16 engineers on Hacker News describe using Mandrill first-hand: 5 endorse it, 5 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“We moved off Mandrill back in 2016 when they changed their TOS effective immediately for one of their major use cases”
regret · production · ceejayoz · 2019-02-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use them for both marketing mass emails and for ingesting support ticket emails (I believe that's through Mandrill).”
regret · production · jrockway · 2018-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to Mandrill but that wasn't better because they were super-sensitive.”
regret · production · joering2 · 2018-04-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated 98% of our emails off Mandrill when they decided to screw all their customers and saved a ton of money.”
regret · production · scosman · 2016-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Mandrill was rock solid and we never had issues. We switched over to sendgrid after being pissed of with Mandrill due to their sudden change”
mixed · production · codegeek · 2016-07-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to Mandrill and noticed significant improvements.”
endorse · production · lyonlim · 2016-07-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Now it's 4/27 at noon and they are disabling sending through mandrill only accounts.”
regret · production · saluki · 2016-04-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Mandrill was way better, but now it looks like we need to move again.”
endorse · production · aquark · 2016-03-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“which magically disappeared once Mandrill was doing the sending.”
endorse · production · Legion · 2015-06-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used both in production and ended up moving everything to Mandrill in the end.”
endorse · production · dangrossman · 2015-06-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to Mandrill a few months ago and have been very impressed.”
endorse · production · gtaylor · 2014-03-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to mandrill because we don't want any drama with our vendors.”
neutral · production · adrr · 2021-01-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“so we switched back to Mailchimp/Mandrill.”
neutral · production · leftnode · 2017-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We had no choice but to switch to Mandrill.”
neutral · production · omfg · 2016-07-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Madrill for transactional email”
neutral · production · bikamonki · 2015-02-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We send an activation email via Mandrill.”
neutral · production · MicroBerto · 2014-06-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?