Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦

Frontend dev shipping Senlo (open-source transactional email) in public. Stack, metrics, mistakes.

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

resend’s pricing page recommends scale at $160 for 200k emails a month. a smaller plan plus overage is $125. mailgun does the same thing, postmark gets it right

did the math by hand for 4 providers at 10k, 50k and 200k. ngl the slider is not your friend

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

@daniildesigns I had similiar situation but with my opensource repo at github.

The problem was solved after I posted it on Reddit and post became viral.

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

@HeyFaina Thank you

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

week 1 of marketing my product from zero. 12 visitors to 169, 0 signups to 4.

the twist, 3 of 4 signups came from google, not from the reddit post with 1,600 views

wrote down all the numbers, even the tiny ones https://t.co/DuH2MTWgvZ

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

@HeyFaina Thank u for advice, I did not look on this fact from this point of view

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

@adamdotenv I have same experience. One or multiple threads in Claude + structured projects in the same place

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

@hey_arin I hope so.

The honest caveat is i can’t tell yet if they found the pages or saw a post and googled the name.

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

@acecreamu yeah that was the surprise for me too. a post with 1,600 views and a page nobody saw doing the actual work.

did you see the same thing on your own stuff?

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

@marclou How do you prevent fake profit, e.g. someone paying themselves through 5-10 fake customers or friends who get refunded later? What does the manual review actually check?

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

@marclou have two apps in app store, completely understand your pain ))

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

@shaigexp Hi, thank u for detailed review.

I have guides. For example https://t.co/Pr7fwaCHu2

But mb I have to improve to make more readable and include more steps. Thnx

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

@wickedguro have heard about your case when u had 16k I guess. And you inspired me to start open-source product too.

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

@rajatsx @CourseLit fair, same here honestly.

and since you went newsletters first and i went transactional only, we might even end up sending people to each other 😃

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

@DarayuthH why it is so much close to https://t.co/2z1u1DfKYs of @levelsio :D

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

@frantzfries and most of the ppl still trust to LLM's truly

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

ha, so we’re competitors then, the friendly kind. you went newsletters plus transactional, i went transactional and lifecycle only, no broadcasts on purpose

bring your own ESP is becoming a whole category, which honestly makes me feel better about the idea. good luck with sendlit

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

@marclou my explore page is empty. deleted the app, best productivity hack i ever shipped

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

Thanks 🧡

I’m using umami too, also on the free plan. picked it because it’s simple and needs no cookie banner. This week i’ll add GSC, turns out half of my traffic comes from google and umami can’t tell me what people searched for

what’s your spin off? curious what you’re building in email

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

@valerioamirani good call, that’s exactly the part i can’t see right now. gonna add it as one optional question right after signup instead of on the form, the form is the only step that converts well so i don’t wanna touch it.

will share what it shows in week 2

[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

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[Ihor Filippov 🇺🇦 @tagtag193]

resend’s pricing page recommends scale at $160 for 200k emails a month. a smaller plan plus overage is $125. mailgun does the same thing, postmark gets it right

did the math by hand for 4 providers at 10k, 50k and 200k. ngl the slider is not your friend