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I'm a happy jQuery/Bootstrap user @ https://forwardemail.net https://forwardemail.net. The site scores ~100% on Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights and is ranked

I'm a happy jQuery/Bootstrap user @ https://forwardemail.net https://forwardemail.net. The site scores ~100% on Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights and is ranked #1. Open-startup @ https://forwardemail.net/open-startup https://forwardemail.net/open-startup! Completely open-source too @ https://github.com/forwardemail https://github.com/forwardemail

tluyben2 6y ago
Offtopic but thanks for launching this. A happy customer.
- niftylettuce 6y ago
  Very glad to have you Tycho.
spiderfarmer 6y ago
Yes but if you’re not using the latest JS framework how do you get girls.
- pqdbr 6y ago
  This. I was a happy Rails dev but html over the wire wasn’t cutting it at the club anymore. So I had to switch to React and now I’m married. Just kidding. My wife loves Rails.
  - rubyist5eva 6y ago
    Jokes on you, html over the wire is HOT NEW SH*T. https://hotwire.dev/ https://hotwire.dev/
    - nirav72 6y ago
      server-side blazor does similar.
      - rubyist5eva 6y ago
        never checked out web dev with dotnet, but maybe I will check out blazor I keep hearing cool things
- megous 6y ago
  You get a girl by going places where girls congregate at a similar or higher percentage to guys. Took me a while to figure that out... Anyway, I understand sarcasm, too.
- hnrodey 6y ago
  Upvote. Made me literal lol.
Sulamitachica 6y ago
Nice open start up page! Congrats on success, will be signing up for the free plan with my domain!
Johnny87 6y ago
Wow 15k??? That's impressive. I use another email forwarder but haven't been happy with it, maybe I'll switch.
WORMS_EAT_WORMS 6y ago
Super cool. I really like that you can also reply using this service to each individual inbox. Like a universal inbox but not married to any specific client/app. Maybe suggest making that a little more easier to learn on your marketing homepage. For your current users, are you seeing them use this more like the demo gym owner video or for other use cases? Thanks
- niftylettuce 6y ago
  So many cases. Some are using this on hundreds of sub-domains. I hope to launch SMTP and regex support soon. Then... it has final form, power level over 9000.
thesimon 6y ago
Do you use automatic translation? At least the German version feels a bit odd.
- niftylettuce 6y ago
  Yeah, Google Translate via the npm package "mandarin" I made @ https://www.npmjs.com/package/mandarin https://www.npmjs.com/package/mandarin. I planned to hire curators to go through the JSON files and clean it up - though I'm incredibly surprised that open source contributors have come forward (sometimes for their first time doing a PR) to submit fixes to locales. I give them free service for several years for their help.
mehphp 6y ago
From your FAQ > No. Prices will never increase. Unlike other companies, we will never shutdown our service either. How can you guarantee this?
- xeromal 6y ago
  There are only two ways I think this can work. Their price completely covers every user signed up at any scale. If they lose all but 1 customer, that customer can keep the lights with just their subscription. The other is that company has such a large warchest it'd be impossible to run out of money.
  - niftylettuce 6y ago
    I would not start this business if I could not keep it going. Period. Even beyond my lifetime. I keep things simple - when I started I had so many struggles, and wish something like this existed. I have contingency plans in place if something happens. My philosophy is outlined in the documentation for Lad.

tluyben2 6y ago

Offtopic but thanks for launching this. A happy customer.

niftylettuce 6y ago
Very glad to have you Tycho.

spiderfarmer 6y ago

Yes but if you’re not using the latest JS framework how do you get girls.

pqdbr 6y ago
This. I was a happy Rails dev but html over the wire wasn’t cutting it at the club anymore. So I had to switch to React and now I’m married. Just kidding. My wife loves Rails.
- rubyist5eva 6y ago
  Jokes on you, html over the wire is HOT NEW SH*T. https://hotwire.dev/ https://hotwire.dev/
  - nirav72 6y ago
    server-side blazor does similar.
    - rubyist5eva 6y ago
      never checked out web dev with dotnet, but maybe I will check out blazor I keep hearing cool things
megous 6y ago
You get a girl by going places where girls congregate at a similar or higher percentage to guys. Took me a while to figure that out... Anyway, I understand sarcasm, too.
hnrodey 6y ago
Upvote. Made me literal lol.

Sulamitachica 6y ago

Nice open start up page! Congrats on success, will be signing up for the free plan with my domain!

Johnny87 6y ago

Wow 15k??? That's impressive. I use another email forwarder but haven't been happy with it, maybe I'll switch.

WORMS_EAT_WORMS 6y ago

Super cool. I really like that you can also reply using this service to each individual inbox. Like a universal inbox but not married to any specific client/app. Maybe suggest making that a little more easier to learn on your marketing homepage. For your current users, are you seeing them use this more like the demo gym owner video or for other use cases? Thanks

niftylettuce 6y ago
So many cases. Some are using this on hundreds of sub-domains. I hope to launch SMTP and regex support soon. Then... it has final form, power level over 9000.

thesimon 6y ago

Do you use automatic translation? At least the German version feels a bit odd.

niftylettuce 6y ago
Yeah, Google Translate via the npm package "mandarin" I made @ https://www.npmjs.com/package/mandarin https://www.npmjs.com/package/mandarin. I planned to hire curators to go through the JSON files and clean it up - though I'm incredibly surprised that open source contributors have come forward (sometimes for their first time doing a PR) to submit fixes to locales. I give them free service for several years for their help.

mehphp 6y ago

From your FAQ > No. Prices will never increase. Unlike other companies, we will never shutdown our service either. How can you guarantee this?

xeromal 6y ago
There are only two ways I think this can work. Their price completely covers every user signed up at any scale. If they lose all but 1 customer, that customer can keep the lights with just their subscription. The other is that company has such a large warchest it'd be impossible to run out of money.
- niftylettuce 6y ago
  I would not start this business if I could not keep it going. Period. Even beyond my lifetime. I keep things simple - when I started I had so many struggles, and wish something like this existed. I have contingency plans in place if something happens. My philosophy is outlined in the documentation for Lad.