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thank you to everyone who's tested the tools
thousands of domain checks through our free tools in the past few weeks
every check that surfaces a misconfigured SPF record or a missing DMARC policy is a small win
some of you have emailed me directly with questions
if you've been using the tools and found value, I'd genuinely appreciate you sharing them with a colleague who manages domains
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why $69/month and not $240.
pricing a bootstrapped product is a values decision.
I looked at what dmarcian charges: $240/month for 8 domains covering 5 protocols.
I looked at Valimail: $5K+/year, enterprise sales process.
I priced DMARCguard Pro at $69/month for 10 domains and all 9 protocols.
more domains, more protocols, per-domain pricing lowers. no punishment for growth.
https://dmarcguard.io/compare/
#DMARC #EmailSecurity #BootstrappedStartup #SaaSPricing #IndieFounder
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22 RFCs and counting
DMARCguard references 22 RFCs across its protocol implementations
not as marketing decoration, but as implementation guidance
when I started building the SPF flattener, I re-read RFC 7208 three times to get the macro expansion edge cases right
the ARC chain validator follows RFC 8617 to the letter on seal validation ordering
#DMARC #EmailSecurity #RFC #BootstrappedStartup #Engineering
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named senders changed everything.
every platform shows you IPs.
I wanted to see names. Mailchimp, Google Workspace, Salesforce, SendGrid. not CIDR blocks.
so I built a sender identification system.
it maps IPs to known ESPs and cloud providers automatically.
when you look at your DMARC report in DMARCguard, you see "Mailchimp sent 4,200 messages, 98% aligned". not a wall of numbers.
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the free tier bait-and-switch is killing trust in the DMARC market
I designed DMARCguard's free tier to be permanently useful:
- 7 protocols
- 2 domains
- 30 days retentionenough to help you decide whether it's the right tool for your organization
the pro tier adds:
- 2 more protocols (DANE, ARF)
- $6.9/domain until 10 domains, then $4.9/domain, no punish for growth
- and advanced monitoring -
I built DMARCguard because every DMARC tool told me what happened
never what to dothat's the core philosophy I built DMARCguard around:
tell me what to do, not what happened9+ protocols
28+ free tools
23+ RFCs referenced
no VC funding
no enterprise sales teamjust a product built by someone who got tired of translating XML into action items at 2am