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  PJ Celis founded Judge.me, the reviews app on a lot of Shopify stores, where the plan is either free or $15 a month. The second product is priced differently: email is metered at 15 cents per 1,000 sent once you pass the free 15,000 a month, so this bill moves with the sending. The comparison a store will make is Klaviyo, which prices on how many contacts you hold rather than on what you send. Under the post a merchant paying about $2,300 a month for 750,000 emails a week asks whether he can move, and PJ puts 3 million emails a month at $450. The app has been listed since 14 July, he says it is still early, and a Klaviyo import is on the way. Plenty of the B2C founders here sell on Shopify with Judge.me already installed.

  PJ Celis 6h

  After 12 years of being focused on just reviews, we're adding a second product: @judgeme Email.

  Priced super low: 0-15 USD / month for features, 15K emails per month for free, then 15 cents per 1000 emails.

  That's 10x cheaper than the competition. Even compared to Shopify's own Email app, we're 85% cheaper.

  The product is in early stages, but we're adding features constantly. The price will never go up as we add value, as we optimize for market share, not profit.

  After you install the app, you'll be able to request a call with our team to go over your email marketing needs and your setup.

  Very excited to have this app live, and if you're a Shopify merchant, hope to see you soon!

  apps.shopify.com Judge.me Email - Email marketing done well: email campaigns, popups, automation | Shopify App Store

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  Akash Radadiya runs Clay Club Surat, the Surat chapter of Clay's GTM community. This is his thank-you after its first events.

  Akash Radadiya 7h

  when life throws Clay at you, make it a club & turn it into a clay [club] surat.

  to the GTMers of surat, a huge thanks for embraching this community. 🫶

  this is thankspamming post, so bear(or bull!) with me.

  first of all the reason of kickstart - Gaurav & Veeral. they acted as silent supporters, kinda batmen. the initial push that gave the initiative the nitro booster.

  Super host Piyush for joining hands from day one even without meeting ever before. Nency for bringing all her youth energy & wisdom. Smit for being that calm vro!

  our abvove & beyond volunteer (assistanto manager) Vijesh & Vraj Chaubal. super thanks to Unaish for helping us run the smoother operations in the first event.

  to all the Surati participants who attended the events & making this place worth coming back to. to all the participants who traveled to surat to learn & share. 👾

  to all the speakers Snehal, Mehul, Nishant, Varun, Neel & Sahil for sparing time for this infant community.

  a HUGE thanks to everyone from clay education/community team because of whose direct/indirect support, we were able to keep doing this: Izzy, Siya, Yash, Munnawar, Owen & Shriya Nevatia.

  'shat shat koti pranam' to all the venues who opened their space for us - Aureate Labs, Yanolja Cloud Solution, Wizcoder AI Labs & WebContrive | Shopify Plus Partner Agency

  to local communities that gave us their unwavering support: Manoj - eChai Ventures & Gopal - Surat IT BDM Community

  and, to all the clay communities across the world doing awesome things which we're not even remotely close to.

  and sincere apologies at any given point of time, we were unable to meet your expectations. we'll keep getting better!

  onwards & upwards! 🫡

  p.s.: if i've missed on tagging you by any chance, feel free to self-tag in comments. 😜

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  Josh Elman is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He backed Discord and Musical.ly at Greylock and led product at Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Robinhood. He posted this as a thread of four tweets, which reads here as one.

  Josh Elman 15h

  Been thinking about “pivots” today.

  Many of the best companies I have been lucky enough to get involved with are pivots.

  Fates Forever (game) -> Discord
  Cicada (education) -> Musical.ly
  Fanbase (sports fans) -> Nextdoor
  Odeo (podcasts) -> Twitter

  These are all great outcomes and durable companies.

  In each case a strong team formed and built something together. It was an interesting and strong product but didn’t catch on.

  Instead of giving up, the teams kept going. Decided to find something new. Follow new threads.

  In the case of each of the pivots, they immediately could sense the difference and the product started engaging users. Communities formed. Retention persisted.

  Because they had done the first, they were better off the second time and knew to lean in

  So if you don’t get it all right in your first product, don’t give up. If you have a great team together, lean in to what you like, what you have learned, and go for something new. You’ll know when you know.

  And I feel lucky to have been part of these journeys

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