Hacker News Reader

Comment by chadyj | Hacker News Reader

Wow that was quick. The site hasn't even been online for 24 hours yet.

I created Sendicate and if there are questions I'd be happy to answer.

Apparently if you ask for questions, what you get is critiques. I'll keep up the pattern. :)

This phrase struck me as out of sync with the style: "we have focused on creating compelling templates that drive influence." It's jargon-y, and the jargon is slightly creepy, at least the way all advertising talk is slightly creepy when it gets too specific about what it's trying to do. It's less about people [who] matter to me, and more about people who matter because they can be manipulated into doing something I want. I would suggest you think about how the phrase "drive influence" makes you feel, and then take out anything else in your site that makes you feel the same way. (Or go for whatever crowd you're going for that isn't me.)

Aside from that, I agree with another commenter that if your template design is what makes you special, I'd like to see some example emails before signing up. The world is too full of web startups to create an account for every one that claims to be better than MailChimp.

Anyway, thanks for your work -- looks like an awesome start.

Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I originally wrote "results" in place of "influence" but that sounded overused. I do believe that emails with better content, better design, and better accessibility will drive more visibility (and opens/clicks/etc), and that is what I was aiming for with influence. If you want your email to be seen and read then a focus on content and design will go a long way. I'll rethink how to express that better.

Also yes, totally agree on showing more templates. When the public beta opens there will be a handful for customers to play with, and we do intend to do something that stands out, and especially hoping that the community gets involved too.

One thing you might want to look at: slight font issues on Windows. http://i.imgur.com/JukcS.png

(Win7, Chrome)

Thanks we noticed that too. Will be pushing out a fix shortly.

The Lorem Ipsum example sucks for two reasons:

A) It's at the bottom B) No one will relate to it

The first thing I wanted to see when opening the site and reading "Beautiful emails to people that matter" was examples of those beautiful emails. Put examples to the top, and show "real life" examples, not Lorem Ipsum.

Otherwise, cool idea. Congrats on the beta launch and good luck!

I agree. I am anti Lorem Ipsum but it is a placeholder for the time being.

We have some amazing templates that are part of the beta that are as beautiful and flexible as a lot of the Tumblr themes. The theme syntax is actually very similar too. Here is a draft https://github.com/Sendicate/sendicate-theme-docs

Nice site. One suggestion:

“Simply send beautiful emails to people _who_ matter.

Both are technically correct, but "who" is usually preferred when referring to people. Plus it feels more personal :)

Just thought I'd let you know that whenever you navigate to the login page (http://sendicate.net/login) a notification at the top of the page pops out and tells me I've signed out successfully, but I don't even have an account yet.

I'm viewing this from Chrome, in case that matters.

-tpt

Thanks. That is fixed in the next release.

Using "beautiful" and "matters" is such a cliché. I mean it might work, but I feel like I'm looking at a corporate out of touch ad not a small personal human company.

Remember, it's not what you play or how you play, it's how you feel about what you play.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com