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New comment by jonathanbull in "I tried every top email marketing tool"

jonathanbull — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:30:33 +0000

CEO of EmailOctopus here. I was just about to offer this clarification, so thanks for commenting! Confirming that we offer auto-plan downgrades (and if you prefer it to not be automatic, as a lot of people do, you can manually increase/decrease your tier at any time).

New comment by jonathanbull in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)"

jonathanbull — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 23:09:21 +0000

EmailOctopus | Full Stack PHP Dev | ONSITE (London, Manchester) or REMOTE (permission to work in UK required) | Full-time

EmailOctopus is a simple, intuitive and affordable email marketing platform. We’re a small company making a big impact — with a growing customer base we’ve gone from strength to strength over the past seven years. Some of our current clients include Jaguar Land Rover, Universal Music, Bear Grylls, WaterAid and NPR.

We’re looking for a talented Full Stack Developer to help us make EmailOctopus the preferred email marketing platform for thousands of users around the world.

More about the role and to apply: https://workinstartups.com/job-board/job/137850/full-stack-d...

(please mention you heard about the role here)

New comment by jonathanbull in "Show HN: I made a MailChimp alternative that connects to your database"

jonathanbull — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 18:20:03 +0000

The market for entrepreneurs/companies who know how to create IAM credentials but don't have the time or skills to build an entire email marketing platform on top of Amazon SES is bigger than you think (I co-founded EmailOctopus which does the same thing without the database hookup, which is a cool idea).

Good luck with it @kashnote

Email marketing regulations around the world

jonathanbull — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 16:25:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/threeheartsdigital/email-marketing-regulations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34679755

Points: 70

# Comments: 28

New comment by jonathanbull in "Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)"

jonathanbull — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 10:51:38 +0000

The song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

The AWS Health Dashboard can't be trusted

jonathanbull — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 14:35:52 +0000

Article URL: https://jonathanbull.co.uk/blog/aws-health-dashboard-cannot-be-trusted/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31694799

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by jonathanbull in "Ask HN: Support SaaS"

jonathanbull — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 15:57:22 +0000

We went through about five different platforms for our SaaS (EmailOctopus) before settling on Help Scout. It’s excellent.

New comment by jonathanbull in "How Does FaceTime Work?"

jonathanbull — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 16:33:37 +0000

Can't speak for the quality, but video calling has been available on desktop (Windows/MacOS) for a little while now –

https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/04/whatsapp-rolls-out-voice-a...

New comment by jonathanbull in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)"

jonathanbull — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 15:15:55 +0000

EmailOctopus | UK / LONDON | REMOTE

We're looking for a senior PHP developer.

Since 2014 we've been making email marketing simpler, more intuitive and better value, to help anyone with an audience grow. We're sending over 100 million emails a week and processing a huge amount of associated data – 10 TB and counting! Doing this affordably (fair pricing is one of our core values) brings some unique and fun challenges.

You should apply if:

- You're excited by our technical challenges

- You have the right to work in the UK, but enjoy working flexibly from anywhere in the world

- You have 5+ years experience in PHP and its web frameworks, like Symfony/Laravel

- You're passionate about writing clean, well-tested and maintainable code

- You like the idea of working for a small company and having a big impact, and you have the ability to work with a high degree of self-motivation and limited supervision

Apply here: https://jobs.gohire.io/emailoctopus-s1ldhpbq/

New comment by jonathanbull in "Gmail having issues"

jonathanbull — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 06:45:57 +0000

It's a real headache but should be fully reversible. @shmoogy hit the nail on the head: we'll run through our events in that timeframe, inspect the raw bounce reason to check it relates to the Gmail outage, then undo the actions that the bounce caused.

The reason why this is so nasty is not because Gmail went down, but because they returned a 5XX permanent failure and not a 4XX temporary failure for these bounces. Literally every email provider will respond to a permanent bounce by suppressing all further emails to that email address (it's permanent, after all!), so the fallout from this will be huge.

New comment by jonathanbull in "Gmail having issues"

jonathanbull — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:20:53 +0000

CEO of an email marketing platform here (EmailOctopus). If anyone's curious, here's a chart showing our bounce rate to Gmail addresses over the course of the week:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpUE20UXYAEa_Uv?format=jpg&name=...

That's a peak of 90% of Gmail inboxes bouncing – and this has been going on for almost 24 hours.

New comment by jonathanbull in "Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think"

jonathanbull — Wed, 13 May 2020 06:19:50 +0000

Can I throw my hat into the ring? I run an email marketing platform (https://emailoctopus.com) that’s affordable and aimed at entrepreneurs/makers with newsletters. Shoot me an email if you’d like a discount.

New comment by jonathanbull in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)"

jonathanbull — Fri, 01 May 2020 17:08:38 +0000

https://emailoctopus.com/careers | UK / LONDON | ONSITE OR REMOTE We're looking for:

- Backend engineers

- PHP Developers

- Senior PHP Developers

You should apply if:

- You're excited by our technical challenges

- You have the right to work in the UK, but enjoy working flexibly from anywhere in the world

- You have 2+ years experience in PHP and its web frameworks, like Symfony/Laravel

- You're passionate about writing clean, well-tested and maintainable code

- You like the idea of working for a small company and having a big impact, and you have the ability to work with a high degree of self-motivation and limited supervision

Apply here: https://emailoctopus.com/careers

New comment by jonathanbull in "Collision Course: a type of road junction that is dangerous for cyclists (2018)"

jonathanbull — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 21:22:44 +0000

If anyone's looking to learn more about road layouts (who isn't?!), Road Guy Rob has a good channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdUXv9yQiIhspWPYgp8_XA

New comment by jonathanbull in "Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers"

jonathanbull — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:38:51 +0000

Yep, this happened at least five months ago.

https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2019/10/28/instagram-now-...

New comment by jonathanbull in "WeWork sells Meetup"

jonathanbull — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:18:13 +0000

Try Ticket Tailor

New comment by jonathanbull in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)"

jonathanbull — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 01:45:48 +0000

https://emailoctopus.com/careers | UK / LONDON | ONSITE OR REMOTE

We're looking for:

- Backend engineers

- PHP Developers

- Senior PHP Developers

You should apply if:

- You're excited by our technical challenges

- You have the right to work in the UK, but enjoy working flexibly from anywhere in the world

- You have 2+ years experience in PHP and its web frameworks, like Symfony/Laravel

- You're passionate about writing clean, well-tested and maintainable code

- You like the idea of working for a small company and having a big impact, and you have the ability to work with a high degree of self-motivation and limited supervision

Apply here: https://emailoctopus.com/careers

New comment by jonathanbull in "Apple Pay on pace to account for 10% of global card transactions"

jonathanbull — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 22:38:23 +0000

I've done this loads of times. Albeit in the UK and Canada, where the card reader is brought to your table.

New comment by jonathanbull in "N26 will be leaving the UK"

jonathanbull — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 19:27:04 +0000

I highly recommend Monzo.

New comment by jonathanbull in "Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones"

jonathanbull — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 22:17:11 +0000

Lots more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22266966