Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login
Ask HN: Is there an email service specifically for your customers subscriptions?
1 point by epistrephein on March 23, 2015 | hide | past | favorite
So, you're a freelance (or not) developer or whatever and you've decided with your client for a domain + website + email + monitoring + CI + HitGub blablabla So it's time to choose a registrar and an host and deploy yay! Stop right there.

Uhm... you need an account on registeryourstupiddomain.com to get started. Right, I'll use mine cause I'll handle everything. Wait damnit what if I will no longer be employed for this client in 5 years and they'll gonna move everything? Damn, I'll use his.

Oh right, I need an account also on digitalpond.org to create the vps. I can't use his address, he'll get flooded with status email about fundamental nonsense things he won't understand and he will trash.

Damn, I'll use mine here. Wait, what if they need to move the droplet then?

God! Fine, I'll make a new gmail account.

client@gmail.com -- taken

client-date@gmail.com -- taken

client-admin@gmail.com -- taken DAMNIT!

client-stupidduckinadigitalpond@gmail.com -- taken (wait, what?)

Is it possible no one has ever thought about an email service for you to create and then to use for other people?! Specifically thought for this end, for you to use to subscribe your clients to these kind of service and only these so you don't have to wrestle with gmail accounts and you can pass to the next developer or sysadmin or whatever.

And that maybe can track what services you subscribed to, so when you login after 4 years with that address you can go: 'oh right, the vps are on AWS, not on digitalpond right right...'

Jesus! Go make a startup and send me an invite, I NEED THIS.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: