Monthly Archives: September 2011
Recap of ReCommerce hackday in Las Vegas, Nevada
How many hackdays have you been to that include ziplining across 800 feet above a downtown parade? That’s how we kicked things off in Las Vegas for Recommerce Day, a hack event with a focus on retail and sponsored by a lot of great companies and API providers, including Zappos, Mashery, Twilio, Etsy, and Klout. There were 19 incredible hacks presented and a lot of great prizes were given away. The winner for Most Fun and Weird went to Rotten Huevos from @harmophone, a web app that uses the Rotten Tomatoes API to check the movie you’re about to watch, and then orders…
READ MORE »Announcing Improved Heroku Integration
We are pleased to announce some improvements for SendGrid users on Heroku. We’ve increased email credits across the board, refreshed our suite of plans, and have enabled some additional features. Heroku users can now manage their sub-users via our API, and all users on the Silver plan and above have access to dedicated IPs for their accounts. Heroku and SendGrid’s partnership started in 2009 while SendGrid was still in the TechStars program. Heroku and SendGrid have both grown from tiny startups sailing the untested seas of the cloud services market to proven market leaders. Before Sendgrid had a proper logo, we had…
READ MORE »Bookmarklet for Exporting Email Activity to CSV
Brett Zink at yottaflow has created an awesome bookmarklet that allows you to export your email activity results to a CSV file. Use the search bar to filter the data however you want, and then click on your new Bookmarklet. The Bookmarklet opens in a new window with all the data reformatted into CSV. The first time you use it you’ll probably get stopped by your pop-up blocker. Just allow pop-ups from sendgrid.com and try again. This is a handy tool for getting your results into Excel. Our development team is working on adding an export to the Email Activity page but in the…
READ MORE »SendGrid supports launch of This Week in TechStars
The This Week in… web series has been a great source of free online content for years now. Because of the value we see in independent media such as this, we’ve supported Jason Calacanis and his show This Week in Startups in the past. Related PostsThis Week In Startups: Refer.ly Helps You Earn Cash For Recommendations API Recipe: Pinch of Twilio + Dash of SendGrid Email More Faster: How SendGrid Applied the 7 Keys to Startup Success Special Thanks
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