Hacker News Reader

Great idea - trying to get my feet wet with stocks again (Played with them briefly, with minor profits during school) and this seems like a fun way to give it a go.

Curious: what do you use for email notifications for signups and other transactions done on the site?

View on HN

Right now we're not doing anything special. We just send the emails from the server as we need to. A lot of the emails are set up as nightly jobs which we queue up in a DB before we send.

Ah, thanks for the heads up.

I asked because I'm the Product Manager of PostageApp, and we specialize on those sorts of emails. Let me know if you'd be interested in giving our app a whirl, it takes the headaches of deliverability out of your hair. :)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com