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Comment · 3 years ago
This looks nicely polished and I might pay for this since it provides some real value but it has the same problem many other front-end SaaS products have - it hijacks the end user.

What I mean is that I can't use it without sending my users to your site. For example, I use sendgrid for marketing and transactional mail. I think our bill fluctuates between $200-500/month. I would consider using Sendgrid's WYSIWYG editor (even though it's not very good) but I can't do it without:

- sending my users to their website,

- managing separate accounts/permission,

- breaking continuity with my product,

- storing potentially private attachments offsite,

- loosing any integrations I could provide

What I would like from a product like yours is to be able to use your frontend as a javascript embed without the other clutter. i.e. a hosted library rather than a full product.

Your embed would have to define some sort of plug-in API for uploading images/attachments and browsing existing ones and then your clients would have to provide end points for those APIs.

I would then request the completed HTML after editing and handle all the sending and related issues myself (through my vendor like sendgrid).

I know building hosted javascript embeds isn't as sexy as a full SaaS offering but there is definitely a market for it. Lots of people sell products that send email - you could sell to those people.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
What's admirable about it? This is just a fiction that you Americans tell yourselves about the next revolution.

Name one, just one way, that ease of gun ownership has protected Americans from their government in a way that citizens of other western democracies have suffered?

There is no scenario in which any citizen with a gun in any country defeats their government. Your gun will keep you safe about as well as your password protected Word document keeps you safe from the NSA snooping.

Comment · 5 years ago
I don't know anything about the situation over there but did they really ban it? For example this bloomberg report talks about foreign ownership via holding companies. So are foreigners not able to hold stakes in NZ companies or are NZ companies not able to hold realestate (doubtful?).
Comment · 5 years ago
Doesn't it still exist in Quebec?
Comment · 5 years ago
Hi there, nice site.

I'm really like this combined side scrolling table + graph component you use on the pulse page. Looking at the source I see a mention of echarts in the html but I don't think I've seen anything like that in their examples.

Did you build this yourself as a custom rendered chart or is this something that someone else built?

Comment · 5 years ago
I don't know. I wish I fell for their scam back in 2009/2010 when they were flooding HN with bitcoin posts. There were so many it seemed coordinated.
Comment · 5 years ago
I don't know if we should give Toyota any praise over their supply chain management. Consider the situation with their electric vehicles.

The plug-in hybrid "rav4 prime" has a 2 year wait list. They sold 3200 last year because they don't have any battery capacity. https://insideevs.com/news/466641/us-toyota-rav4-prime-sales...

This is a bit of digression on this thread, but it's stuff like this that makes it seem like traditional car companies are still out to lunch vs Tesla. They're just too slow to adapt and give up what has worked for decades.

Comment · 5 years ago
Price Distribution by Year -- this is an interesting one. Looks like eventually there isn't a huge variance in price. So brands with "good resale value" probably don't matter if you're keeping your car a really long time.
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Comment · 6 years ago
This would certainly be convenient, however if your mailing lists contains a lot of old people then they forward your emails to their friends. Their friends who are annoyed by this then unsubscribe the original recipient without noticing that the email was forwarded by their friend.

This is a real problem for us - not a made up scenario. So we remove the auto-filled email on the unsubscribe form.

Comment · 6 years ago
My guess it's to counter those popular code-golf language comparisons that make c# look verbose for short apps.
Comment · 6 years ago
Is leaving a country really that hard if you have a little money? Seems like something you should be able to do without the assistance of green berets unless you're in a movie.

A country like Japan must have: 1. Dozens of private jets leaving it's airspace daily. 2. Hundreds of fishing boats leaving it territorial waters daily.

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