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Why email startups fail

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140 points skeptrune | 1 comments | 01 Jul 25 00:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.473s | source
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chevman ◴[01 Jul 25 02:20 UTC] No.44429983[source]▶
What's left to conquer in email land?

Most of the large marketing ecommerce/enterprise market was captured via ExactTarget/Salesforce, Oracle/Responsys/Eloqua, IBM/SilverPop/Acoustic, Adobe/Neolane/Marketo by the mid 2010's.

SendGrid/Twilio was another a few years later, Amazon SES is ok, then you have some of the smaller market players (MailChimp, Constant Contact, etc).

Hard to scale/grow a startup in any real way when there are so many fairly well entrenched solutions across industries and company sizes.

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1. turnsout ◴[01 Jul 25 13:36 UTC] No.44433798[source]▶
There’s still a huge opportunity for AI. The way it’s used currently (sorting & drafting replies) is barely scratching the surface. Until you can literally turn your mailbox over to AI the way you would with a human assistant, email UX is not a solved problem.