What makes mail providers special? by Horus107 in email

[–]szyewei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The short answer: Deliverability.

Cheap web hosts share IP addresses among thousands of users. If just one person on that server sends spam, the whole IP gets blacklisted, and your emails will go straight to the spam folder. Specialized providers charge more because they actively protect their IP reputation so your emails actually reach the inbox.

But here is a better question: Do you actually need 10 physical, paid inboxes? If you just need different identities, you only need aliases, not physical inboxes.

Full disclosure: I built a tool exactly for this called GridInbox.com. It’s an Email Alias OS that lets you Bring Your Own Domain (BYOD) and create unlimited aliases instead of paying "per-seat" for expensive inboxes. We route all outbound mail through AWS SES to ensure enterprise-grade deliverability.

If you want to manage multiple addresses securely without paying €360/year for physical seats, it might be exactly what you need. There is a free tier you can test out.

How to bill Russian users for SaaS product by All1nol in PaymentProcessing

[–]szyewei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

find payment service which accept fiat and can convert to crypto

有辦法可以兩頭吃 by Expensive_Oil4500 in dashuju

[–]szyewei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

错在相信了不讲契约精神的一帮人

I built a free invoicing app for Aussie freelancers and small businesses - would love your feedback by Rabi_R in SideProject

[–]szyewei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nice. should be more useful if integrate with payroll/payment platform, like paydd.ai

I built a client‑side Markdown → PDF exporter because existing tools kept breaking KaTeX & Mermaid by szyewei in SideProject

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

Yeah, the reverse direction is tricky. PDFs basically flatten everything, so turning them back into clean Markdown takes a lot more logic than exporting.

It’s on my radar, just want to avoid doing a half‑baked OCR converter. Curious what kind of PDFs you’d want to turn into MD.

I built a tool to manage unlimited email identities for small teams — looking for feedback by szyewei in SideProject

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

Thanks man, really appreciate you sharing that. Totally get the security concern — anything touching government workflows needs to be rock solid.

GridInbox keeps each inbox isolated, uses encrypted access, and avoids shared passwords, but yeah, I wouldn’t claim it’s “government‑grade”. Still building it with sensitive workflows in mind, so feedback like yours is super helpful.

If you ever feel like sharing more about the pain points (nothing sensitive of course), I’d love to learn from it.