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Litmus
Company blog · litmus.com/blogwebbusinessdesign
Litmus is the company blog at litmus.com, writing about web, business and design. Since 2010, 76 different Hacker News readers have linked it 91 times, most often “Email client market share”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Litmus's blog as a reference on email rendering across clients, Gmail image caching, dark mode, and email client market share. Many other comments are job posts or tool mentions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Litmus is the all-in-one email marketing platform that provides the tools and solutions your team needs to make every send count.
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2013-02-17
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-03-07
- /3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-10-18
- Email client market share3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-03-09
- /careers2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-05-02
- /blog/5-things-you-must-know-about-email-consent-under-gdpr2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-26
- /blog/a-guide-to-rendering-differences-in-microsoft-outlook-clients/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-06
What Hacker News says?
Litmus | https://litmus.com | Boston | Full-Time | REMOTE Litmus is building a platform to help email marketers, agencies, and companies send better email. We write and maintain tools that cater to the email design process, like creating the HTML/CSS, collaborating with others on the design, verifying accuracy with email client screenshots, and analyzing campaign performance. We're hiring a Rails developer (we do ha…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted Preventing Unsubscribes in Forwarded Emails as a story · 111 points
HN discussionWhat an excellent resource! (And yes Outlook is a pain and supports so very little!) We've tried building email templates for notifications for our apps where I work, and it has typically been a pain. We have since swapped to using mjml ( https://mjml.io/ ) to build the templates, and it's working wonders. The output seems the be the most compatible with all different devices that we've tested on. The other tool we…
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on “Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content”Submitted A Guide to Spam Traps and How to Avoid Them as a story · 13 points
HN discussionGood news, https://www.litmus.com/ is exactly this, and does work for Gmail.
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on “Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content”Submitted You can send a hidden version of your email just for Apple Watch as a story · 10 points
HN discussionYou’re correct. They switched from IE to Word https://www.litmus.com/blog/a-guide-to-rendering-differences...
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on “Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid”Submitted Apple Watch email client displays only text/plain part as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've used this guide to navigate email styling nightmare: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/ And this tool to test emails before sending: https://litmus.com/
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on “Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email”Submitted How to Code HTML5 Video Background in Email as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBeen working for 3 years in the past in an email isp I had different information, gmail did cache the images and did it "forever". May be this changed recently? More info: https://litmus.com/blog/gmail-adds-image-caching-what-you-ne...
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on “Time.gif”Submitted 2017 State of Email as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOne use case for automatically adapting/live updating gifs is emails since HTML in emails can only have a very limited subset of functionality. One can use automatically generated gifs to add things like countdown timers based on the opening time of the email. (i.e. loading time of the image) See for example this post: https://litmus.com/community/learning/27-how-to-add-a-countd...
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on “Time.gif”Submitted A guide to animated GIFs in email as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've been assembling a list of these lately for a book that I'm working on. ( http://startingandsustaining.com ) Some of the categories are fairly loose as some apps don't fit nicely into categorical buckets, but hopefully this is a helpful list. --Browser/Email Testing BrowserStack ( http://www.browserstack.com ) Litmus ( http://litmus.com ) --Bug/Issue Tracking BugHerd ( http://bugherd.com ) Lighthouse ( http://li…
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on “Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition”Submitted The How-To Guide to Responsive Email Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLitmus | Cambridge, MA or Remote | C# and Ruby Devs, System Administrators, Support Engineers http://litmus.com Litmus helps more than 250,000 marketers make email better. Our web-based email creation, testing and analytics platform empowers marketers, designers and agencies to confidently deliver a superior subscriber experience. Our backend is primarily C# with a mix of other stuff, our front end is a rapidly expa…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)”Submitted Gmail Opens Drop 18%: Are Tabs to Blame? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou should look into http://www.stampready.net - along with Campaign Monitor's email builder ( https://www.campaignmonitor.com/features/create-custom-email... ), it's one of the best drag-and-drop tools for creating really good, responsive emails. The problem with any of these tools is that they still spit out sometimes convoluted code, but that can't really be avoided since they need to cover their asses in literal…
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on “Introducing Bootstrap Studio”Submitted Anatomy of a Perfect Mobile Email as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLitmus | Cambridge, MA or Remote | C# and Ruby Devs, System Administrators http://litmus.com Litmus helps more than 250,000 marketers make email better. Our web-based email creation, testing and analytics platform empowers marketers, designers and agencies to confidently deliver a superior subscriber experience. Our backend is primarily C# with a mix of other stuff, our front end is a rapidly expanding Ruby on Rails…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)”Submitted Outlook Email Rendering Issues and How to Solve Them as a story · 1 points
HN discussion90% is a gross exaggeration. The Mail app is pure black[0]. Apps that have grey on black like Messages have styles carried over from the light version of apps — they weren’t specifically optimized for dark mode to improve readability. Other apps that I’ve checked: Music, Phone, Photos, Files, Calendar, even Twitter. [0] https://www.litmus.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bildschirm...
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on “Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?”Submitted Curated Has a New Owner as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLitmus ( http://litmus.com ) At Litmus we build best-in-class tools to help email marketers. We're trusted by over 100,000 email marketers all around the world and have partnerships with industry leaders including MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, Experian and more. We’re bootstrapped, profitable and proud. You’ll be working with our team of developers building cool stuff, with amazing people. We're looking for Ruby and…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)”Submitted Community Contest: Creative Navigation in Email as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLitmus | Cambridge, MA or Remote | C# and Ruby Devs, UI Designers http://litmus.com Litmus helps more than 250,000 marketers make email better. Our web-based email creation, testing and analytics platform empowers marketers, designers and agencies to confidently deliver a superior subscriber experience. Our backend is primarily C# with a mix of other stuff, our front end is a rapidly expanding Ruby on Rails applicat…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)”Submitted Litmus and Microsoft Partner to Make Email Better as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe Litmus templates are really well made and look great in all email clients I've tried them in. https://litmus.com/resources/free-responsive-email-templates
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on “Mailtrain.org, self-hosted open-source Mailchimp clone”Submitted Litmus Acquires Content Curation Tool Curated as a story · 1 points
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