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jonathanbull
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https://emailoctopus.com | LONDON | ONSITE We're a bootstrapped startup offering mail marketing for up to 10x cheaper than MailChimp. Looking for an onsite PHP developer to join us - experience of AWS essential. Email jonat
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https://emailoctopus.com | LONDON | ONSITE We're a bootstrapped (and profitable!) startup offering mail marketing for up to 10x cheaper than MailChimp. Looking for an onsite PHP developer to join us - experience of AWS esse
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https://emailoctopus.com | LONDON | ONSITE We're a bootstrapped (and profitable!) startup offering mail marketing for up to 10x cheaper than MailChimp. Looking for an onsite PHP developer to join us - experience of AWS esse
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https://emailoctopus.com | LONDON | ONSITE We're a bootstrapped (and profitable!) startup offering mail marketing for up to 10x cheaper than MailChimp. Looking for an onsite PHP developer to join us - experience of AWS esse
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VPNs are configured in Settings->General. Any reason why that would need to be regularly toggled, out of interest?
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Mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JTEauvE...
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Back in 2014, I had a number of side projects on the go and I ran out of money to pay my email marketing bill. I created https://emailoctopus.com to save some money, and that's ended up being my most successful side project
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https://emailoctopus.com | LONDON | ONSITE We're a bootstrapped startup offering mail marketing for up to 10x cheaper than MailChimp. Looking for an onsite PHP developer to join us - experience of AWS essential. Email jonat
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True, but better than the 503 I was receiving.
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Mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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At https://emailoctopus.com we're running around the $2.5k/month mark. Previously $3.5k, but we saved a bunch of money with reserved instances: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-inst
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EmailOctopus | LONDON | ONSITE We're a bootstrapped startup offering mail marketing for up to 10x cheaper than MailChimp. Looking for an onsite PHP developer to join us - experience of AWS essential. https://emailoctopus.com
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We use Lambda extensively at https://emailoctopus.com . The develop-debug cycle takes a while, but once you're up and running, the stability is hard to beat. Just wish they'd raise that 5 minute execution limit so we ca
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Thanks! Glad to hear we might be of use. Feel free to drop me a direct email if you've got any questions (jonathan@domain.com).
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Last year I quit a great full time role to focus on my side project, EmailOctopus ( https://emailoctopus.com ). Haven't looked back since! I didn't take the plunge until quite late on, waiting until it was making enough
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Spot on! On the rare occasion we do, it's discussed in terms of an annual amount.
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EmailOctopus | LONDON | ONSITE We're a bootstrapped startup offering mail marketing for up to 10x cheaper than MailChimp. Looking for an onsite PHP developer to join us - knowledge of AWS essential. https://emailoctopus.com
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Where's Theresa May?
(wherestheresa.com)
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From a Reddit engineer: "This was a product decision. Currently view counts are purely cosmetic, but we did not want to rule out the possibility of them being used in ranking in the future. As such, building in some degree of abuse p
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SEEKING FREELANCER London, UK Remote OK https://emailoctopus.com Looking for a PHP dev with strong AWS experience. Email jonathan@[companyname].com
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These are the top 3 things that worked for us at https://emailoctopus.com : 1) Posted on niche subreddits and HN. Commented and gave a gentle plug on related posts. 2) Launched a free side project on Product Hunt: https:/&
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You're quite right - I've updated the comment and my profile to include that information. Thanks for mentioning. We're already on AlternativeTo but unfortunately below the fold on most of our competitors.
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You might want to check out https://sendy.co/ , or https://emailoctopus.com if you want a hosted equivalent. Both will save you a lot of money over MailChimp. Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of EmailOctopus.
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I co-founded https://emailoctopus.com which might be what you're looking for - we're an AWS partner offering marketing features (list management, open tracking, etc.) on top of SES.
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Cheers Carl, give me a shout if you have any questions.
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At the moment I'm working on EmailOctopus, a cheaper alternative to MailChimp: https://emailoctopus.com
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EmailOctopus | LONDON | ONSITE We're a bootstrapped startup offering mail marketing for up to 10x cheaper than MailChimp. Looking for an onsite PHP developer to join us - knowledge of AWS essential. https://emailoctopus.com
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EmailOctopus: https://emailoctopus.com Cheap email marketing via Amazon SES.
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Firstly, congrats on deciding to take the plunge. I took a similar move a year ago and left full time employment to bootstrap my side project, EmailOctopus ( https://emailoctopus.com ). I haven't looked back since. If you can
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Improve your email deliverability with DMARC, SPF and DKIM
(blog.emailoctopus.com)
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