chrisfrantz

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by chrisfrantz 21d ago
PLG is hard. Very few companies can actually do it well. It demands an excellent product bar, compounding growth and both of those teams actually work with each other instead of against. Series A starts the treadmill. Now you have compoundi
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Loops (YC W22) Is Hiring a Product Educator(ycombinator.com)
1 points by chrisfrantz 2mo ago
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Shortlinks to YouTube are being flagged as spam in Gmail(loops.so)
5 points by chrisfrantz 8mo ago|1 comments
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by chrisfrantz 8mo ago
Full article is there but to avoid triggering Gmail’s spam filters: either disable link tracking on YouTube share links, or use the full YouTube link instead.
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by chrisfrantz 9mo ago
Chrome, latest stable
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by chrisfrantz 9mo ago
Love that this exists now, thank you and nice read. FWIW, didn't have any luck with the generator at the bottom, could be user error.
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by chrisfrantz 9mo ago
This is where I believe we are headed as well. Frontier models "curate" and provide guardrails, very fast and competent agents do the work at incredibly high throughput. Once frontier hits cracks the "taste" barrier and
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Migrating to AWS in production with zero downtime(loops.so)
4 points by chrisfrantz 1y ago|1 comments
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by chrisfrantz 1y ago
We reached some amount of early product-market fit and the “starter” stack that served us well early on: Vercel functions, Supabase Postgres, and a mix of queue services, started hitting limits. Function runtimes capped at 15 min, cron jobs
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Unlimited Transactional Email Sending(loops.so)
1 points by chrisfrantz 2y ago|2 comments
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by chrisfrantz 2y ago
We released an update to our pricing at Loops and along with increasing free limits, we made transactional email sending available at no additional cost on any paid plan. We removed our previous plan tier of $1 per 2,000 sends. Example: You
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by chrisfrantz 2y ago
We recently did some work improving our email deliverability to large institutions that use Rspamd as part of their corporate firewall, this is our write-up on that experience.
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A Deep Dive into Rspamd(loops.so)
4 points by chrisfrantz 2y ago|1 comments
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by chrisfrantz 2y ago
A couple years in, we’re still building Loops (loops.so), email for software companies.
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by chrisfrantz 2y ago
Congrats Dima and team, it's been cool watching you build this over the last couple of years.
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Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?
56 points by chrisfrantz 2y ago|41 comments
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by chrisfrantz 2y ago
I use this daily, great resource.
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by chrisfrantz 3y ago
Oh nice! Glad to see this launched, congrats to the Zenfetch team, been following for a while :)
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Show HN: I built a tool that diagnoses your email deliverability(bounce.doctor)
4 points by chrisfrantz 3y ago|0 comments
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by chrisfrantz 3y ago
This was an interesting read, thanks >the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report states "It is very unlikely that gas clathrates (mostly methane) in deeper terrestrial permafrost and subsea clathrates will lead to a detectable departure from
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by chrisfrantz 3y ago
I do think that the potential behind GPT-4V is a bit understated right now. Obviously, roasting emails is not the best use case but there are some really exciting ones I'm interested in seeing other folks build. Highly recommend checki
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Show HN: Get you emails roasted by the new GPT-4 Vision API(roast.email)
1 points by chrisfrantz 3y ago|1 comments
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by chrisfrantz 3y ago
With filters you should be able to do it pretty easily assuming you have the data in Loops already. Always ways we could improve though!
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by chrisfrantz 3y ago
Hey thanks Kyle! We'll follow up on the API feedback separately, but you're welcome to trigger with either. We break down the differences here: https://loops.so/docs/loop-builder/loop-triggers#trigger-fre
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by chrisfrantz 3y ago
Yep it’s great feedback! You can pretty easily slim down your contact count to follow that active user model if you’d like already :)
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by chrisfrantz 3y ago
Thanks for the detailed feedback! We find that users start their company, use us for everything then never have to think about how to contact their users. Requiring a bring your own solution is great for more mature businesses but we’re tar
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by chrisfrantz 3y ago
You could remove those contacts and not be charged for them however if you only email someone once that started a trial account you’re doing your business a disservice in our experience.
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by chrisfrantz 3y ago
Yep all pricing is available when you click “view all pricing tiers” on the primary highlighted card. Sorry that wasn’t more clear!
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by chrisfrantz 3y ago
Agreed, will rework pricing after this. You can click “View all pricing tiers” on the pricing page but it should really be visible. Will fix!
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by chrisfrantz 3y ago
Thanks for using Loops!

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