Something is definitely up with Cloudflare's Johannesburg data centre. On particularly bad days, TTFB routinely reaches 1-3 seconds. Bypassing Cloudflare immediately drops this to sub 100ms.

In the past, I would have emailed support@cloudflare.com, but it seems that this channel is no longer available for free tier users. What is the recommended approach these days for reporting issues such as this?

That's not to say that this is what happened here, but in both situations the problem comes down to a lack of effective communication.

The agency here should have communicated from the start how many hours they can reasonably expect to spend on each phase of the project with the given budget, and then provided continuous updates to allow Michael to understand how much time he had remaining to complete the project. Opaque processes, coupled with a lack of transparency and communication is how projects like this leave a sour taste, or worse, fail entirely.

On a personal note, I'm gobsmacked at both the hourly rates as well as the total project hours discussed in this article. A website like this should have taken a fraction of the time. And if outsourced to a professional team in another country, a fraction of the price too.

Overall looks like a great solution, and definitely a gap in the market. On a side note, I hit the "Try for Free" button on the home page and got a 404.

As for Aids denialism, South Africa suffers from a case of cultural antiestablishmentism, particularly in the context of Western medicine. Thankfully our government has stepped up in recent years, and actively promotes HIV/Aids education these days.

We're focusing our efforts internationally next month, and I would love some feedback from the international community. We built RecruitDoor on the idea of ease and simplicity, and even though we think we've built a great product, constructive feedback is always appreciated!

Richard.

[1] https://www.recruitdoor.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14803389

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Obligatory plug: I'm the cofounder of RecruitDoor [1], an applicant tracking system for recruitment agencies. We've been running in South Africa for a few months now, and we'll be branching internationally next month. (Comments and critique welcome, by the way; we're currently still a startup).

[1] https://www.recruitdoor.com

Dropbox seems to have achieved this by integrating with Microsoft Office Online [1]. However, it isn't clear to me whether Microsoft supports this for any old SAAS app, or whether it's only for internal business use-cases where each user has an Office365 subscription.

Has anyone achieved this integration with their webapp? Alternatively, are there any other SAAS integrations that would allow users to edit their uploaded Word docs online?

[1] http://wopi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14731815

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Deliverability will only be an issue if you land up on an IP address that was previously abused, so it may be worth checking out the IP address reputation on DNSBL [2] before setting up Mail-in-a-Box.

Make sure you configure an SPF record for the server's IP address, and then also set up DKIM and SPF. I have yet to see any deliverability issues using this setup.

[1] https://mailinabox.email

[2] http://www.dnsbl.info

Mailgun's 30-day retention period is also a bit absurd, since most of our clients require mail audit trails in the region of 6-12 months.

What kind of marketing went into this girl's business to do so well in a country that she doesn't even live in?

Does anyone have any experience with deliverability, comparing Amazon SES to something like Mailchimp? Are the deliverability rates of Mailchimp really that much better?