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by pirsquare 4y ago
"prod realtime apps shouldn't run on gcp." YES! Everyone should read this. Google Cloud will shutdown your servers for the slightest stupid reason. NEVER EVER run any production apps with Google Cloud. - "gaslighting tha
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by pirsquare 4y ago
Yes in my case I was a 4 yrs customer with Google Cloud and they abruptly shutdown all my servers last friday. Any decent human being would at least try to rectify things ASAP, except for Google. 3 days now and they still haven't gave
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by pirsquare 4y ago
Remember Stadia? Google doesn't give a fuck about their users or customers. I would rather trust my money with Bernie Madoff than Google. I'm a 4 yrs customer with Google Cloud and they shutdown all my servers last friday. 3 days
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by pirsquare 4y ago
Thanks! Link updated to my own tweet. I don't know why my post got removed. It's no diff from previous gcloud horror stories.
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by pirsquare 4y ago
Google Map 10X their price on a single price change. Never trust Google Cloud or run any production servers with them. They have zero empathy for you. Just today, we got screwed by Google Cloud (as a 4 yrs customer) when they abruptly shutd
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by pirsquare 4y ago
Congrats for the launch! My startup also provide email marketing but we're not in similar vertical. The biggest headache in this business is dealing with spammers. Trust me, you will get more signups from spammers than actual users. So
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by pirsquare 5y ago
Postmark is the gold standard for transactional emails. They have the best deliverability since they don't mix marketing emails.
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by pirsquare 5y ago
FWIW, I wouldn't recommend Constant Contact to anyone. Simple reason is that you need to call their support line to cancel subscription. Source: https://community.constantcontact.com/t5/Get-Help/Billing-FA...
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by pirsquare 5y ago
they are moving into ecommerce. They've acquired tradegecko last yr and rebranded it as quickbooks commerce. Also, if you look at mailchimp recent product changes with addition of MC stores, they are positioning themselves to compete a
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by pirsquare 5y ago
This is the problem with usage based pricing. It is very lucrative pricing strategy because it works for lower end of market as well as enterprise users. One way to resolve this is to offer fixed tier based pricing for customers who may be
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by pirsquare 5y ago
"I find IP based mail blacklist services such as BRBL obsolete and possibly harmful" Fully agree to this. I've always wonder why spam filters don't place more importance on domain reputation. So many senders runs on the
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by pirsquare 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. The reason why CEOs are so well paid is to come up with processes to prevent such things from happening in the first place. The management team should be the first to be blamed when such incidents arise.
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Rogue developer wants to extort our startup. What would you do?(indiehackers.com)
1 points by pirsquare 6y ago|1 comments
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by pirsquare 6y ago
FWIW, Pieter Levels just started using Git last week. https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1327451757975375874 This is one-man who made > $1million a year.
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by pirsquare 6y ago
"Twilio was a surprise acquirer. Many expected Segment to be picked off by one of the usual suspects like Adobe or Salesforce." In terms of culture, Twilio would be a better fit, given their focus on developer evangelism in user a
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by pirsquare 6y ago
That happens if email is opened via clients like Thunderbird. For gmail, image will be served via google proxy servers.
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by pirsquare 6y ago
"but 3 months later, they reopen that same email, you get a live read notification" It doesn't work for gmail users. Tracking pixel will only be fired the first time the email is opened. After that, images will be served via
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by pirsquare 6y ago
Great! This sort of "interactive link" is polite and what I wish more websites would adopt instead of cluttering their site with fixed positioned widgets. A good example is chat widget. Instead of using a fixed positioned chat wi
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by pirsquare 6y ago
Messaging and live chat
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by pirsquare 6y ago
Awesome - Didn't know about this trick. I'm reconfiguring most of the my extensions to this. Gracias!
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by pirsquare 6y ago
Great research! I'm a user of evernote web clipper and seeing that they're adding 3mb to every page that I'm using is extremely discouraging. My browse to clip ratio is around 1000:1 and I'm probably removing the extensi
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by pirsquare 6y ago
Solarized Color Scheme - You spent more time looking at your code than you see your spouse. A good color scheme reduces fatigue especially when you are working through your code for long periods.
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by pirsquare 6y ago
I think the movie is Snowpiercer? Great movie by the way.
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by pirsquare 7y ago
In most cases, you can simply just return 204 status code (for empty response) to shave away the bytes used to serve 1X1 pixel. The pixel is simply there to make the request.
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by pirsquare 7y ago
I've worked with plenty of APIs (> 50). The biggest headaches I came across are bureaucratic stuffs rather than poor API designs. For example, there are vendors (like ConstantContact) that requires you to provide your credit card to
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by pirsquare 7y ago
Singaporean here - I don't think they are faked. It's just that we don't have strong opposition party. Many opposition parties here spent majority of their time complaining every single decision the government makes instead o
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by pirsquare 7y ago
Thanks - you certainly made a good point. But there's one problem with enforcement of explicit sort and this the problem I constantly have with my projects. By default, most tables that I have are sorted by "created_datetime"
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by pirsquare 7y ago
Regarding table columns sorting - are there anyone else who thinks that clicking on the same column the third time should remove the sort? For example: • First Click: Sort ASC • Second Click: Sort DESC • Third Click: Remove Column
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by pirsquare 7y ago
Seems like an extension app rather than a built-in product which I think made alot sense since existing pure-play vendors like Klaviyo have a far superior product. Also, it gives merchants the options to evaluate email marketing tool on a m
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by pirsquare 7y ago
"Sales are 95% about relationships and 5% about Product." Seen this so many times - not just in sales but also in acquisition. Guy from startup joins MNC in decision making role, then proceeds to acquire startup.

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