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Honest opinion on API first mail hosting platform

6 points by mailcheap ↗ HN
Hey everyone,

I'm Pavin Joseph, founder and Systems Engineer at Mailcheap (mailcheap.co). Signed up since I saw a post on IndieHackers that to get the "Hard Truth" I should "launch on HN", so here I am...

Mailcheap has been in business for almost 5 years now but the platform was completely overhauled last month after more than an year of work on an API-first mail hosting solution.

I appreciate any and all feedback :)

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mtmail
This should qualify for https://news.ycombinator.com/show where founders/makers present their product and ask for feedback. It gets a bit more visibility, especially of the first comment is like yours "founder here, happy to answer questions or such". Just add "Show HN:" to the title.

Concept to run the mail backend for resellers sounds great. Friends use a German reseller company ending with .org. Not naming them here, I assume you know whom I'm talking about, probably a competitors, and they're not happy with their API, constant trouble, hard to test, after many complaints the support got unresponsive. I'll point them to your service.

[dead] mailcheap
@mtmail Thank you, appreciate it! :)
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tony-allan
Great idea but email sending limits are too low for my use case of outsourced email for small apps.

An API to simply send and receive emails would be great. Perhaps even webhooks.

Or perhaps JMAP https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8621