yenoham
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Open-source is good for solo and small projects, but there are commercial solutions with continuous support, etc. and other features (e.g. SMS) like Mailosaur too
Comment · 5 years ago
Somewhat related anecdote. Whilst we didn't get cut off, we found a huge drop-off in time to receive, and the quality of, support from our live chat/support messaging provider.
Having been a customer since our launch [1], and very early after theirs, it has been really sad and frustrating to see that friendly distrupter energy zap out of the service.
I get why businesses go through that changes like this during growth, but it feels like all the things to let slide, your persona is not one of them!
[1] https://mailosaur.com (somewhat related to the thread we let you test SMS messages)
Comment · 8 years ago
I co-founded a business, specifically around email testing, largely for the reason you mentioned. When developing we often skipped things like plain text, and usually only did a cursory glance over other aspects, very much less did we automate anything. It came back to bite us so many times (presumably countless times that we weren't alerted too also).
Obviously I'm entirely biased, but to your point on business-minds pushing for edge I'm even more convinced that manual testing alone is never going to cut it going forward.
Shameless plug at the bottom as it's rare that email testing gets limelight on HN :) https://mailosaur.com
Comment · 9 years ago
OT but I really like the website - do you mind if I ask who created it?
Comment · 9 years ago
Also https://mailosaur.com
Disclaimer co-founder
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm co-creator of mailosaur.com
We added both the SMTP option and wildcard email address suffix for this reason - Some people want to use SMTP to catch all, others prefer specific email addresses (e.g. One per test run)
Comment · 9 years ago
Has anyone here gathered a bunch of resources similar to this, especially around early-days bootstrap Marketing for SaaS?
We created our product as a group with engineering backgrounds and now trying to switch some to full on Marketing mode and trying to grab anything I can get my hands on.
Comment · 12 years ago
But their reasoning for not entering your real password into a checker is "...unlike this one, some may be fake"
Then they follow it up with "Why not get your family, friends and workmates to test their passwords too?"
And the placeholder in the input field is "Enter your password".
Comment · 13 years ago
I completely agree. One of the main things I like about HN's simplistic style, is that within a few seconds I can scan a dozen or so entries and filter out what I'm going to look through.
Comment · 13 years ago
When articles like this are submitted to HN, can we have a discussion on what us as individuals can actually do (if anything)?
I'd rather drop 100 comments on general FEELING towards the news, for 1 or 2 comments suggesting 'Let's create a campaign site' or 'There is nothing we can do, lets just sit here in silence'
Edit: For what it's worth my ONLY suggestion is that a campaign site similar to that for SOPA, etc. is put together - ideally on GitHub or similar so it can be rapidly put together.
Comment · 13 years ago
This is why I believe the 'opt-in/out' switching should be as seemless and accessible as possible - if it is, then to my mind this is no closer to censorship than the film classification system.
"By default the state assumes you don't want to see sexual content; if you do - thats fine by us"
Note that I'm saying this is how I see it balancing with civil liberties - there is of course the chance that it DOESN'T work out like this in practice.
[0] https://mailosaur.com