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“There are few growth levers that could allow a single person to grow a startup from $0 to $1M ARR in months. There are fewer that could be done with nothing but an internet connection and a laptop—and virtually no budget. Cold outbound is one such lever.” za-zu.com/blog/playbook

@MgcLabs Glad you liked it! We found it difficult to get feedback and revenue from enough users to sustain development on it as a stand-alone product. We switched to using it to provide a premium email delivery service for sales teams in other software companies (Getlightmeter.com).

@LightmeterIO Ah that's too bad, its a really cool tool. Best of luck with whatever the newest endeavor is!

@LightmeterIO no more development? gitlab.com/lightmeter/con… :/

Gmail hack bypasses passwords and 2FA, targets Chrome and Edge, used on specific accounts, requires OS level compromise, most likely sponsored by North Korea www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.forbes… #Gmail #infosec #Security

And multi-host support has just been merged into Lightmeter Control Center after more than two years in the backlog 😊 Soon you can monitor many mailservers from a single Lightmeter instance #Postfix #SMTP

Spam blacklisting is out of control, says @hackernews. Lightmeter to the rescue!: ✅ Monitoring of >100 RBLs ✅ Show blocked mail ✅ Advice on delisting ✅ Soon: customize RBLs checked news.ycombinator.com/item?id=302227… #mailops #rbls

We had a great talk with Dutch hosting company CloudCat.nl and are happy to see Lightmeter supporting them in enabling high-deliverability hosted email for non-profit and other organisations in the Netherlands 🐱❤️

Interview by the EC's NGI about the challenges facing email, and how Lightmeter is helping: "When hosting email is as easy as hosting WordPress, then everyone can keep their private communications in a trustworthy place" #decentralized #dataSovereignty

We scanned the world's mailservers and found 92% of them running #OpenSource software - see what else was discovered in preliminary results just published lightmeter.io/mailmap-global… #SMTP #nmap #postfix

Greylisting introduces mysterious delays and colossal inefficiencies - our deliverability expert explains these and other issues in today's new knowledgebase article #greylisting #SMTP #deliverability lightmeter.io/knowledgebase/…

Did you know that email greylisting can be applied at five different stages of delivery & processing? Today's new knowledgebase article explains which produces the fewest false positives #Greylisting #SMTP #AntiSpam lightmeter.io/knowledgebase/…

Behind every email is a trail of Delivery Status Notification (DSN) codes, recording success or failure. But the terms are tormenting: is DSN just a code, a message, an "Enhanced code" (ESC), or all of the above? Our new dictionary reveals all lightmeter.io/knowledgebase/… #smtp

Making #OpenSource apps easy to update is really important. Case in point: #GitLab 😬 Only 21% of 60k public #GitLab installs have applied a critical 6 month security update thehackernews.com/2021/11/alert-… @Cloud68HQ

probably gonna start an interesting flamewar here "email has always provided most of the desirable properties that blockchains claim to provide"

Turns out 3m indie servers and 1m admins are good at keeping messages flowing. Ask your nearest email admin (don't ask Facebook) #resilience #facebookdown

When's the last time your mailboxes were down 5 hours? Time to show some love for ~1 million email admins who keep our inboxes flowing 24/7/365 😇 #facebookdown #smtp #linux

If WhatsApp infrastructure were owned by users, not Facebook, then #FacebookDown could only affect one household at a time. Communicating with family and work is too important to be the job of one company. Decentralize now! #EmailFTW

@oliverbeige That's true! The worlds largest comms network and identity database (both in one) seems like a great place to start 🚀

Crowdsourced M2M reputation management could be huge, even beyond email.

Nobody: "How come email never had a global outage?" 🤔 #FacebookDown

@WajahatAli No company should have this much power - global communications are too important for a single point of failure. Fortunately email has been decentralized and independently run for over 40 years. Check it out (for whatsapp over email try @delta_chat 😎)

Also, maybe Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram all going down at once is a good wake-up call that one company should not have THIS much power and control and influence over all of us, right?