Mailgun Campaign Analytics: taking analytics beyond bulk email

Co-founder of Mailgun here. One of the triggers behind this kind of analytics came from the excellent blog post by Paul Stamatiou (<a href="http://paulstamatiou.com/startup-user-retention-lifecycle-email" rel="nofollow">http://paulstamatiou.com/startup-user-retention-lifecycle-em...</a>) which highlighted the importance of detailed analytics for <i>all</i> types of emails you do, not just "weekly newsletters".<p>Additionally, we discovered that most of our users <i>also</i> use traditional email marketing companies, so we decided to kill two birds with one stone.<p>This new product we've launched basically allows you, the developer, to become your own Mailchimp over the weekend at a fraction of the cost. And slice/dice your email traffic with arbitrary granularity, down to individual message level.

Mailgun is probably my favorite service. I have never had a problem using them. Any perl devs that want to use it I started a wrapper here <a href="https://github.com/gtsafas/mailgun.perl" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gtsafas/mailgun.perl</a> . Havent had a chance to really finalize it yet but feel free to fork, its just using LWP::UserAgent.<p>But then again their api is so simple its almost not needed

We've been using Mailgun for the last couple months at COLOURlovers to manage and analyze our weekly newsletter campaigns (400k+/week) and handle our transactional email. Easily worth every penny, and the support from Taylor and Ev has been fantastic.

I am a free user of Mailgun who emailed the team about a feature request. It was a Sunday. They responded immediately. Again,it was a Sunday. 36 hours later, they emailed again; the feature was LIVE. Oh. Needless to say I am gladly turning into a paying user in a few days.

Wow, this looks fantastic. Can't wait to try it out.<p>(We've been using MailGun successfully for over a year now to send all of our outgoing email for Lanyrd - hasn't caused us a single problem)

I've been looking at Mailgun for an upcoming project, and I must say "bravo" on the new website design.

Mailgun is a really great service for us at Zhihu.com. We switched away from Amazon SES to Mailgun for sending weekly newsletters three months ago and got amazing improvement in deliverability. The API is much simpler and well designed. No more XML parsing with SES!<p>A few days ago we moved our transactional notification mails from Postmark to Mailgun, and we are very pleased with the result. Given our volume, Mailgun's price is significantly lower than Postmark's ($0.10 vs $1.50 per thousand), and we don't have to deal with many issues we had with Postmark.<p>Ev and the whole team are fantastic at support!

Just a quick pet peeve. Your Twitter link text in the header says "@mailgun" but your twitter username is "@mail_gun".<p>:)

We have been using Mailgun at our startup for a month now and to say that I am very satisfied with Mailgun would be an understatement. Mailgun rocks and I would highly recommend it for any startup.

We're huge Mailgun fans at AppFog and LOVE the new analytics!! Nice work.

Mailgun rocks. We use it at dotCloud and it has never failed us.

The pricing plan is very confusing, definitely should simplify that. Maybe use something like heroku pricing page

How do you determine "unique opens"? How do you determine the links clicked on? Do you send them to your servers first and then redirect to the actual url?

I need user acquisition as a service before I can worry about user retention as a service. Got something for that?

Truly informative.For the last couple of days I was looking for a flexible mail analytic product.It sounds good.The fact that I like most in mail gun is that it will give a time line of the events of the day when recipients are interacting with my email.