Ask HN: What is your startup email solution?
I am curious to know what you guys use for your startup email solution.
I am currently considering moving to AWS, and possibly using their Amazon SES. However I see that there are other alternatives like mailgun.com or sendgrid.com
what would be the advantage of using 3rd party solution vs in house Amazon SES? I see that the pricing is pretty similar and I am leaning towards using SES, but I would like to hear opinions.
Thank you. I'm using Mandrill for transactional email, and will most likely start using Mailjet for email campaigns. I believe that Mandrill etc give a better deliverability compared to SES. Can you please share more of your experience regarding deliverability of various services? I'm somewhat surprised to hear SES can be surpassed in this department. I only tested SendGrid and Mandrill for transactional email. I switched off SendGrid after seeing quite a bit of gmail owners got their email sent into spam (but I believe they fixed the issue). I use DKIM/SPF with Mandrill and nobody mentioned a spam issue since then. On SES: I cannot find back the precise article I was thinking about right now (a benchmark if I remember well), these are just my memories. I use SES with DKIM and SPF. It's fast, cheap and I've never had a single email go to spam. We were using campaignmonitor.com until we found out about sendy.co Sendy uses SES to send the emails on our behalf - so far so good - we do a weekend update to about 1500 address (so far) and it's worked quite well. Someday I'll script something to dumb the current user email list into sendy so I don't have to export it to csv and reimport it every weekend... I asked a similar question recently Thanks for the info. I searched earlier before post, but I can not find it. Not sure how HN search engine actually works... :(