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hill_smith | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

hill_smith | 8 years ago | on: MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill

I think he must have a deployment script that generates all the database connection calls at the top of every file when he releases a new version. No one in their right mind would write code like that.

hill_smith | 8 years ago | on: MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill

This is true:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/dedicat...

I've had zero problems with Sendy and SES on my platform over the past 2 years.

hill_smith | 8 years ago | on: MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill

+0.5 for Sendy. I've been using it for http://www.tittietime.com quite successfully for 2+ years now.

There have been a couple of bugs that caused me to have to dig into the source code - which as others have stated, is a mess. Though I suspect its been purposely obfuscated to prevent pirating.

If you ever wonder what's going on in functions.php, I've unwound it a bit - you can see its making a phone home:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/cb21dfc35e1d4b74e136ebc694...

hill_smith | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

I'd also be happy to work with someone else on this. I'm a software engineer that would love to have a project to hack on that had revenue.

I have tons of ideas on how to monetize this, but am not really interested in being the face of it.

Someone to organize a street team that could engage 18-34's via wet tshirt bar meet ups or the like would be great. Or a writing partner as I've seen lots of growth when regular content is being generated.

hill_smith | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

Thanks :).

hill_smith | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

Yep, all submitted. I don't know that, but have the obligatory DMCA page. I've never been asked to remove one.

hill_smith | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

I guess I can understand why I'm being downvoted, but I'll share more info.

FYI, the homepage is SFW.

This was a goofy idea that I launched 2 years ago to test out Amazon SES and Sendy along with some content marketing skills I was wanting to put to use.

At the moment I spend ~10 minutes each morning making the email. When I do a shirt, I wind up spending ~ 20 hours sending out ones I've sold.

It's got ~10k subscribers who are all loyal fans (60% open rate on emails). I'm selling about 100 shirts everytime I post one for sale. I think there's tons of opportunity that I am not realizing as I've lost interest.

Happy to answer any other questions.

hill_smith | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

I'd love to sell Tittie Time

http://www.tittietime.com/

Edit: (other than the logo and name, the homepage is SFW)