Congratulations Zeno! What an awesome launch, really excited for you and the team at Resend.
Once we go for an email provider here, Resend will definitely be the first option.
Launch HN: Resend (YC W23) – Email API for developers using React
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#12I think if you’re targeting developers, SES is your biggest competitor. Their very cheap pay as you go pricing is more attractive than your monthly pricing. If email templates with react is your usp, I think I’ve seen libraries that offer that already.
Going against the cheapest in the market in a race to the bottom is a fool's errand
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#13I built something using react-mjml and storybook (storybook-server). It takes a bit of plumbing but the devx is very nice.
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#14Your competitors have been acquired but you are funded by YC… so there is a high chance this will happen to you as well. There isn’t much innovation happening since email is stable. I don’t want to design my emails in React, but I am probably not the target group since I am still running my own mail servers. Edit: What I meant by "email is stable" is basically the way email is being sent and not email itself and the…
Having worked with a few of them, currently with SendGrid I think the market is ripe for disruption. It’s a terrible, terrible, experience to work with these systems when you need e-mail visibility to play into a larger setup. We’re doing simple stuff, like giving our sales personal an information stream to track that links into their HubSpot and a few other systems, and it’s frankly so bad that one of our developers wrote as much of the business logic as was possible outside of SendGrid. I’m sure it works well for the IT services part of our operations, but for development and automation purposes when you need to put some gaffatape on all those 300 systems that your business bought. Then it’s not very good.
As far as being YC funded, well, that’s the purpose of HN isn’t it? I’m not personally convinced that you can’t maintain a good product after you getting acquired. I haven’t used these services enough to say, but maybe they fit into the market of their time, and has then failed to innovate or keep “great” in the decades that followed? If you ask our IT operations they will tell you that SendGrid is great.
Re: Launch HN: Resend (YC W23) – Email API for developers using React
#15Your competitors have been acquired but you are funded by YC… so there is a high chance this will happen to you as well. There isn’t much innovation happening since email is stable. I don’t want to design my emails in React, but I am probably not the target group since I am still running my own mail servers. Edit: What I meant by "email is stable" is basically the way email is being sent and not email itself and the…
Having worked with a few of them, currently with SendGrid I think the market is ripe for disruption. It’s a terrible, terrible, experience to work with these systems when you need e-mail visibility to play into a larger setup. We’re doing simple stuff, like giving our sales personal an information stream to track that links into their HubSpot and a few other systems, and it’s frankly so bad that one of our developers…
Out of curiosity, if you are spending a lot of effort to track the data in HubSpot, why not try to send emails directly in HubSpot?
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#16Help me understand the React selling point. Existing email sending software supports text and HTML because that's what email is. No email client out there supports JavaScript, virtual DOMs, event loops, SSR or any such fancy web technology.
Instead of hand-crafting an HTML template with
etc I'm supposed to use your custom React components ( ...) which you will promptly compile down to the tags I mentioned above. So...what value am I getting out of React at all?
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#17How does the react email templating work in non javascript backends? For example Rails?
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#18I have to say I'm impressed at the breadth of their SDK support (even Elixir) and how idiomatic they seem at first glance in each language (though too bad there's no python types yet).
Really nice to see all the examples too.
Pretty wild that in comparison, "Twilio Sendgrid" doesn't even have a single code snippet on their homepage, and once a Rubyist clicks "Least more" and scrolls they're greeted with this: `sg.client.mail._('send').post(request_body: mail.to_json)`
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#19How does the react email templating work in non javascript backends? For example Rails?
We render the React components on the server side.
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#20How long does it take to have my domain whitelisted? and should I be able to send emails under one domain? Do you support react-native? Can I send it from the backend (eg next.js server-side backend)? Is it for only transactional emails?
Thanks!