jaredstenquist

I tried adding one of my domains (read.io), but having to create DNS records for every domain I own is a huge pain.

I'm building a similar service now, which automates everything through WHOIS and DNS resolution. The feedback on this post has actually been really helpful.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

I agree with many that this is very well done. I would like to see some usability tests to see if there would be as much confusion as I expect.

Without great experiments like these, there would be no progression. Kudos to Ken.

Was this recent? If not, how did the advice turn out?

As a side benefit, this showed me that Symfony has a really nice trace output. I wish Codeigniter had this.

nobody is interested in garbage. that's why garbage trucks come by once per week.

This is a great concept. I've been a long time user of PostmarkApp, which has served me extremely well, but requires a lot of coding time to create and deploy new emails. If you've ever created HTML emails, you know the pain I'm talking about.

My only concern is the deliverability, but I'm intrigued enough to give it a try seeing as how there's a free tier.

Agreed. I certainly encourage seatbelt use as I saw far more people saved by using them than not.

At one point we got to a streak of 8 or 9 rollovers with no injuries whatsoever. If the occupants were not wearing seat belts I can say for certain that streak would have ended earlier.

On a positive note, the number of automobile fatalities each year has been on a steady decline.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...

(former firefighter) I would look to local and state police for their reports. Any fatal accident with a possibility of foul play, or obvious foul play (DUI, etc) resulted in us assisting the State Police reconstruction team while they processed the scene, measuring and photographing everything to the millimeter, because once we cleaned it up, there was no going back.

That said, I've also seen plenty of crazy vehicle accidents, including fires, many of which are hard to explain how they could have happened. For example, a car where the entire drivers side was smashed into the back seat from driving into a telephone pole. The driver's survival story? "Thank god i wasn't wearing a seatbelt and my car had a bench seat"... She moved over at the last second.

Seatbelts don't always save lives...

One server? Not much redundancy in that setup. It's no wonder your costs are so low.

no downtime for http://read.io

Since this feature is backed by a bank (FDIC backed bank no doubt) I assume it has the same protection as any other transfer and that the backing-bank is actually shouldering the risk.

I had the opposite experience. I used them for years and received prompt support, even getting direct to a sysadmin over the phone. I also regularly received up to 50% off their advertised prices just by doing a little negotiating.

Of course I say all this as an AWS customer, as the value flexibility far outweighed the value of support to me. Also, the last time I checked, You had to go through a standard server ordering form process to get a cloud server up and running.

I built something thing like this using Twillio for my Caller ID test tool. Visiting the site creates a unique pin number and you have to call in and enter it.

http://www.calleridtest.com

Twillio makes the development of things like this a breeze.

It didn't work with 5 paragraphs of lorem ipsum. There was no error from the site to tell me it was too long. It needs some basic validation

or tit.io, but I just decided to buy it.

Excellent work. I love the style and simplicity. It will certainly be used in my future projects.

Title changed again for this post? It should clearly say this is a link to promote their fundraising. There is no actual way to try this service.

Yup, angels and VCs operate quite differently. Same experience here.

You know what they say about poor decisions. They're made every day.

Downtown Boston. Please. I'm paying $1,500/m for a 50x50mbps primary and $350/m for a 100x10mbps backup. The alterative is DSL from version at 1Mbps peak, or a T1 - 1.5mbps for $500/m.

We need something new in this old city of copper.

Thanks for checking it out. I appreciate any feedback. A few notes:

- I created this to solve my own problem: reports at my company that our caller id wasn't displaying properly and no easy way to troubleshoot since our landlines/cells already have our name programmed into them.

- Very little testing done. MVP style out of the gate.

- Built with php/mysql/jquery + twillio API

- I don't love using the CAPTCHA, but needed some way to ensure i don't rack up endless costs initially.

I did not get an amber alert, and I am in Boston. Maybe due to the cell signal jamming to stop any additional detonations. I had to call family from Google Voice on my laptop to get in touch. Pretty crazy

What is high and what is low is of course speculative.

When investing in the stock market I of course use that basic logic by analyzing the KPIs of the securities. This was less of an investment and more of an experiment in modern technology, prompted by some skeptical comments from my friends. For that reason it was more like purchasing a lottery ticket.

My $1000 lottery ticket didn't perform well, but due to my real investments paying off well over the years, I can handle the loss without much thought. Win some. Lose some.

The rising price just makes me laugh. I "invested" $1,000 in BTC during the early hype as it was approaching $32.00. I told my co-workers how cool of a concept it was and that my investment was sure to pay off with a skyrocketing price.

After months and months the price drops and drops. My $1,000 is worth $200. I go through a ridiculously long process of proving my identity to Mt. Gox and Dwolla just to get real USD back at 1/5 their original value.

Now if only I had kept it in there for the long haul, I'd have my $1,000 back.

It's precisely this volatility that personally makes me skeptical of it truly reaching a critical mass of any sort.

In my case, we're VC backed, heads down working on product. I love rolling my own for most infrastructure, but when you get into managing groups, aliases, password changes, SPF, DKIM, Webmail etc... for 30+ people, it quickly becomes a major time suck. I strongly believe in spending reasonable money to outsource anything like this.

This of course assumes you aren't worried about Google/M$ reading every email and stealing your trade secrets...

Puts on tinfoil hat

For those with custom domain names... $20/year vs $60/year for Google Apps. Ads or not, thats a compelling savings for my many pet projects where I only need 1 or 2 @projectname.com mailboxes.

It's a shame that Google Apps got rid of the free tier. I've started 2 businesses on the free tier (< 10 accounts) and now pay around $200/month for each company as they have grown.

Now Microsoft will gain some ground in the email arena.

Love the irony!

Paypal has no incentive here. They can just float the cash and earn a small % on it. Do it to enough people and you understand how they make a lot of money.

or a .zip containing a .dmg, which is often the case.