Show HN: I built a tool to send 10k emails for $1 via AWS

This gotta be against AWS&#x27;s term... When you sign up for AWS SES, they ask you very detailed questions about how you&#x27;ll monitor bounces, deal with spam reports, etc. I don&#x27;t see how you can do that and then hand your keys to another service to do things in there own way.<p>Also, what is the point of giving this service your AWS creds rather than them using AWS directly? Since they charge you anyway?

For most email senders, it is not the cost that is most important but deliverability. Ensuring your emails do not land up in SPAM is way more important than saving money, especially when you are still small or early in the business.<p>For bigger businesses, the cost is solved - either by using their system, processes, and people, or the ROI is good enough to pay someone to do it for them.

“Guaranteeing Inbox Delivery and Spam Avoidance.”<p>No details as to how. Am not sure this can be guaranteed.

For those looking for a self-hosted solution which doesn’t require a monthly payment, there’s <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sendy.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sendy.co&#x2F;</a>. I never tried it, just remembered it exists.<p>Mail Layer does seems to have a bit more features, so pick your tradeoff.<p>As for feedback on the page, the mobile design isn’t exactly broken but it does have a number of problems. It’s so squished at the top it reads:<p><pre><code> Mail Documentation Layer </code></pre> Playing the video, its right side is entirely cut off. The “Frequently Asked Questions” title overlaps the questions themselves.

Seems like most are bringing up the issue of spam filter bypassing as the real business value, I&#x27;m very curious if any &quot;email 2.0&quot; systems have been devised to combat the spam issues of SMTP?

Tell me more about this inbox deliverability guarantee.

I don&#x27;t really get what&#x27;s exceptional here? $0.10 for 1000 emails is the normal AWS SES price...<p>This is just a high markup for something you have open source equivalents of.

This looks pretty neat. When I used SES at a previous company we had to do a lot of stuff like bounce tracking and monitoring ourselves so I definitely see the value.<p>One recommendation would be to use have customers create an IAM role and use cross-account role assumption to access SES on their behalf. That way you don’t have to deal with handling long-lived credentials

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;knadh&#x2F;listmonk">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;knadh&#x2F;listmonk</a><p>We use listmonk, extremely flexible and lightweight as well! I want to try to build a Hubspot integration to fetch contacts directly from Hubspot.

There was another service that did this pretty well and much simpler. Unfortunately, suffers from the same “deliverability is now your own problem“ problem.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sendwithses.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sendwithses.com</a>

Can someone make an open source version of this so developers can directly integrate themselves on AWS?

Please, don&#x27;t do that!

Can&#x27;t get past the &quot;+ Create Brand&quot; button, even though every field is filled in and the email is verified by Amazon...

Nice. Have you built the landing page from scratch? Or is it a pre-made template?