Get first $29 payment for Basic submission (used to be free) #betalist

Remove free option and replace with $29 fee to submit your startup, because we're receiving too much AI slop now and we need a filter #betalist

Reject a few hundred submissions that were using non-custom domain name #betalist

Block submissions that don't use a custom domain name, but free hosting such as *.vercel.app etc because 99% of the time these are low-effort submissions that get rejected anyway #betalist

Add filters to my SES dashboard #betalist

Build Postmark-like UI for Amazon SES so I can actually see what's happening, because Amazon SES does not provide it #betalist

Switch from Postmark to SES for transactional emails and notice emails arrive instantly #betalist

Get production access to SES #betalist

Celebrate 15-year anniversary 🥳 #betalist

Build AI-powered edit review system so that founders can easily make minor edits to their startup posts, but if there's a huge change then it gets flag for admin approval first #betalist

Remove all email addresses from the site and force people to contact us through betalist.com/contact (requires login) to prevent spam and so many startups randomly signing us up to their email newsletter (??) #betalist

Add "Request edit" button to startup post itself as that's probably where most users expect to see it #betalist

Add betalist.com/support with searchable, common FAQs #betalist

See submission edit requests went down a lot when we introduced it as a self-serve option a while ago #betalist

Do in-depth AI analysis of 3,000+ support tickets and generate report and next actions on how to reduce unnecessary support load (through product improvements, clarification of certain policies, directing users to self-serve account deletions, etc) #betalist

Automatically send reply to support email with FAQ #betalist

Don't start emailing newsletter to new subscribers until at least a full day has passed since they signed up #betalist

Fix darkmode for login/signup pages h/t @PBertrand #betalist

Automatically add submitting user as a "maker" of the startup they are submitting #betalist

Set new newsletter system as default for new subscribers #betalist