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by troygoode 5y ago
Are there any providers we don't have that would be helpful? We're always adding more.
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by troygoode 5y ago
> Where is the line between something like MailChimp and Courier? Mailchimp has two services: a marketing tool for e.g. newsletters and a transaction email service (previously called Mandrill). Most customers use Courier alongside market
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by troygoode 5y ago
Hey I really appreciate it! I just saw the news about your Series A this morning btw – congratulations!
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by troygoode 5y ago
Appreciate it! In the future if you find your engineering team is spending a lot of time building & maintaining this kind of infrastructure keep us in mind.
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by troygoode 5y ago
Totally hear you! We offer substantial volume discounts for high-volume senders to make sure we can fit within most teams' budgets. Do you mind if I ask how many messages you're typically sending?
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by troygoode 5y ago
No, since we use your existing providers ("bring your own") you'd still have to pay for services that you plug in – just like Segment & analytics tools.
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by troygoode 5y ago
Yup! We support in-app notifications via real-time "toast" as well as an inbox where your users can see the last 20 (or more) notifications, mark them as read/unread, etc. Demo example: https://reactinappnotificati
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by troygoode 5y ago
Hey we're launch buddies. :-) Congrats on the launch!
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by troygoode 5y ago
Thanks Hana! I hope you and your team are doing well!
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by troygoode 5y ago
Yes, we definitely consolidate (and normalize) state for deliverability, opens, and clicks across providers and channels. One interesting thing we do here is for channels like Slack & Teams that support webhook-based click interactions
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by troygoode 5y ago
Great point! I just changed it to a reset code (to make it a bit terser than a full URL just for the sake of brevity).
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by troygoode 5y ago
That is a really good point. We should probably turn this into a 2FA code example instead. Edit: fixed!
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Launch HN: Courier (YC S19) – Developer infrastructure for product notifications(courier.com)
103 points by troygoode 5y ago|58 comments
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by troygoode 5y ago
Did IoT really fizzle out though? In my mind it just became more mainstream expected. Yes, silly things like connected refrigerators / toasters / whatever were a gimmick but the watch I'm wearing, the earphones I'm weari
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How to Use Notifications to Build a Game in 36 Hours(courier.com)
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How to Use Notifications to Build a Game in 36 Hours(courier.com)
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Who Knew Email Subjects Are So Complicated(courier.com)
12 points by troygoode 5y ago|4 comments
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From MVP to Production Ready with Serverless(courier.com)
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Best of Courier at Hackabull 2021: Speed Friender(courier.com)
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by troygoode 5y ago
100%. I'm old enough that when I started my career we were still storing credit card numbers on our servers (and many companies were unfortunately doing so in the raw...). PCI compliance luckily knocked some sense into the industry. Cr
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by troygoode 5y ago
FWIW given GDPR, CCPA, et al so do auth & communication. I'd honestly have a big problem with our team wanting to store passwords ourselves...
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by troygoode 5y ago
Sure, it is obviously biased – I started Courier because I think developers shouldn't be building their notifications infra themselves. Why would you offload payments instead of e.g. connecting directly to payment gateways yourself, bu
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Three things to never build yourself: auth, notifications, payments(courier.com)
213 points by troygoode 5y ago|185 comments
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We Kept Datadog from Blowing Up Our AWS Bill(courier.com)
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by troygoode 5y ago
He specifically addresses this in footnote [3].
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by troygoode 5y ago
This is incorrect. HN is run by Y Combinator; yes, PG started YC, but he retired from YC 7 years ago.
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by troygoode 6y ago
For a more modern take on Obsidian Portal I strongly recommend LegendKeeper ( https://www.legendkeeper.com/ ). I use it for the campaign I DM for both for my own notes and for making some of the lore / locations / c
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by troygoode 6y ago
This is definitely an area of B2B sales that often gets overlooked; glad to see innovation in this space! Great looking product, too. Congrats on the seed round!
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by troygoode 6y ago
Got it dang. Understood.
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by troygoode 6y ago
> I would love to see if there are more startups or products out there like MagicBell We don't currently do in-app notifications so not directly like MagicBell, but handle a lot of the other challenges you mentioned. We were heavily

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