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All I wanted was a custom domain email

59 points · 78 comments · jgx0

  1. adospace · · focus · HN ↗
    Hi Jacob, Ado here, from FounderMail. I'm really glad you ended up on-boarding with us, and I wanted to reach out to thank you for the review and feedback.

    The manual approve to outbound sending helped a lot to keep spammers out of the platform.

    We ensure that domain exists and you're the owner, the website is legit, etc, making impossible for a bot to operate throughout our channel.

    And is working, almost 4 weeks in, no complaints, less than 0.1 bounce rate.

    You know, having an high reputation is vital to ensure the emails we send on behalf of our customers are reaching the inbox not the spam folder.

    Said that, you continue to be right: it's annoying. We're working to reduce the pain autoapproving it for cases like your.

    Thank you again (I hope you'll never find a reason to leave us! :)

    1. jgx0 · · focus · HN ↗
      Thank you for creating such a great service! It’s always great using a product and getting to thank the developer directly. Your platform seems perfect so far and it was extremely quick to get approved for outbound sending (definitely less than 12 hours). Seems to be working perfectly so far, and I don’t think i’ll be switching anytime soon.
    2. bakugo · · focus · HN ↗
      > making impossible for a bot to operate throughout our channel.

      Somewhat ironic, given your entire website is AI generated.

      1. MarcellusDrum · · focus · HN ↗
        You're saying that building their own website using AI is equivalent to sending spam emails?
        1. handoflixue · · focus · HN ↗
          Building a website with Claude is literally "a bot operating on their channels". Whether these are morally equivalent is an unrelated axis - it's the literal claim that's being disputed
      2. 4b11b4 · · focus · HN ↗
        Seems you're... conflating the concepts of spamming people with using a language model to generate code
    3. stingrae · · focus · HN ↗
      Is it actually free to use? i cant find the pricing page
    4. shaewest · · focus · HN ↗
      I went to your site to check this out, and I found the bright orange from the first slide was killing my eyes, and my coworkers. The other landing page slides were great, the first one made me want to leave.

      Overall looks like a great tool that I'll look into for my next projects.

      1. phalangion · · focus · HN ↗
        > killing… my coworkers.

        RIP

      2. joshcartme · · focus · HN ↗
        Jacob&#x27;s blog links to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foundermail.mx&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foundermail.mx&#x2F;, I&#x27;m guessing you were looking at foundermail.app. I have no idea if they&#x27;re related, but the former does not burn your eyes, the latter is very bright
      3. ricericerice · · focus · HN ↗
        I found the egregious LLM generated text a bit of a turn off, too.

        If you don&#x27;t care about your website, why should I?

    5. soltanov · · focus · HN ↗

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