mrmch

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   by mrmch 12y ago

   Hangouts can still work for this, you can do a screenshare in a video hangout. Requires everyone to have google accounts though (personal or business). There are also numerous great conference/screen share tools out there, like speek.c
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   by mrmch 12y ago

   This is amazing, we never considered making the guide open source/community driven. Many of our other resources already are. We'll fork your markdown version this weekend and make the guide we host github powered.
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   by mrmch 12y ago

   Thanks! We get many questions around this topic, and it made sense to us that you track your metrics against a funnel (AARRR usually) you can map your emails to that as well.
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   by mrmch 12y ago

   Woah, as an instacart-lover and yc alum, big props to Apoorva and team. Joining the rare group of $1B+ YC companies!
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   by mrmch 12y ago

   Jon has been a strong advisor on key issues, psyched to have him as a full time partner!
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   by mrmch 12y ago

   Congrats to Teespring, this is huge :) Awesome to see a customer growing like this.
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   by mrmch 12y ago

   Should definitely highlight (at least to the HN crowd) that this is an Android device and you're exposing some APIs that can be built on. This is really cool.
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   by mrmch 12y ago

   Some screenshots on how it works would be swell
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   by mrmch 12y ago

   Woot, congrats James and team. Google will make a good home :)
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    Super shameless plug, but easy internationalization for email is something we've added to Sendwithus. We're working with multiple partners on it (sample at https://www.sendwithus.com/translations ), but are still l
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    This is freaking awesome. Vi-mode is huge.
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    Hello fellow BC startup! I've brought your tips up with the team, thanks for your feedback! We use Jinja templates behind the scene, which doesn't autoescape by default -- so you're free to inject HTML through a variable. You
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    Exactly this; transactional or product based emails are baked into every web service or mobile app you use today. People depend on them for information they want, but the content shouldn't be owned by a developer. That's our goal
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    Cofounder of Sendwithus -- I just wanted to give an additional shout out to some of the amazing angel investors included in this round. Full details on AngelList ( https://angel.co/sendwithus ). I think it shows how funding i
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    This is a big one many people miss.
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    The Pirate's Guide to Email (Email and Pirate Metrics)(sendwithus.com)

    26 points by mrmch 12y ago|5 comments
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    Python Templating Performance Showdown: Django vs. Jinja(blog.sendwithus.com)

    16 points by mrmch 12y ago|1 comments
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    One of the core features of Sendwithus that we DON'T talk about is the fact that we inline css for you at send time. Such a pain to build out a inlining and testing workflow for content that should be in some kind of cms.
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    Hotmail has a dedicated abuse team, why not try getting in touch? There's no reason a legitimate invoice email shouldn't be getting through!
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    Thanks! This was a team effort, not just me :) We like the idea of "purpose driven" templates, and that's why we've designed that way. Who thinks "I want a 3 column email template"? Most people think "I ne
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    The way we intend this is that if you redistribute the templates (say you host your own template gallery, or put them together as a zip you send people), then attribution would be nice. If you're using the templates to send email, no a
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    Thanks, that's super flattering for the whole sendwithus team!
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    That's why all the CSS is inlined for you as well :)
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    Glad we could help out!
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    We always encourage people to A/B test plain text versus HTML, and from the results seen it's entirely dependent on the audience. If you're emailing developers, keep it clean/plain. Many consumers appreciate if an email
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    The Zurb Ink templates are great! We use them as a base for some of our templates as well. The process of going from the Zurb template to something you might want to actually use often means people break the responsive elements of the templ
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    sendwithus cofounder; we've had a template gallery internally in the product since launch, but we felt that these templates were something that everyone should be able to use. We didn't want to launch "just another template g
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    I think they are two different problems. Either you're helping my business respond to customer requests more efficiently, or your making it dead simple for me to ask questions/order/talk to a business.
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    I don't see the business side of this being super interesting, but the consumer side is awesome. An app where I can make any request to a business, through my phone, and you sort out the details? That's awesome.
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    by mrmch 12y ago

    What a pleasant surprise :) PH is a great community.