massiarri

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   by massiarri 2y ago

   I can see what you mean. That was really not the intent. The feedback that we received when we first launched the product mattered a lot, and this was meant as a way to acknowledge it. Sorry if it came across that way.
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   by massiarri 5y ago

   If it's a B2C model, then ad-supported might be the way to go, but if it's B2B, there are lots and lots of great examples of making things work. You definitely need to figure out the math about the incremental cost of additional f
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   by massiarri 5y ago

   Yes, you're right on. But in those 5.2 million sessions there's everything, including the many applications that use our embeddable editors free of charge. So, it's a cool metric, but it doesn't tell the complete story.
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   by massiarri 5y ago

   No, the model is the product-led growth model. For example, take our BEE Pro product: we do tens of thousands of monthly users of the free editor at beefree.io, of which over 10,000 become free trial users of BEE Pro every month, and of the
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   by massiarri 5y ago

   Thanks for the kind words and for the best wishes. I agree: cannot believe it's been 7 years already!!
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   by massiarri 5y ago

   We believe in reducing to a minimum the friction to get started. So, I seriously doubt that we will ever have a paywall to get going. In fact, it's more likely that we double-down on free access going forward: the revenue comes (and wi
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   by massiarri 5y ago

   Yes, absolutely.
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   by massiarri 5y ago

   We literally re-wrote the whole thing from the ground up 3 times LOL. At the start it was a JS app built with Jquery. Then we moved to AngularJS (1.x). Finally we decided to rewrite it again with React. A lot of Python in the backend.
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   by massiarri 5y ago

   Thank YOU for being a customer!!
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    by massiarri 5y ago

    There are so many, but a key one is that reducing the distance between what you created, and the people for whom you created it, really does pay off: more adoption, more feedback, more clarity on what's going on. Call it product-led gr
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    by massiarri 5y ago

    Thanks so much for the kind note. Yes, my intention was precisely to celebrate the positive impact that the original thread on HN (exactly 7 years ago today!!) had on our business, as we were just getting started. This is not "bs"
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    by massiarri 5y ago

    Correct. It's a wholly-owned subsidiary of Growens. It started as a project within MailUp, the email service provider that is still a big part of Growens. The project grew, and so it became a separate business unit within the group, ba
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    by massiarri 5y ago

    Thanks for the note. Email is such a versatile tool: all kinds of use cases and all sorts of ways to address those use cases. You're absolutely right that - for some of the use cases - plain text is the way to go. BTW: BEE is now a vis
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    by massiarri 5y ago

    BEE is a startup within a larger company ( https://www.growens.io/ ). The parent company funded the startup. At the very beginning, it was a team of 6 (2 of which part-time), if I remember correctly.
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    by massiarri 5y ago

    Yes, that's right!
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    by massiarri 5y ago

    Thanks so much for the kind words. Truly appreciated. And yes, most of our product and development team is still Italy-based, across many regions of Italy :-)
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    by massiarri 5y ago

    Thanks for the note and for your interest in what we do! You can use the templates freely to design emails and pages on beefree.io. If you want to embed our visual builders in your application (i.e. you want to use BEE Plugin), and you also
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    by massiarri 5y ago

    Thanks Simone. Great to hear from you as well. It's been a great ride with BEE, and we're just getting started!! :-)
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    by massiarri 5y ago

    Believe it or not, it's a complete coincidence. Nathan interviewed me on September 23rd, and we had no control on when the interview would actually be published on his podcast.
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    Thank HN: 7 years and $7M later, it all started right here

    501 points by massiarri 5y ago|58 comments
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    BEE editor now embeddable JavaScript plugin

    1 points by massiarri 11y ago|0 comments
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    by massiarri 12y ago

    Yep. If I remember correctly, that's a tough one that we're still struggling with. BeeFree is very much a work in progress, so you'll definitely see some improvements in terms of email client rendering issues in the future. T
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    by massiarri 12y ago

    Cool! If you have any suggestions, please post on http://forum.beefree.io/
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    by massiarri 12y ago

    Thanks so much for the kind words. It was a lot of work (and there's a lot of work ahead of us). This means a lot to the team! Thanks again.
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    by massiarri 12y ago

    Ouch, we had no idea. I guess it's too late now. Oh well, maybe we'll give a good reputation to a name that had a bad one :-)
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    by massiarri 12y ago

    Thank you! Not having any signups was a top priority for us. As for exposing a RESTful API, yes! And considering the among of comments here that go in the same direction, we'll have to raise the priority on this BIG TIME!! Thanks so mu
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    by massiarri 12y ago

    Great feedback. It sounds like we need to raise the priority on this :-)
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    by massiarri 12y ago

    Yes. Definitely on the roadmap. Still trying to figure out the best way to put it out as an embeddable widget.
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    by massiarri 12y ago

    Great to hear!!
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    by massiarri 12y ago

    We've done a lot of testing. We use Email On Acid (they're a partner of ours). It's hard to have 100% consistent results across all email clients and mobile devices (we're definitely not there yet), but we're pretty