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by niftylettuce 1929 days ago
I'm a happy jQuery/Bootstrap user @ https://forwardemail.net.

The site scores ~100% on Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights and is ranked #1.

Open-startup @ https://forwardemail.net/open-startup!

Completely open-source too @ https://github.com/forwardemail

7 comments

Yes but if you’re not using the latest JS framework how do you get girls.
This. I was a happy Rails dev but html over the wire wasn’t cutting it at the club anymore. So I had to switch to React and now I’m married.

Just kidding. My wife loves Rails.

Jokes on you, html over the wire is HOT NEW SH*T.

https://hotwire.dev/

server-side blazor does similar.
never checked out web dev with dotnet, but maybe I will check out blazor I keep hearing cool things
You get a girl by going places where girls congregate at a similar or higher percentage to guys. Took me a while to figure that out... Anyway, I understand sarcasm, too.
Upvote. Made me literal lol.
Super cool. I really like that you can also reply using this service to each individual inbox. Like a universal inbox but not married to any specific client/app. Maybe suggest making that a little more easier to learn on your marketing homepage.

For your current users, are you seeing them use this more like the demo gym owner video or for other use cases? Thanks

So many cases. Some are using this on hundreds of sub-domains. I hope to launch SMTP and regex support soon. Then... it has final form, power level over 9000.
From your FAQ

> No. Prices will never increase. Unlike other companies, we will never shutdown our service either.

How can you guarantee this?

There are only two ways I think this can work.

Their price completely covers every user signed up at any scale. If they lose all but 1 customer, that customer can keep the lights with just their subscription.

The other is that company has such a large warchest it'd be impossible to run out of money.

I would not start this business if I could not keep it going. Period. Even beyond my lifetime. I keep things simple - when I started I had so many struggles, and wish something like this existed. I have contingency plans in place if something happens. My philosophy is outlined in the documentation for Lad.
Do you use automatic translation? At least the German version feels a bit odd.
Yeah, Google Translate via the npm package "mandarin" I made @ https://www.npmjs.com/package/mandarin. I planned to hire curators to go through the JSON files and clean it up - though I'm incredibly surprised that open source contributors have come forward (sometimes for their first time doing a PR) to submit fixes to locales. I give them free service for several years for their help.
Wow 15k??? That's impressive. I use another email forwarder but haven't been happy with it, maybe I'll switch.
Nice open start up page! Congrats on success, will be signing up for the free plan with my domain!
Offtopic but thanks for launching this.

A happy customer.

Very glad to have you Tycho.