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Mailgun
Company blog · mailgun.com/blog · on HN as old-greggprogrammingweb
Mailgun is the company blog at mailgun.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2011, 80 different Hacker News readers have linked it 108 times, most often “Mailgun eliminates 'Concept' plan, no longer offering 10000 free emails/mo”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link mailgun.com as an email API service: its pricing and free-tier pages, the email validation and inbound routing product pages, and SMTP docs. The comments do not judge the writing.
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.
Powerful Transactional Email APIs that enable you to send, receive, and track emails, built with developers in mind. Learn more today!
Most-linked posts?
- /13 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2012-07-11
- /8 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2011-09-24
- /7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-10-19
- /6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2012-05-22
- /5 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2017-04-03
- Mailgun eliminates 'Concept' plan, no longer offering 10000 free emails/mo4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-10-22
- Building a Lucene-Inspired Parser in Go3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-09-09
- The golden age of scammers: AI-powered phishing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-16
- Gubernator: Cloud-Native Distributed Rate Limiting for Microservices2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-29
- /products/send/inbound-routing/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-11
What Hacker News says?
*Update*: I tried writing a little Python code to read and write from a mailbox, reading worked great, but writing an email had the email disappear to some filter or spam or something somewhere. I've got to figure out where it went, but this is the warning that some people had about not trusting a messaging protocol (email in this case) when you can't control the servers. Messages can disappear. I read that [Mailgun…
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on “A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs”Submitted Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs as a story · 379 points
HN discussionMake the link in the email https://mercury.com/something instead of https://mailgun.com/something (which then redirects to https://mercury.com/something ). Or (in addition to, or instead of, a hyperlink) provide a 6-10 digit numeric or alphanumeric code that could be copied out of the email message into a form field on the signin screen.
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on “Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option”Submitted The golden age of scammers: AI-powered phishing as a story · 197 points
HN discussionGravitational (YS S15) | Devops | Toronto | ONSITE https://gravitational.com Gravitational, an early stage systems & cloud startup in San Francisco and Toronto, is looking for ambitious and talented people. We are well-funded by fantastic Silicon Valley investors. We are an experienced team: we founded Mailgun[1] which was acquired by Rackspace, we created Vulcand[2] and some other cool stuff at Rackspace and are au…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted Mailgun Acquires Mailjet as a story · 172 points
HN discussionMailgun offers 100 emails/day for free [1] [1] https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/
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on “Cloudflare Email Service: private beta”Submitted Sinch to acquire Mailgun as a story · 149 points
HN discussionGravitational (YS S15) | Devops | Toronto | ONSITE https://gravitational.com Gravitational, an early stage systems & cloud startup in San Francisco and Toronto, is looking for ambitious and talented people. We are well-funded by fantastic Silicon Valley investors. We are an experienced team: we founded Mailgun[1] which was acquired by Rackspace, we created Vulcand[2] and some other cool stuff at Rackspace and are au…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted Gubernator: Cloud-Native Distributed Rate Limiting for Microservices as a story · 61 points
HN discussionGravitational, an early stage systems & cloud startup in San Francisco, is looking for ambitious and talented people. We are well-funded by fantastic Silicon Valley investors. We are an experienced team: we founded Mailgun[1] which was acquired by Rackspace, we created Vulcand[2] and some other cool stuff at Rackspace and are authors of Teleport[3] and Telekube[4] * Systems engineers (Linux, Go, Containers, Kubernet…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted What Toasters and Distributed Systems Might Have in Common as a story · 41 points
HN discussionGravitational (YS S15) | Devops | Mississauga | ONSITE REMOTE https://gravitational.com Gravitational, an early stage systems & cloud startup in San Francisco and Toronto, is looking for ambitious and talented people. We are well-funded by fantastic Silicon Valley investors. We are an experienced team: we founded Mailgun[1] which was acquired by Rackspace, we created Vulcand[2] and some other cool stuff at Rackspace…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”Submitted Mailgun: Announcing Strategic Growth Investment from Thoma Bravo as a story · 29 points
HN discussionGravitational (YS S15) | Devops | San Francisco & Toronto | ONSITE REMOTE https://gravitational.com Gravitational, an early stage systems & cloud startup in San Francisco, is looking for ambitious and talented people. We are well-funded by fantastic Silicon Valley investors. We are an experienced team: we founded Mailgun[1] which was acquired by Rackspace, we created Vulcand[2] and some other cool stuff at Rackspace…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)”Submitted Mailgun eliminates 'Concept' plan, no longer offering 10000 free emails/mo as a story · 23 points
HN discussionGravitational (YC S15) | Multiple Positions | Toronto, Oakland | ONSITE REMOTE | https://gravitational.com Gravitational builds open-core software to automate the delivery and operations of cloud-native software across multiple locations (multi-cloud and on-prem). We are looking for ambitious and talented people across engineering and go-to-market (sales/marketing). Here are some of the things we have built in the p…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)”Submitted Building a Lucene-Inspired Parser in Go as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe bigger and more concerning issue would be recipients complaining about the incoming email and marking it as spam, which could damage the reputation of HBO Max's domain and potentially send future legitimate messages to spam. (provided the integration tests don't use a non-primary domain for sending) I learned this the hard way in my last role, I worked for a small company that wanted to do custom email marketing…
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on “HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users”Submitted We built a Lucene-inspired parser in Go as a story · 5 points
HN discussionGravitational.com (YC S2015) | San Francisco | Full-time | ONSITE / REMOTE (US) Positions: Backend Engineer (Go) / Product Designer / Head of Growth / Solutions Engineer Online Descriptions: https://github.com/gravitational/careers Contact: jobs@gravitational.com Engineering Interview Process: There is an informal meeting or phone conversation with the founders (may be together or separate depending on timing). If e…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted Introducing Pathwire as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGravitational (YS S15) | Multiple Positions | Toronto, Oakland | ONSITE REMOTE | https://gravitational.com Gravitational builds open-core software to automate the delivery and operations of cloud-native software across multiple locations (cloud and on-prem). We are looking for ambitious and talented people across engineering and go-to-market (sales/marketing). We are well-funded and profitable. We are an experienced…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted Golang’s Superior Cache Solution to Memcached and Redis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou could probably have your mail pass through a non-gmail server like http://www.mailgun.com/ first
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on “Gmail API”Submitted We Built a Lucene-Inspired Parser in Go as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGravitational (YS S15) | Systems Engineer | Toronto | ONSITE https://gravitational.com Gravitational, an early stage systems & cloud startup in San Francisco and Toronto, is looking for ambitious and talented people. We are well-funded by fantastic Silicon Valley investors. We are an experienced team: we founded Mailgun[1] which was acquired by Rackspace, we created Vulcand[2] and some other cool stuff at Rackspace…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)”Submitted Mailgun ~finally~ gets a visual update as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGravitational (YS S15) | Systems Engineers & Devops | San Francisco & Berlin | ONSITE REMOTE https://gravitational.com Gravitational, an early stage systems & cloud startup in San Francisco, is looking for ambitious and talented people. We are well-funded by fantastic Silicon Valley investors. We are an experienced team: we founded Mailgun[1] which was acquired by Rackspace, we created Vulcand[2] and some other cool…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)”Submitted The seedy underworld of spammers and phishers as a story · 1 points
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