Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails
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#2Hey! I am one of Mail Studio's authors. Will be happy to answer any questions.
Re: Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails
#3Hey! I am one of Mail Studio's authors. Will be happy to answer any questions.
Electron or React Native? Why?
Are you planning to support seamless integration with ESP so that the entire lifecycle from design to sending emails is supported?
Re: Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails
#4Hey! I am one of Mail Studio's authors. Will be happy to answer any questions.
Do you help users ensure your emails degrade gracefully when remote images aren't loaded or HTML email is disabled?
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#6This looks really neat. I've spent _way_ too long on custom HTML for email signatures and email content without any tooling.. just an editor, some inline styles and a whole lot of pain. Looking forward to trying it out. No idea how y'all were able to figure out how to compile the dev-written code down to email-compliance for renderers as far back as you have, but kudos if it all works well. I could never get over how many different renderers and versions there are in the wild. Email is a TOUGH place for styling and it seems like Litmus just dominates everything else in the marketplace.
Re: Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails
#7Hey! I am one of Mail Studio's authors. Will be happy to answer any questions.
Electron or React Native? Why? Are you planning to support seamless integration with ESP so that the entire lifecycle from design to sending emails is supported?
The application is built on Electron. I think that visual editors like Mail Studio are one of the cases where this choice makes sense, since you are editing a live HTML page. You would need some a webview regardless of platform, but Electron makes the implementation easier.
At the moment, we support ESP syncing, which create/update a template on the linked platform. You can then use it as the basis of a campaign.
Re: Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails
#8Hey! I am one of Mail Studio's authors. Will be happy to answer any questions.
@martinaglv Sorry if this is a silly question: my day job is at a non-profit, would that be considered commercial or non-commercial use? Your tool seems very neat, so I would like to ensure compliance with your licensing/pricing. Thanks!
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#9HTML in email is legacy hell. I wonder if someone wants to create a new MIME-type like text/html+css, and clients who want can implement it.
In theory you could have representations of the message like video/mpeg4 and text/plain, and depending on the client capabilities and configuration, the receiver could watch a video or read plain text. The information content of the 2 (or more) don't even have to be the same! Found this out when trying to parse text out of emails into a CRM system, another system sent information in the HTML part, but an empty plaintext part.
Re: Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Electron or React Native? Why? Are you planning to support seamless integration with ESP so that the entire lifecycle from design to sending emails is supported?
The application is built on Electron. I think that visual editors like Mail Studio are one of the cases where this choice makes sense, since you are editing a live HTML page. You would need some a webview regardless of platform, but Electron makes the implementation easier. At the moment, we support ESP syncing, which create/update a template on the linked platform. You can then use it as the basis of a campaign.
Why not a web app then?