Because all other aspects of their businesses except services beat expectations. So we can't really say if this change will be permanent indefinitely.
Readit Newspirsquare commented on Ask HN: Why haven't we seen a race to the bottom in SaaS pricing? · Posted by u/majani
Because business owners don't have the time and resources to keep changing vendors to save 10% costs. Time is money.
Switching cost is more than you think. For example, I don't like Zendesk it's expensive and over-engineered. But I stick to it because I know how hard it is to port my docs over and re-setup the live chat. It's half a day work. To save $50/mo, it's not worth my time. My focus is growing my company, not to save $50/mo.
I run SaaS and spent alot in SaaS products.
This might be good news, but as it comes from Google and involves email centralisation, I’m sceptical.
At MailPace we already enforce DKIM, it’s pretty basic stuff. But list-unsubscribe is optional for our senders.
We can make this a requirement and manage lists for senders who don’t / can’t implement a webhook to handle it (we already default to blocking resends to emails that hard bounce).
However I am curious how Google will track this. Just because the header is set, it doesn’t mean it’ll do anything. In fact it can be used by spammers to identify legit email addresses and spam them separately.
Why would you allow users to unsub from transactional emails?
This is the direct link to the guidelines.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126
Strange there's no mentioned about transactional emails. Since we wouldn't include unsubscribe link for transactional emails.
pirsquare commented on I think GCP is better than AWS (2020) nandovillalba.medium.com/... · Posted by u/hui-zheng
How GCP support compares to AWS support? What is your personal experience with support?
Amazon is A-tier.
GCP is F-tier
GCP - Shutdown our production servers and took 1 whole week to get it resolved. Nothing fraudulent on our end. Just for missing out on KYC form.
pirsquare commented on I think GCP is better than AWS (2020) nandovillalba.medium.com/... · Posted by u/hui-zheng
pirsquare commented on I think GCP is better than AWS (2020) nandovillalba.medium.com/... · Posted by u/hui-zheng
GCP will shutdown your production servers and take one whole week to get it back. All for missing out on a KYC form.
Our story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35133917
Forget about the initial shutdown, how can you take 1 whole week to resolve something critical like this.
Even if Google is offering me $1mil cloud credits today I wouldn't risk my business with them anymore.
Reminds me of https://killedbygoogle.com/
Makes me wonder. Is there a market for something like Upvoty (to gauge interested) + Kickstarter (to get commitment) for dead projects?
Or at the v least, showing possible alternatives. After all, life is about moving forward.
I welcome PRs to add additional sending providers - it wouldn't be onerous.
SES is terrible in the past but now it is at least on-par if not better than postmark.
Only issue with SES is setup can be tedious.