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From Show HN to Funding In Less Than 3 Months

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Looks very similar to https://www.postmaster.io/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4598818

And then from HN Funding to Internal 500 Server Error in less than 42 minutes :p http://i.imgur.com/LxtdhqA.png

hahah, oops, we'll work on that. Thanks

One thing I'm always curious about is how you gauge success after a post on HN.

While I understand there are variables for every business, I literally have nothing to use as a gauge other than my own experiences.

So if you don't mind my asking, how many emails did you guys receive from being posted on HN?

This looks interesting but from this website I can't really distill what this service does, as in, what problem does it solve for me? Something with post and parcels etc. but it might be good to add a problem/solution section to your home page.

We make it easier to get postage via API. Existing postage APIs are difficult to integrate and have lots of errors. We take care of that and provide a RESTful JSON API with client libraries.

Congrats! How long did you spend build EasyPost before doing the initial Sep. 18th launch?

EDIT: On a feedback note, 5% or less is very vague on the pricing page... Why not explain a bit further the upper and lower limits?

Thanks, spent several months working on it.

We're launching a pricing page shortly!

I don't know why, but for some reason middle-clicking on a link does nothing on your page (instead of opening the URL on a new tab). I'm using Firefox.

is this happening on all links or a few specific links? I am looking for the cause and I can't see any reason why this wouldn't work.

Firefox / Windows 8.

It only appears to impact the blog post. If I go to your home page, middle clicking works as expected.

Also, I'm getting a character encoding glitch that's rendering gibberish next to your login button.

One last thing: it also looks like Tumblr is adding stuff to the top of your HTML. On the blog, I see two doctype declarations; one's on the first line, and one's at the very end of the second line.

The problem is there for almost all links. I noticed that Disqus links work fine.

EDIT: The problem doesn't occur if I disable Javascript.

Hey, not sure but we'll look into this. Thanks

This is an interesting concept. I wonder what other physical processes could do with an API?

Potentially, you could buy a digital printer and create an API for physical mail. It could effectively change the direct marketing industry.

Do you mean a fax machine?

I think he means where you send HTML (or a PDF) to a web service that does a mail merge, prints & bulk mails it for you. I had exactly the same thought as a logical next step when I saw this.

Think of a print on demand web service for sending physical mail. You might even be able to do things like print it near the destination to take advantage of lower shipping rates.

I agree, there's lots in the online/offline chasm that could be filled

What happened to your original domain of easypost.co?

We pushed everything over to geteasypost.com. Why? You liked the old one better?

No, either one is fine, but it seemed DOA when I clicked on the title of the Ask HN post.

Yeah, it was down for a bit due to a DNS issue (provide, not ours). Thanks

Congrats, and thanks for the post and example of what a well-described product can achieve. What's interesting to me is that OP had no actual alpha/beta product, just: "a simple bootstrap site with an email form and code samples (which I mimicked based on Stripe’s)." The Show HN simply brought feedback and signups and a week later an investor made contact.

In the three months between the investor contact and actual funding, how much of your planned feature set had you implemented?

Thanks! We had most of what we planned to have done by that time. We fully launched a month later.

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