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I don't use your tool and I'm unrelated to CSMastermind, but I can tell you that you absolutely hit the "spam cannon" too hard. 5 messages in 48 hours? That's absolutely ridiculous. They could all have been 1 message if it was important that they get that info, and it could have been 0 messages if it wasn't.


You are correct. I will figure out two things.

1. Why our fancy expensive mailing/marketing tool (Intercom) does not spread these messages in a relaxed fashion (it should)

2. If of those five messages, maybe two were the obligatory "confirm your email" and standard "Welcome to Checkly, this is what we do"

TL;DR we should not spam.


We checked our Intercom. We spammed. One user got six emails in a 5 day span. There were some separate initiatives going on. We didn't check the settings and current outgoing mail. We will change it.

BTW: all of this was done without any bad intent. It's 100% us being stupid and not coordinating and being diligent enough.


This is such an impressive series of responses. I know some folks are flipping you shit here, but I’ve seen a lot of people try to “engage” with customers, in HN and elsewhere, and I think you’ve done it really nicely. You sound like a human; you admit mistakes; you follow up. Good on you.


Send a seventh to apologize! /s

(on a serious note, good on you for taking action though. +1)


You only get one chance to make a first impression.


>You only get one chance to make a first impression.

Well, this person had 6 first impressions.




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