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1. Bryan Robinson Bluesky 15 min later

   That's rough, y'all! Email is terrible. Here's to an even bigger launch when you get it squared away!

   1. Build Awesome Zach Leatherman Bluesky 20 min later

      Thank you Bryan! Email is terrible but also somehow the best option to escape a tight coupling to social media 🫣

      1. Bryan Robinson Bluesky 29 min later

         Things I've said in the past few weeks:

         "I used to hate for work email, but then I used Slack."

         "Social media was probably a mistake"

         1. Build Awesome Zach Leatherman Bluesky 36 min later

            These are all very accurate, yes

2. Christian Alder Bluesky 28 min later

   Sorry email let you down 😩 Must be a pain, but also kind of relief? to know that the lower-than-expected numbers had a reason.

   Best of luck on v2 launch! I will be there again, refreshing the page all day 😊

3. Max Fenton Mastodon 31 min later

   @11ty https://ismercuryinretrograde.com/ (sorry to see it)

   1. Build Awesome Mastodon 1 hr later

      @maxfenton so mercurial

      1. Max Fenton Mastodon 2 hr later

         @11ty Steve Jobs never launched a product during a retrograde.

         1. Build Awesome Mastodon 2 hr later

            @maxfenton NeXT.js

4. Mastro.{js,ts} Bluesky 1 hr later

   uh, sucks. you can also ask people to reply to your newsletter email. I heard that does wonders to the gmail spam filter.

   1. Build Awesome Bluesky 2 hr later

      yeah, good shout!

5. depone Mastodon 1 hr later

   @11ty sorry to hear.

   1. Build Awesome Mastodon 2 hr later

      @depone just a minor delay!

6. Peter Janes Mastodon 2 hr later

   @11ty Curious: if you were funded, wasn't that the point of the Kickstarter campaign? I know there were stretch goals, but why did being fully funded make it impossible to continue without a further direct email campaign? (To be clear: I'm not asking "why are you so greedy?", I'm just wondering why you felt 100% didn't mean success, and whether there's a different "100%" that you wanted to reach.)

   1. Build Awesome Mastodon 2 hr later

      @me that’s a fair question!

      Given this campaign and previous campaigns, in the Awesome org internally we know how successful it *could* be if the mailing list were operating as expected and we just want the opportunity to reach that full potential!

      1. Alex Hoyau Mastodon 3 hr later

         @11ty @me full potential of marketing..

         Will BA Pro be similar to @silex ? (but better and with marketing)

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8. Andreas Fink Mastodon 4 hr later

   @11ty gmail sucks because you cant even talk to a human to fix it. sfp set, dmarc set, siged, ssl, reverse dns all set. genuine business email. still happens from time to time and you have no clue why or who to talk to to fix it. gmail is to arrogant to respect RFCs stating a postaster adress exists exactly for such issues. thats why I recommend everyone to self host and not have gmail control your mailbox.

9. Build Awesome Mastodon 5 hr later

   Just a little update in video form too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWqP9fX9xn4

10. Build Awesome Bluesky 5 hr later

    Just a little update in video form too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWqP...

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