Plunk
Web and SaaS
email marketing
SHOW HN2022
109points
60comments
#574of 2,570 in 2022
Top 23%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
4 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 7 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.
Pricing: 0 for, 3 againstDocs: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clear, useful idea for SaaS engagement and retention
From 2 comments
This looks great, a great tool for all SaaS and MicroSaaS to have engagement with customers and it would definitely help in user retention. Great job!
afrid on HNthis looks useful! Could you please create actual use cases, e.g. a "learning center" for what is email marketing and how could indie hackers use it? I think you could get a lot…
yawnxyz on HN
Clean design
From 1 comment
Guessing you've already done it, but I worked on something loosely related to this a couple years back and best things you can do to avoid it are: 1. Make sure you've done DKIM…
rglover on HN
Objections
Landing page copy 'Behavioural Email Tool' is unclear
From 3 comments
Congrats on launching to HackerNews! First step on a journey of many. Some Feedback: - The biggest words on the landing page are "Behavioural Email Tool" but I don't know what…
boberoni on HN+1 for "I don't know what that means". I think I'm the target demographic, but I don't feel like can effectively compare the pros and cons of this product with something like…
mind-blight on HNReplace all the text "above the fold" (readable without scrolling) with benefit not features. In other words, why I should keep reading, not how you do it. That first text has…
gumby on HN
Free tier with unlimited emails risks spam abuse
From 2 comments
What a very websitey web site. My first thought when I saw that home page was "boy, I bet if I keep scrolling, there's going to be empty areas on the page where things…
Cyberdog on HNCongrats on launching! I'd suggest rethinking "5 automated flows with unlimited emails" on the free plan. Sending a few emails is very cheap, but sending a lot of email is not.…
msmithstubbs on HN
'Completely free' claim conflicts with paid custom domain requirement
From 1 comment
"Completely free, no strings attached" * Sees that I can't email from my own domain unless I pay. (I'm all for paying, but don't say completely free, no strings attached)
altdataseller on HN
Pricing too low
From 1 comment
Congrats on launching to HackerNews! First step on a journey of many. Some Feedback: - The biggest words on the landing page are "Behavioural Email Tool" but I don't know what…
boberoni on HN
Requests
Clearer feature breakdown and use cases on the site
From 3 comments
+1 for "I don't know what that means". I think I'm the target demographic, but I don't feel like can effectively compare the pros and cons of this product with something like…
mind-blight on HNI wish there was more copy on this site about what the tool is and why it's useful. It looks interesting, but there's not enough information there for me to figure out if it's…
letterlib on HNthis looks useful! Could you please create actual use cases, e.g. a "learning center" for what is email marketing and how could indie hackers use it? I think you could get a lot…
yawnxyz on HN
Comparison table with competitor pricing
From 1 comment
Awesome work! I would recommend showing a comparison table of the cost of some of your competitors and your product. I use customer.io for a side project and it's crazy expensive…
wallawe on HN
Integration with Segment
From 1 comment
Awesome work! I would recommend showing a comparison table of the cost of some of your competitors and your product. I use customer.io for a side project and it's crazy expensive…
wallawe on HN
Use own domain for sending instead of awstrack URL
From 1 comment
Congrats on the launch! Just so you know, the awstrack me URL used to verify accounts is blocked by my NextDNS tracking protection and my Firefox tracking protection. It’s not a…
brightball on HN
Questions
How does it perform at scale for high volume senders?
From 1 comment
I'm an indie hacker and I send 2M emails per month on Sendgrid. It costs around $1k per month. I use sendgrid because it just works, but I'm always curious when a new thing comes…
buf on HN
How does sending from useplunk.com affect spam reputation?
From 2 comments
It is very hard to make statements about this. It very much depends on the reputation of your own domain (if you are not using our domain to send your emails) and the content of…
driaug on HNIt sounds like the free version sends emails from the useplunk.com domain. If that is the case and some of those emails get marked as spam, won't all emails from the useplunk.com…
eappleby on HN
What is the benefit versus sending via own SMTP?
From 1 comment
I'm not understanding. What is the benefit of this? This is better than sending emails from my own server using smtp?
rc_kas on HN
Alternatives named
Customer.io
From 2 comments
Awesome work! I would recommend showing a comparison table of the cost of some of your competitors and your product. I use customer.io for a side project and it's crazy expensive…
wallawe on HNWe use Segment->Vero as our main automated email marketing flow (~5M emails per month so not huge, we use Sendgrid via Vero to actually send the emails). We're looking to change…
mousetree on HN
Vero
From 1 comment
We use Segment->Vero as our main automated email marketing flow (~5M emails per month so not huge, we use Sendgrid via Vero to actually send the emails). We're looking to change…
mousetree on HN
MailChimp
From 1 comment
+1 for "I don't know what that means". I think I'm the target demographic, but I don't feel like can effectively compare the pros and cons of this product with something like…
mind-blight on HN
SendGrid
From 1 comment
I'm an indie hacker and I send 2M emails per month on Sendgrid. It costs around $1k per month. I use sendgrid because it just works, but I'm always curious when a new thing comes…
buf on HN
Iterable
From 1 comment
We use Segment->Vero as our main automated email marketing flow (~5M emails per month so not huge, we use Sendgrid via Vero to actually send the emails). We're looking to change…
mousetree on HN