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Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

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Re: Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

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Post by spongeb00b »

samdung wrote: post #85
nik736 wrote: post #25

The drag and drop part is not working for me, Firefox, macOS. I can click on the elements on the left and they will pop up, but I am not able to drag them onto the email.

although the name says 'drag and drop', it's not truly that. you click on any column in the designer and then select the component (heading, text, image, etc) in the left panel. you can then move components up and down using the arrows. we found this approach simpler than drag and drop, especially when designing long emails. let me know if drag and drop is something thats an absolute for you. we can bring it back.

UI-wise then I wonder if it would work better to have a "+" button inside each column, clicking that then gives a popover of available components right where you’re adding them.

Re: Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

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Post by carlosjobim »

samdung wrote: post #83
carlosjobim wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's distinctly uncool that this was published as open source. OP should charge money from all the swines that will use the software, including people like me.

go ahead and feel free to use it. that is what we intended it for.

I'm super down voted by open source enthusiasts who want free stuff, but I really think you should charge for this software. It's only going to be used by businesses, so they should pay for it. You wouldn't go to your local McDonald's and offer to work for free for them all day, would you?

Re: Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

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Post by deskr »

RamiAwar wrote: post #61

Anyone who has touched HTML emails knows the devilry involved. Kudos for developing and open sourcing this! Excited to try it out for my newsletter.

> knows the devilry involved

You're being too kind if anything. Whilst trying to bash HTML emails into something acceptable I questioned if my life wouldn't better have been spent as a monk in Tibet.

Re: Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

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Post by samdung »

carlosjobim wrote: post #93
samdung wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

go ahead and feel free to use it. that is what we intended it for.

I'm super down voted by open source enthusiasts who want free stuff, but I really think you should charge for this software. It's only going to be used by businesses, so they should pay for it. You wouldn't go to your local McDonald's and offer to work for free for them all day, would you?

Totally understand your point of view. HN community is largely well intentioned and net-net the software world is the better for it. The designer we have open sourced is part of our much larger communication platform (https://sendune.com).

Re: Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

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Post by samdung »

ibotty wrote: post #97

Is there some documentation on how to integrate it into a different web app? I would really like to open a template that is stored in the database and handle sending the mail, "exporting" (rename it to "save"), etc. Is that possible?

You can visit the following page for documentation on how to integrate it into your angular web app. https://www.npmjs.com/package/@send-with-ses/ng-email-design...

You can integrate your api call in the exportHtml() method to save it to your database. And you can load the same template into the component by providing it to [template].

ex:

Re: Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

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Post by rd »

gls2ro wrote: post #90
rd wrote: post #17

How does this compare to something like resend?

Is this a genuine question? I dont want to be rude but I dont understand how are you asking this? Just in case it is a genuine question: - This is a tool for designing/creating emails - they say in the title of this post "Open source HTML email designer" - Resend is a tool for sending emails: "Deliver transactional and marketing emails at scale" this is from the hero of resend homepage I dont know any of them, just o…

Do your research before responding to me next time. They're both email design tools - Resend is based around building your emails in React.
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