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mark242 on Oct 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mailgun API 2.0: forget MIME

You're right, but for a successful business, you need to provide a service that would normally take more than half a day of development time, or have a wider breadth of functionality than your competitors (Mailchimp, Bluehornet), or -- worst case scenario -- compete on price. This appears to do none of those three.

teaspoon on Oct 18, 2011 [–]

Half a day of development costs at least a few hundred dollars in the US, so I don't see why a business can't make money by saving you that time.

And some argue that there are other ways to compete than on features and price:

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Build_Less.php

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