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   by dshipper 15y ago

   Hahaha I think universities will still be teaching Java too :)
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   by dshipper 15y ago

   It's really hard to tell what the product actually does from just that one screenshot. I tried to sign up but it said my username was taken (even though I've definitely never signed up before). Looks like an interesting product if I could s
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   Show HN: Faucet better drip marketing for Rails(faucetgem.com)

   1 points by dshipper 15y ago|0 comments
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   by dshipper 15y ago

   Perhaps the site in question only allows US visitors ;). But good point! I guess there's always the danger of over-constraining possible inputs, but the general principle still holds that more guidance is better than less, and the more you
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   by dshipper 15y ago

   Thanks! I loved that book when I read it a few months ago. One of the best examples they give of this concept is a VCR. There's only one way to put a tape into a VCR, and it isn't done with instructions or symbols, it's done using affordanc
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   Design Your Website Like A Trash Can(dshipper.posterous.com)

   5 points by dshipper 15y ago|4 comments
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   by dshipper 15y ago

   I'd like to respectfully disagree. I think it's akin to saying "web browsers are not for running applications; that's what operating systems are for" 10 years ago. Email has a huge amount of potential to be used as a medium beyond just plai
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   by dshipper 15y ago

   will do, thanks for the recommendation!
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   by dshipper 15y ago

   Thanks I'm glad you found it useful!
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    Oh wow thanks for the heads up. I wonder how that could have happened - we just launched the site today. I'll definitely look into it. Is it possible that a previous owner of the domain used it for malware?
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    Thanks for the comment! I agree to some extent but using HTML doesn't necessarily mean a gaudy signature. For example your two line signature could be reduced to one line by linking your name to www.kswizz.com. I don't think that we should
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    Ok I definitely agree that we should change the Download Now button to something else if it's misleading. Thanks for the feedback!
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    That's exactly what I meant by longtail leads. Thanks for the advice, I'm going to spend some time tonight going over keywords to optimize it as much as possible. We're definitely looking to make this into a case-study for inbound marketing
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    Fair enough :). Are you saying that in general you don't give your email out, or are you saying you think the value prop for this particular app is too weak to give an email out for?
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    Hey everyone. We built this in a day yesterday by repurposing code from our current startup (Airtime for Email). We're hoping that people find it useful, and that eventually it will be able to help us generate qualified longtail leads from
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    Show HN: HTML for Mail(htmlformail.com)

    23 points by dshipper 15y ago|20 comments
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    Excellent point. Added to our todo list :)
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    Thanks for the heads up we'll check it out!
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    Great points all. About Us section is coming ASAP. Agree on the SOPA banners as well. Thanks for taking the time to let us know.
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! It's impossible for us to tell what percentage of the total number of emails sent the 110,000 impressions represents because our server only gets hit when images are loaded. If images aren't loaded our server is nev
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    Thanks so much! It's mostly done by hand but the buttons are from Foundation: http://foundation.zurb.com/
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    Good point. We tried doing something where if the same email thread was loading multiple banners we would only serve one - but good email services like GMail load an image once and then display it multiple times throughout the thread thus d
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    Any company with employees that send out a lot of email every day. So for example if you have a big sales team, the marketing department doesn't have to tell them "Ok this week we want to talk more about widgetX" instead all they have to do
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    It's just an image in the bottom of the email. Many clients do avoid tracking but many don't. For example on an iPhone all images are loaded by default. Additionally a lot of people press "Display Images Below". Initially I thought that ima
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    Wow I'd love to look at that project. The one problem is that we don't always have access to the actual HTML of the emails being sent out. For example, you can integrate Airtime with GMail but Gmail doesn't actually allow you to play with H
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    You can definitely use this with WiseStamp although that's not the recommended path to integration :)
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. Yep Moveable Ink has similar technology and they're a great startup. Our product is just a bit more targeted to marketing :)
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    Thanks! It's just a simple HTML snippet that gets inserted into their emails. The snippet contains an image that we change on the server side. It's gets a lot more complicated than that, but that's the basic premise. I'd love to chat more s
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    by dshipper 15y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! If the recipient's user agent doesn't display images we don't record an impression, and so it doesn't show up in the analytics. I totally understand that it might be annoying to only get a marketing message from cli
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    Show HN: Our 5 month project Airtime for Email(airtimehq.com)

    66 points by dshipper 15y ago|33 comments