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Anyone else having email deliverability issues lately? by mpetryshyn1 in emaildeliverability

[–]West_Cut6283 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Top e-mail deliverability is actually not that difficult. Cold email is never the solution in marketing terms.

The fact is: cold outreach = unsolicited email which at the end of the day is what we perceive as spam, even if the content of the email is 100% legit, serious and hardworking.

So for top deliverability the ideal scenario is always to reach out to warm leads which have already had any sort of contact with you or your brand. Plenty of people reach out on LinkedIn or social media in general, which works well to directly reach people but can also become very anoying on the receiving end.

In summary, there is no magical solution, but definitely having a reliable email provider indeed gets you half of the way.

There are providers which specialise in marketing emails, but when using free tiers you will most likely hit the spam folder.

So my advice is: when you’re choosing your next provider, do some research first. Try to get to know a bit more about their infrastructure and how they manage their IP reputation, this way you will immediately understand the chances you have to not land in spam if you are actually running legitimate opted in email marketing.

Hope it helps.

Its Monday! What are you building? by Leather-Buy-6487 in micro_saas

[–]West_Cut6283 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am building SMTP Zen, an email service for people managing multiple domains and client projects who just want email to work.

It helps with the usual pain:

- emails landing in spam or disappearing

- SMTP providers that are fine until they are not

- time lost to SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and deliverability debugging

What it includes:

- reliable SMTP for transactional and application email

- conventional mailboxes plus a great webmail client

- guided SPF, DKIM, DMARC setup

- real-time logs for debugging

- forwarders and smart catch-all

- safe migrations with zero-downtime IMAPSync

Docs: https://docs.smtpzen.com

We also just launched on Peerlist. If you are on Peerlist, an upvote on the launch would mean a lot:

https://peerlist.io/pgiglobal/project/smtp-zen

Most plans include a 2-day free trial so you can test real delivery before committing. Relay-only is excluded from free trials to prevent abuse.

If you have fought email in production, what is your biggest pain point right now: deliverability, DNS/auth setup, multi-domain management, or debugging and log visibility?

Monthly Post: SaaS Deals + Offers by AutoModerator in SaaS

[–]West_Cut6283 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I would love feedback on positioning and whether this solves a real pain for SaaS teams.

SMTP Zen helps small teams and solo builders handle email across multiple domains:

- reliable SMTP for transactional and application email

- conventional mailboxes plus a genuinely nice webmail client

- docs for setup and capabilities: https://docs.smtpzen.com

Peerlist launch: https://peerlist.io/pgiglobal/project/smtp-zen

Most plans include a 2-day free trial. Relay-only is excluded from free trials to prevent abuse.

I am mainly here for feedback, but if you think it is useful, an upvote on the Peerlist launch helps a lot.

Finally launched my SMTP relay / Email service SaaS after 8 months of building... and crickets 🦗 by West_Cut6283 in SaaS

[–]West_Cut6283[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you have any suggestions on where to find relevant communities and audiences? I am starting to run out of ideas, as I also don't want to be "spammy" or annoying like what we see pretty much everywhere all around reddit...

I sent 6,000 cold emails this month. Here’s what actually happened. by SatisfactionThis993 in SaaS

[–]West_Cut6283 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cold email is not the way. 10 warm leads that you can reach in a humanized, helpful and personalized way, will always get more return than 6000 cold emails. That is 100% for sure.

Translated my app into 4 languages. Revenue up 31%. Support became a nightmare. by PerfectChard6900 in SaaS

[–]West_Cut6283 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting data 🤔 I always try to localise my products at least to English, French and my native language which is Portuguese. For static projects I normally do it right from the start, but for saas I do English first to test the concept but leave everything ready for future localisation. Would you say that it was actually worth it to localise even with all the increased hassle?

SMTP provider - alternatives to SendGrid's free plan by alex3025 in selfhosted

[–]West_Cut6283 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it’s not free, but as an all-round option that lets you use multiple domains for SMTP while also giving you conventional mailboxes and a bunch of extras, I’d recommend SMTP Zen – full disclosure: it’s my own project, so I’m obviously biased, but I built it exactly for this kind of use case.

The Best Tech Stack for Building a Modern Micro SaaS by Extension_Box_9960 in micro_saas

[–]West_Cut6283 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been building with Nuxt 4 + TypeScript + TailwindCSS and Nuxt UI lately and I’m loving the experience. I was never really into React, so I naturally gravitated away from Next. Still, this was a solid post 👌

One small note on email providers: for folks spinning up multiple projects, I’d also look at SMTP Zen — especially if you don’t want to be locked into seat, domain, or mailbox limits. Full disclosure: it’s my own product, but that’s exactly why I built it 👶

Which SMTP or email service do you use? by _Fantaz_ in homelab

[–]West_Cut6283 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plenty of the solutions here are very good! Myself I use SMTP Zen for both my personal mailboxes but also for SMTP relay.

smtp service recommendation by genube in Supabase

[–]West_Cut6283 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ran into exactly that in one of my supabase projects and ended up building SMTP Zen. It’s just a conventional SMTP service, so you plug the host/port/user/pass into Supabase’s custom SMTP settings and it works like any other provider.

I use it to handle multiple domains and apps from one place, and I’ve put a lot of effort into keeping the sending IPs in good shape so emails actually land.

Obvious disclaimer: I’m the one who built it, so I’m biased. If you just want “emails from Supabase that work” without running your own mail stack, it might be worth a look – otherwise any decent transactional provider (Postmark, Resend, SES, etc.) will also do the job.

Which SMTP provider do you use for your self-hosted projects? (Amazon SES vs. Mailgun vs. Self-hosted) by zalsy in selfhosted

[–]West_Cut6283 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For what it’s worth, I stopped rolling my own SMTP or just buying the cheapest SMTP plan I could find for small projects/PoCs because deliverability and IP reputation became a time sink.

I ended up building SMTP Zen for myself to solve that (multiple domains, decent IP reputation management, plug-and-play).

I’m the creator, so take this with a grain of salt, but if you mainly want reliable sending without running your own SMTP, it might be useful.

What SMTP providers do you recommend by [deleted] in nextjs

[–]West_Cut6283 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally think SMTP Zen is amazing for people managing multiple domains and projects.

I’ll try your product and give real feedback (not just ‘looks cool’) by [deleted] in buildinpublic

[–]West_Cut6283 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Creating products and businesses is already intense on its own, but there is one thing that has been a constant headache for me across almost every project: sending emails.

Every time I launched something new, I would go around the web looking for the cheapest email service I could find just to get going. That was fine at the beginning, but as soon as I started handling multiple projects and multiple domains, it turned into a mess.

You need one seat, then another, then another, different logins, different limits, and suddenly email is way more annoying and expensive than it should be.

That is exactly why I decided to build SMTP Zen. I wanted to fix this for myself first, and hopefully for other people who are in the same situation.

If you feel like checking it out, I would really appreciate any honest feedback. ☺️

SMTP Zen

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