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kehers

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Lover of beautiful things. http://obem.be/opeyemi
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kehers··on My notes on Gitlab's Postgres schema design (2022)
One good argument I found [^1] about not exposing primary keys is that primary keys may change (during system/db change) and you want to ensure users have a consistent way of accessing data.

[^1]: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2183...

kehers··on Show HN: Mailready – meet the new email deliverability standards
Thanks for this. Will fix.
kehers··on Sinch to acquire Mailgun
It's not the same as what Mailgun does. Mailgun lets you send emails programmatically. Sendy/Sendwithses lets you send campaigns from an interface (using your SES).
kehers··on Ask HN: Where are all the old Show HNs?
I think a better route is getting someone to handle the marketing. As engineers, even when we know what to do in terms of marketing, we still find it hard to do because it's not something we enjoy like engineering.
kehers··on Show HN: Forlater.email – an email-based bookmarking service
I'd rather recommend using a cheaper service like Amazon SES than running your own mail server. Email deliverability is complex and figuring it out may not be worth it.
kehers··on Mail for Good
Plug: If anyone is looking for a way to use RSS for their newsletters instead of getting it in their inbox, see http://myrss.email/
kehers··on Ask HN: Do Mailchimp/Drip etc. offer deliverability advantages over AWS SES?
Delivery advantage? I doubt. In the background, some of these tools use AWS SES/Mailgun/Sendgrid. (I know Convertkit use to use Mailgun for sending).

However, it's that they can help with handling the bulk sending properly especially with queuing and scheduling.

Re: link tracking, I believe you can always turn this off. Even for open tracking. Explore the settings and you should find where.

kehers··on Ask HN: Best current mailing list manager?
+1 for Mailgun.
kehers··on Show HN: Kanmail – An email client that functions like a kanban board
Also, this: https://imapapi.com/
kehers··on Message-ID Issue with Mailgun Batch Sending API?
Send a support mail to Mailgun and hear what they have to say about it. You can also consider using their mailing list option: https://documentation.mailgun.com/en/latest/api-mailinglists...
kehers··on Mining my mailbox for top email service providers
Yup
kehers··on Mining my mailbox for top email service providers
This is nice. Shows a different approach to getting the ESP from the mail header.
kehers··on Mining my mailbox for top email service providers
Yes, for the mailbox I ran it on. I'll like to see someone do this on a "business" mailbox
kehers··on Mining my mailbox for top email service providers
Yes it's intentionally as Mandrill is still used solely for transactional emails and Mailchimp for marketing. Same reason I didn't merge Mailgun and Mailjet.
kehers··on Show HN: Email to RSS
Updated. People can now signup and give it a spin before deciding to subscribe.
kehers··on Show HN: Email to RSS
Thanks for the feedback. Actually makes sense. The target is for newsletters so no attachment support, spam filtering (for now) and access to full email headers (no RSS element this will fit in).
kehers··on Show HN: Analytics, reporting and BI for transactional emails and campaigns
I actually started it as opensource but maintenance and monetisation was difficult. The source is still a good start point to build anything off Amazon SES/Mailgun analytics https://github.com/suetco/suet
kehers··on Show HN: Your new “what I'm up to” page
Thanks a lot for the feedback!! I will do that!
kehers··on Ask HN: Project is inexplicably receiving millions of hits. What would you do?
Advertise your other projects on the site? (ekko.site for example). You an also build pro features that people can pay for; allowing creating custom endpoints and responses for example. You need to be sure people it will be what people want though.
kehers··on Ask HN: How to come up with monetizable side project ideas?
Getting on the front page of PH is not easy.
kehers··on Ask HN: Where do you buy static website templates?
http://creativemarket.com
kehers··on Ask HN: Whats your digest/newsfeed like? What do you read?
I built an aggregator that pulls links from my Twitter feed https://thefeed.press
kehers··on Ask HN: What’s your list of sideprojects?
https://suet.co (https://github.com/kehers/suet) - Detailed analytics and reporting for Mailgun transactional emails.
kehers··on Ask HN: Anyone using NLP to tag sentences?
IBM Watson: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/natural-language-u...
kehers··on Ask HN: How much did you sell your startup for?
>I really want to keep running it.

Is the buyer planning to shut it down? Or you mean you enjoy running it.

kehers··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
An analytics dashboard and reporting tool for Mailgun transactional emails

https://suet.co/

kehers··on Ask HN: Have you open sourced your software and still made money?
There are a couple of ways to make money from OSS. My fav is having a paid managed version. Ghost[1] and Discourse[2] are good examples of this. (I am using the same model for a personal project [3]). See https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand for more ways.

[1] http://ghost.org [2] http://discourse.org [3] http://suet.co

kehers··on Ask HN: Are you using MongoDB? If yes, are you a paying customer or open source?
Opensource
kehers··on Ask HN: Best way to sell unused domain names?
undeveloped.com flippa.com
kehers··on Ask HN: What is everyone currently working on?
Thanks.
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