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In my experience everyone appreciates lower prices - and good senders should be rewarded with lower prices.

If you allow spammers on your network things get a lot more expensive. So you can't offer low prices and allow low-quality senders. That's why we have a strict AUP and aggressive measures to detect spammers, phishers, and non-permission (aka cold-outreach) messages.

Most do have email industry expertise. But for whatever reason email infrastructure expertise seems to be a dying breed with most providers pushing their infrastructure into major cloud providers. It has its benefits, but its costs too - and those get passed on to you. Our background has been in email infrastructure (managing it ourselves instead of paying a 3rd party to do it and sticking you with the bill).

Fair question. Here are a few reasons:

- Pricing wins against pretty much any provider (and is an order of magnitude lower than many incumbents). - Especially when compared to SES, we're a dev-friendly, fully modern sending platform and we don't require you to glue a bunch of services together. - We're self funded from previous acquisitions in the space. We're focused on good customer outcomes instead of investor outcomes. - We have a pretty cool templating platform that allows you to write simple markdown instead of convoluted email-compatible HTML.

Agreed. Our team's background is in deliverability. Our last startup was a deliverability company founded in 2014, grew to ~20,000 paying customers, and sold in 2020 so we know the space very well and have built Anypost around those best practices. Also happy to provide guidance to anyone who needs help with it. I can go into any specifics if interested.

[dead] 14 years ago

The astounding number of devs asking "who cares?" sums up one of my biggest pet peeves. Would you buy a car that had a modern engine but a chassis and interior from 1983? Maybe if you wanted to save a few bucks - but your friends would still tease you for owning an old clunker.

True, Python is a beautiful language that's stayed modern in the face of the evolving web, and I've come across many Python sites that do look really slick. But if the face of the Python community tends to lean towards the look and feel of 1997 Geocities pages, where are new developers going to flock? If you care about your community you should foster it by showcasing the fact that Python more than keeps pace with the modern web instead of subconsciously suggesting to budding programmers that your language is stuck in the 90's.

Also, PHP community, I'm speaking to you as well. Your PHP homepage, pecl, and pear sites (although easy enough to navigate) are in desperate need of a modern design.