Category Archives: Guest Post
Guest post: SendGrid takes the Cake[PHP] when it comes to SMTP
The following is a guest blog post from one of our customers and community members, Dave Loftis. Dave is an independent developer, and co-founder of VarVee.com and MyD8.net. You can check out his blog at blog.lofdev.com.  If you’re a PHP developer who is building a large Internet application, or even a small one, using CakePHP, you have undoubtedly taken a look at Cake’s built-in Mail component. The built-in component is simple and powerful, and it works well for most things you might do. It’s really great for sending “welcome-to-X” or “forgot-your-password” emails. But, once you deploy and start using things…
READ MORE »Leveraging SendGrid’s Event API
This guest post is from H. Wade Minter at TeamSnap, a SendGrid customer. TeamSnap is a web/mobile tool to help keep sports teams and social groups organized. With that mission, email deliverability is critical. Our users send a lot of email, most of it important team-related business We need to make sure that the email gets delivered, as well as watch out for bouncing addresses or spam complaints. We don’t want to get blamed when someone shows up at the wrong field because they didn’t get the email that their coach sent out. Keeping our deliverability numbers high is paramount,…
READ MORE »NYT’s Study Showcases the Importance of Email Infrastructure
Exactly how and why do we share online content? That is what the New York Times and Latitude Research set out to discover in their 2011 study, “The Psychology of Sharing.” Surprisingly, during their survey of 2,500 self-described “medium-to-heavy content sharers” they found that good, old fashion email continues to be the number one sharing tool. Yes, the younger you are the more likely you are to utilize Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or something similar as a communications tool, but email for the most part remains the most popular way users choose to share news.
READ MORE »Vanilla Forums: Parse API FTW!
This is a guest post from one of our users, Tim Gunter, Senior Systems Analyst at Vanilla Forums. Tim caught my attention with a recent tweet that read (and I quote), “I. Love. @SendGrid. Parse API so damned fantastic, I want to get an “I <3 Parse API” tattoo on my FREAKING FACE!” Later that night, our API had Tim feeling like the “Lord of the internets”. As soon as I saw this, I had to learn more about the experience that inspired such excitement, and within hours Tim had sent me the story below… Related PostsParse API: Oh, What You…
READ MORE »Ecquire and SendGrid team up to make productivity happen
This is a guest post written by Tal Raviv, Chief Bug Creator at Ecquire At Ecquire we believe the most important measure of a product is its referability. We don’t use words like “finished” or “minimum viable product” or “good enough” It’s either referable or it’s not. A user either feels confident enough to put their reputation on the line for your product – or your marketing is going to be very expensive. How do you measure referability? Aside from metrics like retention and observing growth and sources of growth – there’s an extremely direct way to do this… let your…
READ MORE »Wedgi.es – Simple Surveys That Use SendGrid
Back in September, at the fantastic ReCommerce Hackday, I hung out with Jimmy Jacobson and Porter Haney, the guys behind Wedgi.es. Wedgi.es is a lightweight social application that lets you easily poll your friends via twitter. Porter told me he was addicted to the Wedgi.es email updates that they had implemented using SendGrid, so I asked Jimmy and Porter if they’d write about their application and experience for our blog. They obliged, so we are very pleased to present a guest blog post from Wedgi.es! Related PostsFive Design Tips for Optimal Email Deliverability
READ MORE »TheBirdy.com: using email for personal finance management
A few weeks ago, Brandon and I went to New York City for Startup Weekend. I had stopped by the previous SW NYC when I was there for Internet Week and API Hackday, and I was instantly impressed. I’ve been to a few Startup Weekends in Boulder and Denver, but never had I seen a crowd this large. Nor had I witnessed the level of energy that was in the General Assembly office that Friday evening. As I walked out of the event that night, I decided we would definitely be back for the next SW in the city. It was…
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