[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":344},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-7228604":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":44,"post_text":46,"what":47,"said":92,"maker_in_thread":209,"shape":211,"grid":216,"attempts":305,"same_week":306,"maker_shows":45,"maker_hidden":335,"reader_version":336,"card":337},"7228604","Email Templating API","Email templating API for transactional emails, moved out of source code","ai","Show HN: Email Templating API","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.sendwithus.com\u002Fdevelopers","sendwithus.com","nbrempel",1392252684,2014,38,40,832,2272,37,"shown","web_saas","transactional email templating","api",[24,25,26,27],"email templates","transactional email","email api","a\u002Fb testing email","curious",-0.011,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":31},7,21,0,35,{"docs":36,"pricing":38,"design":40,"idea":41,"execution":43},{"positive":37,"critical":37},1,{"positive":33,"critical":39},3,{"positive":37,"critical":33},{"positive":39,"critical":42},2,{"positive":33,"critical":37},[33,39,37,39,37,45,39,45,37,39,45,37,39,39,39,39,39,45,45,39,33,33,33,39,39,45,33,45,37,39,39,39,39,37,39,39,39,39,39,37],5,null,{"problem":48,"audience":59,"pricing":66,"motivation":75,"time_to_build":46,"stack":79,"openness":89,"stage":90,"team_size":91},{"value":49,"source":50,"evidence":51},"Product email templates are hard to change and test when they live in source code","commenter",[52,56],{"id":53,"by":54,"text":55},"7229664","mrmch","Hey Christian, valid feedback. As a product\u002Fbusiness scales, small problems of modifying templates (and AB testing, etc) get magnified, and in house solutions don't scale.",{"id":57,"by":54,"text":58},"7230243","Yep, that's the exact workflow we're replacing! Think of the experience for the marketing guy -- after those changes are committed, how can he measure what affect they had?",{"value":60,"source":50,"evidence":61},"Developers and marketing teams sending transactional email",[62,65],{"id":63,"by":54,"text":64},"7229320","That's pretty cool Denis. We don't have an official .Net client yet, but we do have some solid code samples for our REST API. In our experience email templates are a little…",{"id":57,"by":54,"text":58},{"value":67,"source":50,"evidence":68},"Tiered by active users (recipients per month), no credit card required to sign up",[69,72],{"id":70,"by":54,"text":71},"7228823","An active user is someone you've sent an email to in a given month, regardless of volume. So you could send 10,000 emails to 1,000 unique email addresses and you're billed for…",{"id":73,"by":54,"text":74},"7230309","Thanks for the feedback, and woo +1 future customer :) Our developers page is really new, so there's definite room for improvement. 1+2 definitely need a look tonight. 3. The UI…",{"value":76,"source":50,"evidence":77},"Scaling products make in-house email template solutions hard to maintain",[78],{"id":53,"by":54,"text":55},[80],{"value":81,"source":50,"evidence":82},"Mailgun or SES used for delivery",[83,86],{"id":84,"by":54,"text":85},"7228827","Hi Kulte, we support SES for delivery right now!",{"id":87,"by":54,"text":88},"7229094","Thanks Frank! The reason we tier on customers is that we sit on top of an esp like Mailgun, which already bill per transaction.","unknown","launched","company",{"praise":93,"objections":109,"requests":138,"questions":169,"alternatives":182},[94,102],{"value":95,"source":50,"evidence":96},"Responsive templates included and good customer service",[97,98],{"id":73,"by":54,"text":74},{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"7236652","jrpt","As a customer, SendWithUs has great customer service. I signed up for SendWithUs and had a problem integrating it with my email sender. They helped me fix the issue and were…",{"value":103,"source":50,"evidence":104},"Useful middle ground between Mailgun and enterprise email tools",[105],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"7228907","securingsincity","I think this is idea is the perfect middle ground product between what mail gun offers and what something like constant contact would offer. 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