From Show HN to Funding In Less Than 3 Months

[sunsu]

Looks very similar to https://www.postmaster.io/

[jstreebin]

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4598818

[mehulkar]

And then from HN Funding to Internal 500 Server Error in less than 42 minutes :p http://i.imgur.com/LxtdhqA.png

[jstreebin]

hahah, oops, we'll work on that. Thanks

[ebzlo]

One thing I'm always curious about is how you gauge success after a post on HN.

While I understand there are variables for every business, I literally have nothing to use as a gauge other than my own experiences.

So if you don't mind my asking, how many emails did you guys receive from being posted on HN?

[pan69]

This looks interesting but from this website I can't really distill what this service does, as in, what problem does it solve for me? Something with post and parcels etc. but it might be good to add a problem/solution section to your home page.

[jstreebin]

We make it easier to get postage via API. Existing postage APIs are difficult to integrate and have lots of errors. We take care of that and provide a RESTful JSON API with client libraries.

[mrchess]

Congrats! How long did you spend build EasyPost before doing the initial Sep. 18th launch?

EDIT: On a feedback note, 5% or less is very vague on the pricing page... Why not explain a bit further the upper and lower limits?

[jstreebin]

Thanks, spent several months working on it.

We're launching a pricing page shortly!

[nawitus]

I don't know why, but for some reason middle-clicking on a link does nothing on your page (instead of opening the URL on a new tab). I'm using Firefox.

[joncalhoun]

is this happening on all links or a few specific links? I am looking for the cause and I can't see any reason why this wouldn't work.

[jstreebin]

Hey, not sure but we'll look into this. Thanks

[retube]

This is an interesting concept. I wonder what other physical processes could do with an API?

[ajiang]

Potentially, you could buy a digital printer and create an API for physical mail. It could effectively change the direct marketing industry.

[jstreebin]

I agree, there's lots in the online/offline chasm that could be filled

[duck]

What happened to your original domain of easypost.co?

[jstreebin]

We pushed everything over to geteasypost.com. Why? You liked the old one better?

[danso]

Congrats, and thanks for the post and example of what a well-described product can achieve. What's interesting to me is that OP had no actual alpha/beta product, just: "a simple bootstrap site with an email form and code samples (which I mimicked based on Stripe’s)." The Show HN simply brought feedback and signups and a week later an investor made contact.

In the three months between the investor contact and actual funding, how much of your planned feature set had you implemented?

[jstreebin]

Thanks! We had most of what we planned to have done by that time. We fully launched a month later.