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by bialecki 11y ago
Been thinking about / working on the email design problem for a long time. Email is a great medium with a startling lack of good design tools. Here are the features I look for in an WYSIWYG email builder: * Drag and drop with common co
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by bialecki 12y ago
It's only a matter of time until someone open sources an editor like this or, probably more useful more most people, creates a service that embeds an email editor like this in your app. It'll be interesting to see how much adoptio
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by bialecki 12y ago
Email supports multiple MIME types, so if someone sends you an HTML email, they should also be converting that HTML into a text representation as well so you can choose (or your email client can choose) which version you want to read. Conve
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by bialecki 12y ago
I'm sure other people are wondering the same thing, so a quick take. The problem is not if you're counting one thing (or even 100). The problem is when you want analytics and you want it to scale to 1,000s or 1,000,000s of counter
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by bialecki 13y ago
We need a good feedback mechanism. Of the major forms of advertising (TV, radio, web, mobile), which allow you to respond to the ads? None so far. But I don't think it'll be that way for long.
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by bialecki 13y ago
If for some reason you can't or don't want to implement webhooks, at least make sure you the GET endpoint for any object has a query param that supports fetching the most recently updated or created objects and supports paginati
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by bialecki 13y ago
Ridiculous and sad are the two emotions that come to mind. I've run the Boston Marathon and plan on running again next year (want to re-qualify, but will likely run with a charity anyway). I grew up close to the route and have spent pretty
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by bialecki 14y ago
The pricing will probably change, but the reason we're charging at all is to ensure we can provide reliability.
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by bialecki 14y ago
We're not trying to compete with them, we're using them. They solved the hard problems of delivering email, we're just trying to make it easier to send good looking emails through them.
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by bialecki 14y ago
From the sound of it, I'm guessing they're similar, but I haven't had a chance to use Mandrill's templates. This started as an internal API we created and just decided to open up. Our templates use a Django-like syntax, which let's you use
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Show HN: API for Rendering and Sending Transactional Email Templates(klaviyo.com)
13 points by bialecki 14y ago|6 comments
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by bialecki 14y ago
If you're looking for another free service that's kinda in between Tag Manager and Segment.io, we built "Add This Script" ( https://www.addthisscript.com/ ) that lets you choose from more than just analytics scripts so you can include jQuer
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by bialecki 14y ago
You might want to check out our service, Klaviyo, and specifically https://www.klaviyo.com/features/integrations . We do exactly what you're describing around connecting your data with data from the all services you use. I definitely think
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by bialecki 14y ago
Quick thoughts from an active runner (70-80 miles/wk): - Figuring out when my shoes wear down is not, IMO, a big problem. I can look at the soles and tell or I know after about 500 miles it's time to switch it up. - That said, it is incredi
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by bialecki 14y ago
Tangent: One of my favorite classes in college was one that taught physics only at the level of order of magnitudes. It'd tackle questions like: Why is nuclear power more efficient than coal? How much more efficient? and then sought to answ
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by bialecki 14y ago
We probably should. You'll notice there's no pricing link in the header. That was our quick hack for this launch. ;)
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by bialecki 14y ago
Sorry, I think there's some confusion (you're not the first person). This tool is just to create the HTML. Our subscription email service allows you to send email, but the email creator is just for creating templates. Basically we took a fe
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by bialecki 14y ago
We're working on it. We wanted to allow for saving, so that's why we ask for an email.
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Show HN: Drag/Drop Email Template Creator for Transactional Emails(klaviyo.com)
34 points by bialecki 14y ago|16 comments
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by bialecki 14y ago
I'd be more focused on the personalization database Amazon is building/has built. There will be a market for "I need it now" but the larger opportunity is answering the question, "What do I need?" Luckily for smaller businesses, they can co
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by bialecki 14y ago
It's going to get better, this whole thing is still very early. Two things we focus on at Klaviyo to make taking all the data you have more useful: 1. Come up with the questions first, then decide what data you need to answer them. It's so
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by bialecki 14y ago
At least two years ago, most campaigns were using systems built by their respective parties, which were tightly integrated with their own voter databases. Things may have changed, but having a sibling working a big senate campaign this elec
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by bialecki 14y ago
Also keep in mind that learning to "organize your data for fetching" is not necessarily something you can do before you start your project. Many (most?) times you can't predict which data access patterns will be most common and benefit from
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by bialecki 14y ago
What about the LinkedIn app? Don't they use a lot of HTML(5) in their app? Facebook just happens to be a big company that said HTML5 didn't work for them. For all we know they designed it wrong/optimized in the wrong way. Saying web apps on
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by bialecki 14y ago
Oops, misspelled the domain. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by bialecki 14y ago
Very interesting. I started a service like this a few months ago called Add This Script ( http://www.addthisscript.com/ ). Collecting marketing/ad tracking scripts is just one use case for something like this (although it's likely the most
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by bialecki 14y ago
I'm torn. On the one hand It's frustrating "major" tech new sites are now feature announcements for selected companies. On the other hand, this is a big problem. I do want a feed of cool new tech, but I guess I'd rather get it from the hors
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by bialecki 14y ago
Listening to Steve talk, he's very upfront that there is no blueprint for creating a successful business/startup. His advice is not meant to be taken as "here's a list of steps, do them, and you'll be successful." His advice is more like a
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Ask HN: Given IFTTT, is Zapier affected and how should I forward tweets?
4 points by bialecki 14y ago|1 comments
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by bialecki 14y ago
Random idea given that the header is "Backlift Blog." Why not make those two separate links that change color/opacity/something on hover where "Backlift" links to the home page and "Blog" links to the blog. I don't think it'd be confusing a

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