Show HN: Send email via Amazon SES and Sendgrid from your Google Sheets

Looks good from a first look at it, congrats on launching it!<p>Just checked if you mention bounces and saw that you track bounces; how does your app show &#x2F; keep track of the bounces and more importantly of the bounce rate in general?<p>I&#x27;m mentioning this since Amazon SES will place your account under review if your bounce rate is 5% or greater; you can find a few useful links on this comment thread: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21955614" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21955614</a><p>Best of luck with your app!<p>Disclaimer: I was responsible for the implementation of an e-mail notification system using Amazon SES.

This looks great - well done!<p>My two cents - I personally get put off by business models that include a lifetime access one time purchase option.<p>From my personal experience (as a prolific SaaS early adopter) it typically indicates that either; the software is a get rich quick scheme (e.g. spin up&#x2F;spin down VPNs), or the founders haven’t accounted for scaling&#x2F;recurring organisational costs in their business model.<p>If your product is good and it continues to provide value, people will continue to pay to access that value. There is no need to short change your business model with an infinite customer commitment ;)

Looks like a complete copycat of Mailmeteor (same wording, same interface)

I made something similar in Excel:<p>- an email like template with input fields (to, cc, bcc, from, body, etc).<p>- a table where the user can specify the column headers and add a list of values. The headers are considered keys. The keys can then be referenced in mustache quotes anywhere in the template.<p>I also added attachment functionality since it was for a very specific use-case.<p>The tool would then create 1 email per entry in the user table, filling in all wildcards. As you can imagine, it doesn&#x27;t use SES or Sendgrid .. it uses Outlook for the sending :) Good times! the business loved it, but coding in VBA is a bit of a PITA.

Love the idea. I am using Mailchimp right now but can get quite expensive.<p>If I send mails using Sendgrid, or some other provider, using Sendsimple, can I review bounce rates and click rates as well?

It looks nice, but not really sure who the target market for it is?<p>It&#x27;s pretty easy for a dev to send emails from Google Sheets using Apps Script. If you want to send bulk, custom emails, then something like MailChimp can do this for free&#x2F;cheap.<p>If you&#x27;re looking to send thousands of emails, then you likely have a large customer base or a big marketing budget and can afford a proper tool.<p>I mainly use Sheets to automate internal processes, linking to Google Forms. Plus there&#x27;s free tools out there, for example AutoCrat[0] that can do a similar thing, albeit without the SendGrid&#x2F;SES link. But then again, if you&#x27;re aware of SES you&#x27;re probably technically minded.<p>I may be wrong though, good luck with it either way. If it doesn&#x27;t gain traction, open sourcing it with a tip jar may be a nice touch and help keep it alive.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workspace.google.com&#x2F;marketplace&#x2F;app&#x2F;autocrat&#x2F;539341275670" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workspace.google.com&#x2F;marketplace&#x2F;app&#x2F;autocrat&#x2F;539341...</a>

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Isn&#x27;t Sendgrid still blocked by half the Internet because of all the spam from them?

Really excited to see this! I have some small indie projects and often end up making something in Google Sheets to handle basic CRM functions.<p>Really excited to see a productized version of the hacky things I make in Google Sheets + Integromat haha.

Is there a pay-as-you-go pricing (OK to be a higher than monthly) too? I&#x27;m looking for something like this but am willing to pay when I need but won&#x27;t use it regularly.

Interesting! Do I need to have my own SES or Sendgrid account?

Typo on the homepage if anyone from the app is reading: &quot;Scale your online bussines without increase in overhead cost of email marketing.&quot;

Please fix the content. It should be &quot;Unlimited Subscribers&quot;, not Unlimited Subscriber&#x27;s&quot;.

Yet another mail merge in town! The site looks very new though. Most links are broken in the footer.

i agree that tracking bounces is critical for this. that said, I&#x27;m already a big fan and would love to give this a try.<p>I would also love to see if a pixel can be added to emails so emails and link clicks could be tracked as well.

Does this include list-unsubscribe headers and unsubscribe links?

This seems like a really neat service! Kudos!

Mailbluster.com is similar.