Launch HN: Resend (YC W23) – Email API for developers using React

Post by explaininjs » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 12:59 PM UTC

KomoD wrote: post #257

ttul wrote: post #236

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We have a lot of anti-spam capabilities in the platform and if you abuse the service to send actual spam, your account may be rate limited or blocked. But if what you are sending is good email and we don't see signals to indicate it is abusive, then there aren't any limits on how much you can send.

But SPF and DKIM, how do I configure that?

Post by darepublic » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 1:37 PM UTC

Post by ignoramous » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 3:04 PM UTC

autonomousErwin wrote: post #253

pelcg wrote: post #30

> Why? When you look at all the biggest competitors like Sendgrid, Mailgun, Postmark, and SparkPost, you'll notice that they were all founded around 2009/2010, and they all have been acquired by now. Because of that, it's common to see them only prioritizing enterprise requirements and optimizing for sales-led growth. So does this mean that Resend won't get acquired? What is your exit strategy other than an acquisiti…

I think this might be a future pattern for a certain group of startups. Company X creates something useful and then gets a acquired but because of natural bureaucracy of large companies Company X slows innovation. In comes...Company Y who can rapidly innovate for a few years until inevitably they also get acquired, then comes Company Z who has the same logic for starting as Company Y and on it goes. This isn't necess…

Post by mediumdeviation » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 10:04 PM UTC

Rapzid wrote: post #254

mediumdeviation wrote: post #209

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FWIW the Tailwind implementation in react-email is not well done. The code double render React to static markup just to parse it into DOM then parse out the style and className attributes using a lot of regex https://github.com/resendlabs/react-email/blob/main/packages... . It's likely to be brittle and also very slow - slow enough to almost cause an incident when we tried to use it in production because emails were…

So weird, not sure what all the requirements are. I might just call "getComputedStyles" on the DOM elements and use that to generate inline styles for all the elements. I have to imagine there are existing tools for all this..

Post by herbst » Thu, Jun 15, 2023, 9:16 AM UTC

solardev wrote: post #67

mbesto wrote: post #33

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Ya, but why does a transactional email service have anything to do with the front-end....I feel like I'm missing something very obvious but I can't seem to figure it out...

Simpler websites often don't need a backend anymore (beyond automated, managed hosting). Many of them can just e a frontend package that can be deployed anywhere as static output files (CDN, any file host, Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare Workers, S3, etc.) In such a system, sending an email is traditionally a pain (well, email is always a pain, but even more so when you don't have a dedicated backend). Being able to fan…