mrmch
Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
Aside from an invite snafu I've been impressed with the scheduler.
Mailgun has one of the best inbound/outbound API combinations available, great for companies with a strong developer team.
Canadian founders, Garry+Alexis are super canuck friendly, some of the best investors we have :)
Anymail finder uses many approaches to find emails—it searches billions of web pages and performs direct server validation.
The original SMTP spec allows for email address validation, and there are tricks like opening an SMTP connection to a mail server and dropping it half way if the address is verified -- but these are the same "tricks" that spammers use, so many mail servers disable or report false positives. There's a reason why most lead services have a high price: they have actually verified an email address.
Next, sending cold emails to business is OK (sometimes annoying but legally ok), but the copy on makesmail.com has a broken link (1) and doesn't clearly describe how to cold email and be legally compliant. From the horses mouth: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can...
Regardless, congratulations on building up to $1,500 MRR, that is a milestone most side projects never reach!
cofounder of sendwithus.com
avid rock climber and hacker
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