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This is where I believe we are headed as well. Frontier models "curate" and provide guardrails, very fast and competent agents do the work at incredibly high throughput. Once frontier hits cracks the "taste" barrier and context is wide enough, even this level of delivery + intelligence will be sufficient to implement the work.
We reached some amount of early product-market fit and the “starter” stack that served us well early on: Vercel functions, Supabase Postgres, and a mix of queue services, started hitting limits. Function runtimes capped at 15 min, cron jobs had to be public, queues kept sun-setting, and the database had no automatic fail-over. We were spending more hours nursing infra than building features.
Over the next six months we rebuilt on plain AWS: EKS for the Next.js app, Aurora Postgres in-VPC, SQS for jobs, all managed with Terraform. A Cloudflare Worker mirrored an increasing slice of live traffic to Kubernetes until everything looked solid, then a DNS flip made it the source of truth.
Supabase data flowed into Aurora via logical replication; once lag was near zero we swapped the connection string and retired the old stack without users noticing. Costs are predictable now and we control most knobs.
We put this post together as a bit of a retro and to help if you're evaluating a similar path for your company.
We released an update to our pricing at Loops and along with increasing free limits, we made transactional email sending available at no additional cost on any paid plan.
We removed our previous plan tier of $1 per 2,000 sends.
Example:
You have 4,000 users and you send an automated onboarding email along with an occasional product update every month or two.
Your product also generates daily rollup emails, along with product notifications, and other standard transactional emails, maybe 100,000 emails a month total.
That's now available at the same price, just $49.
Say next month you gain another 500 users and you send 200,000 emails. That's still just $49 a month.
Our goal is to help you send all your emails from one platform for a single price point and this gets us one step closer.
We recently did some work improving our email deliverability to large institutions that use Rspamd as part of their corporate firewall, this is our write-up on that experience.
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I do think that the potential behind GPT-4V is a bit understated right now. Obviously, roasting emails is not the best use case but there are some really exciting ones I'm interested in seeing other folks build.
Thanks for the detailed feedback! We find that users start their company, use us for everything then never have to think about how to contact their users. Requiring a bring your own solution is great for more mature businesses but we’re targeting early stage right now and asking someone to signup for a second service to use ours feels like it may slow things down.
You could remove those contacts and not be charged for them however if you only email someone once that started a trial account you’re doing your business a disservice in our experience.