Hacker News: chrisfrantz

New comment by chrisfrantz in "Shortlinks to YouTube are being flagged as spam in Gmail"

chrisfrantz — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:29:07 +0000

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.

Shortlinks to YouTube are being flagged as spam in Gmail

chrisfrantz — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:29:07 +0000

Article URL: https://loops.so/engineering/gmail-does-not-like-youtube

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46534756

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by chrisfrantz in "Drawing with zero-width characters"

chrisfrantz — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:43:47 +0000

Chrome, latest stable

New comment by chrisfrantz in "Drawing with zero-width characters"

chrisfrantz — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:05:00 +0000

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.

New comment by chrisfrantz in "GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability"

chrisfrantz — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:45:28 +0000

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 context is wide enough, even this level of delivery + intelligence will be sufficient to implement the work.

New comment by chrisfrantz in "Migrating to AWS in production with zero downtime"

chrisfrantz — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 21:04:41 +0000

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 had to be public, queues kept sun-setting, and the database had no automatic fail-over. We were spending more hours nursing infra than building features.

Over the next six months we rebuilt on plain AWS: EKS for the Next.js app, Aurora Postgres in-VPC, SQS for jobs, all managed with Terraform. A Cloudflare Worker mirrored an increasing slice of live traffic to Kubernetes until everything looked solid, then a DNS flip made it the source of truth.

Supabase data flowed into Aurora via logical replication; once lag was near zero we swapped the connection string and retired the old stack without users noticing. Costs are predictable now and we control most knobs.

We put this post together as a bit of a retro and to help if you're evaluating a similar path for your company.

Migrating to AWS in production with zero downtime

chrisfrantz — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 21:04:41 +0000

Article URL: https://loops.so/engineering-blogs/migrating-to-aws-in-production-with-zero-downtime

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44652985

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by chrisfrantz in "Unlimited Transactional Email Sending"

chrisfrantz — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 18:12:11 +0000

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 have 4,000 users and you send an automated onboarding email along with an occasional product update every month or two.

Your product also generates daily rollup emails, along with product notifications, and other standard transactional emails, maybe 100,000 emails a month total.

That's now available at the same price, just $49.

Say next month you gain another 500 users and you send 200,000 emails. That's still just $49 a month.

Our goal is to help you send all your emails from one platform for a single price point and this gets us one step closer.

Unlimited Transactional Email Sending

chrisfrantz — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 18:12:11 +0000

Article URL: https://loops.so/updates/transactional-email-is-now-free

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42390820

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by chrisfrantz in "A Deep Dive into Rspamd"

chrisfrantz — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:32:24 +0000

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.

A Deep Dive into Rspamd

chrisfrantz — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:31:41 +0000

Article URL: https://loops.so/updates/a-deep-dive-into-rspamd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41788321

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by chrisfrantz in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

chrisfrantz — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 17:51:42 +0000

A couple years in, we’re still building Loops (loops.so), email for software companies.

New comment by chrisfrantz in "Launch HN: Metriport (YC S22) – Open-source API for healthcare data exchange"

chrisfrantz — Thu, 23 May 2024 17:49:00 +0000

Congrats Dima and team, it's been cool watching you build this over the last couple of years.

Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?

chrisfrantz — Wed, 15 May 2024 23:41:30 +0000

I have a couple flights soon and I was thinking about picking one up to ease the cross-country trips.

Are you using yours on flights or for work or not at all?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40373653

Points: 56

# Comments: 41

New comment by chrisfrantz in "Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content"

chrisfrantz — Tue, 07 May 2024 00:12:04 +0000

I use this daily, great resource.

New comment by chrisfrantz in "Launch HN: Zenfetch (YC W23) – Turn notes/browser history into an AI assistant"

chrisfrantz — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:05:04 +0000

Oh nice! Glad to see this launched, congrats to the Zenfetch team, been following for a while :)

Show HN: I built a tool that diagnoses your email deliverability

chrisfrantz — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:41:49 +0000

As you may know, Google is rolling out bulk sender guidelines that go into effect Feb 1 (that’s this Thursday)

Your deliverability could be impacted so we made this tool.

Here’s how it works:

1. Send an email to the generated email address 2. Review your results

That’s it. The generated /results page is also accessible publicly so you can share with your team in case you're not the one with permission to add or modify records.

You can view an example of a passed test here: https://bounce.doctor/results/example

We currently check for valid DKIM, DMARC, SPF, List-ID and One-click Unsubscribe. We plan to extend this tool in the future as well but it will remain free and accessible without an account.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39192218

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by chrisfrantz in "Methane under the seabed is thawing as oceans warm"

chrisfrantz — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 20:12:05 +0000

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 the emissions trajectory during this century".

New comment by chrisfrantz in "Show HN: Get you emails roasted by the new GPT-4 Vision API"

chrisfrantz — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 21:04:43 +0000

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 checking out the docs for the new API and playing around, it's fun! https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/vision

Show HN: Get you emails roasted by the new GPT-4 Vision API

chrisfrantz — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 21:04:01 +0000

Built this for fun because I wanted to play with the new API then the domain was $5 so it kind of just happened.

That's it!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38224509

Points: 1

# Comments: 1