Introducing centralized support across Empinet products
We’ve launched a single support hub for all Empinet products. You can now reach it from your product dashboard with automatic sign-in.
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Introducing centralized support across Empinet products
We’ve launched a single support hub for all Empinet products. You can now reach it from your product dashboard with automatic sign-in.
Catch-All Detection & SMTP Verification
If you've ever cleaned an email list and still ended up with unexpected bounces, you already know the problem. An email address can look perfectly valid. It can pass format checks. The domain can have proper MX records. Everything seems fine… until you actually send. That gap between "looks valid" and "actually deliverable" is exactly why we added Catch-All Detection and full SMTP checks to the PRO plan. Because basic validation just isn't enough anymore. The Catch-All Problem Nobody Talks A...
Increasing Free Tier Limits on EasyEmailAPI
When we introduced authenticated access to the EasyEmailAPI free tier, the goal was to make the service more reliable and fair for everyone using it in real production flows. Since then, we’ve been closely watching how the API is being used. At its core, EasyEmailAPI focuses on email validation done right. Instead of stopping at basic format checks, it evaluates whether an address is realistically usable in real systems. That includes verifying domain DNS and MX records, detecting disposable a...
Introducing Authenticated Access for the EasyEmailAPI Free Tier
EasyEmailAPI was built to solve a very specific problem: reliable email verification that’s easy to integrate and fast enough to run in production. Over the past weeks, usage of the API has grown steadily. We’re now seeing a consistent stream of requests coming from real-world systems, including user registration flows, checkout processes, newsletter signups, and internal validation pipelines. In other words, EasyEmailAPI is no longer just being tested. It’s actively protecting live systems.
When Frontends Ignore Translatability, Users Pay the Price
Most people don’t think about website translation until they suddenly need it. I didn’t either, at least not until I moved to Germany and realized how many sites here still don’t offer an English version. At first you shrug and think, fine, the browser can translate for me. Modern tools are pretty good, right? Then you hit the first broken select input. Or a button that changes meaning entirely. Or worse, you submit a form with the wrong data because something in the shadow DOM didn’t get tran...
Why Email Validation Matters for Modern Businesses
Email remains one of the most reliable channels for acquiring customers, nurturing relationships and driving revenue. Even with the rise of social media, messaging platforms and ads, email still performs better than most channels when it comes to actual conversion. It only works well, however, when the email list is healthy. A large percentage of businesses don’t realize how much poor email quality quietly damages performance. Invalid addresses, temporary inboxes, throwaway accounts and mistype...
Easy Email API is a lightweight, developer-friendly Email Verification and Validation API designed to help businesses, SaaS projects, and web applications maintain clean, deliverable user lists. It streamlines the process of checking email addresses at the point of capture, helping avoid invalid sign-ups, disposable or spam-prone addresses, and undeliverable mailboxes. Under the hood, Easy Email API performs multiple layers of verification including: * Email syntax and domain validity checks...
How to Scale Software Projects Without Hiring Full-Time Engineers
Hiring full-time engineers sounds like the obvious next step when a company starts to grow. But in many cases, it’s not the smartest one. Teams often discover that what they really need is scalable engineering capacity — not more employees, management layers, or long-term commitments. After more than ten years helping startups and SMEs scale their systems, I’ve seen that it’s possible to move faster, stay flexible, and keep costs under control without building a full in-house team. Here’s how.
Why Freelancers Build Faster: Lessons From 10 Years in Software
Most companies think hiring a freelancer is just a temporary fix, something to fill the gap until they find the right employee. After more than a decade in software engineering, I’ve learned that the reality is often the opposite. Freelancers tend to build faster, more efficiently, and with fewer dependencies than most internal teams ever can. I’ve seen this proven across startups, SMEs, and even high-traffic platforms processing billions of requests per day. Here’s why freelancers often delive...
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