Looks nice. Has anyone tried tailoring one of these services to appeal to client <-> developer relationships? e.g. selling "your clients can easily edit the emails your app sends out without bugging you / requiring a redeploy."
That seems doable with something like alphamail, but I've yet to see a service that targets that specific need.
To me is quite a deal breaker so far. The code on our website with Amail is really really more simple (no template engine for instance). And they give you out of the box a ton of analytics (geolocalization, bounce, click, open) even for singular mails.
Like Amazon SES on steroids.
P.S. Not affiliate with amail, just an enthusiastic user. We are using that at CoffeeStrap and we just saved a lot of time in development.
PostageApp (http://postageapp.com) targets that specific need. Web-editable templates, including separated CSS and attachments which are flattened at send time. It's like a CMS for your transactional email.
Email is an obsolete technology, since it's centralized and its meta data is never encrypted. Therefor it's perfect for interception and surveillance. We should abandon it.
I don't consider this comment to be SPAM. It's a relevant comment, the solution is entirely non-commercial and open-source and there are still tons of people on HN who don't encrypt.
Email is important because it's prevalent, simple, and based on documented open standards. It has an extremely high adoption rate, as close to 100% as you're ever going to get.
Do you really think grandma is going to install darknet software on her computer? Do you think an enterprise would embrace the software you're promoting as a realistic alternative to email?
Although it would be really hard to get people to agree to use PGP for email correspondence, this is a million times easier than trying to darknet the whole internet.
Email has been around for fifty years in various forms, and it could be around for fifty more.
How it gets delivered, how it's secured, and how it's consumed will change, but the basic principle will stay the same.
It's extremely rare to see a new technology take hold, the web and HTTP, instant messenger, and BitTorrent are anomalies.
Stop trying to "disrupt" and "reboot" things and instead look to repair deficiencies in our existing technologies with backwards-compatible extensions instead of throwing them out.
I was just thinking that I really needed a service like this.
One feature I really need though would be support for internationalization, since creating a separate project for each language is quite annoying (and the reason why I'm not using MixPanel Engage.)
Do you have plans for supporting that? If you could integrate with OneSky that would be even better! :)
I get that this includes an e-mail template editor. But I can't understand what I get with this product that I don't get with something like Amazon SES. The cost of SES is a fraction of AlphaMail.
Looks really cool. Love the interface. FWIW, the first step of the demo had some elements offscreen and unreadable. I could also never make it to the editor.
This is a great concept. I've been a long time user of PostmarkApp, which has served me extremely well, but requires a lot of coding time to create and deploy new emails. If you've ever created HTML emails, you know the pain I'm talking about.
My only concern is the deliverability, but I'm intrigued enough to give it a try seeing as how there's a free tier.
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Like Amazon SES on steroids.
P.S. Not affiliate with amail, just an enthusiastic user. We are using that at CoffeeStrap and we just saved a lot of time in development.
I suggest we replace Email with a superior solution: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
Open source or not this is not something that will ever replace email.
Do you read the news? And have you compared the gravity of the situation with the level of apathy of the general public?
If so, how can you NOT want people to know about easy encryption solutions?
Do you really think grandma is going to install darknet software on her computer? Do you think an enterprise would embrace the software you're promoting as a realistic alternative to email?
Although it would be really hard to get people to agree to use PGP for email correspondence, this is a million times easier than trying to darknet the whole internet.
That's not how change will come.
How it gets delivered, how it's secured, and how it's consumed will change, but the basic principle will stay the same.
It's extremely rare to see a new technology take hold, the web and HTTP, instant messenger, and BitTorrent are anomalies.
Stop trying to "disrupt" and "reboot" things and instead look to repair deficiencies in our existing technologies with backwards-compatible extensions instead of throwing them out.
One feature I really need though would be support for internationalization, since creating a separate project for each language is quite annoying (and the reason why I'm not using MixPanel Engage.)
Do you have plans for supporting that? If you could integrate with OneSky that would be even better! :)
My only concern is the deliverability, but I'm intrigued enough to give it a try seeing as how there's a free tier.