is, particularly if
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by 02thoeva 9y ago
So we launched https://emailoctopus.com around 3 years ago, it was pitched as 10x cheaper than Mailchimp and that's remained our core proposition. That said, it's very difficult to grow a bootstrapped business when you
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The road to one billion emails – sustainably scaling our startup(medium.com)
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by 02thoeva 10y ago
I run EmailOctopus - happy to discuss anything we can do to help you out, as we're a relatively small SaaS business ourself and know the struggles.
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A list of A/B tests and experiments run on DonaldTrump.com(scribd.com)
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by 02thoeva 10y ago
Fair question. As it stands, there are 2 of us collecting and curating the pieces from what we consider some of the better liberal and conservative opinion sources. We're trying to maintain the quality and integrity of the articles by
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Show HN: Curated news and opinion articles, that you would have never read(thecounterpart.co)
12 points by 02thoeva 10y ago|2 comments