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Re:We redeemed our $10K AWS credits. It was a mistake. on Monday November 27, 2023 @06:24PM (#38440007)
Now I realize the same too. The bigger the upfront discount, the more services you might end up relying on in the year. Then all of a sudden, the things you built your business on, cost real money and real fast.
Re:Show HN: I Built "Spotify Wrapped" but for SEO on Monday November 06, 2023 @03:15PM (#38168312)
hey everyone! I do a lot of seo work for my blog saasbase.dev. Wanted to show it off in a cool way so I built more of an SEO scorecard that looks like the Spotify Wrapped you get at the end of the year.

I used Framer Motion for the animations, Google Search Console for the data and Next.js for the front end.

Would love to get some feedback :)

Yep no processing fee.

Same as with Venmo, if you paid a fraudulent request, that'd be on you. There's nothing to recover because the transfer was successful.

Re:Launch: Brix – Full stack crypto payments solution on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @08:39PM (#29817996)
You should def add more details to the demo images. It's hard to understand what they are portraying.

I'm trying to build a product that needs crypto financial rails like you're describing. One of the bigger challenges is taxes and overall legal implications. Would your product be handling that as well?

Not enough resources.
We did everything manually so it got very time consuming. The next step is build out a scalable version which we haven't yet.
Just moved to SF, but Toronto I was working on the same problem - we built milna.cc and the model worked pretty well. Happy to chat more :)
Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:56PM (#25696659)
HTML body and unsubscribe option available in 1.0.8 now.
Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:49PM (#25696590)
Added in 1.0.8. There's an in-memory list we keep of unsubscribed users. Anyone on that list will stop receiving all communications immediately.
Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:57PM (#25588300)
I share your concern completely. This is just something hacked together over a christmas weekend. The points you mentioned definitely need to be addressed before this library can even be called production-ready.

Though I would push back on the notion that because the problem is big and big players already do the job, why even try. There's a huge number of indie hackers, bootstrappers with small projects that can definitely benefit from an open source solution like this than have to pay $30/month.

I have already tabulated the items needed to make this a quality package and not just another hacky js library. I would invite you to keep track of the project and keep us honest :)

Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:15PM (#25584283)
That library is incredible! Will definitely be using it.
Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @11:11AM (#25582868)
Yep super.so as well. We got early bird pricing as well so super happy. Notion + Super makes it really easy to iterate on landing page copy without the hassle of deployments, styling etc. God Bless them!
Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @11:10AM (#25582853)
Ahh thank you for the clarification @dceddia.

1. Yep that makes perfect sense. A persisted file keeps the data and the SqLite provides an easy interface to work with.

2. I mistakenly thought it wasn't important. But I've moved it to the top of the backlog, should be available soon.

3. This is gold. Looked into transactional emails and that's exactly what's needed. Moreover, there's projects like nodemailer-mailgun-transport that will make this easier.

Cheers!

Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @10:18AM (#25582350)
Overwhelming support for Unsubscribe. Moved higher in the issue backlog!
Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @09:56AM (#25582179)
Hey Yaro! Appreciate the support
Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @08:27AM (#25581455)
No unsubscribe options as of now. For now, its left to the dev's discretion to not send annoying emails.

Though this sounds like a feature of a more managed solution. I know MailChimp has this out of the box (and possibly other providers).

Since this library is supposed to provide email automation capability, I'm not sure options like Unsubscribe should be part of the library.

What do you think? Definitely open to ideas.

Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @08:09AM (#25581332)
Yep it's definitely dangerous. By design, you cannot turn on 2FA when using this setting. @NKCSS mentioned that you can send emails without touching this setting. That might be a more secure alternative.
Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @08:06AM (#25581300)
Hey keyle, your points are right on the money. 1. sqlite is a great idea for persistence. It would be an in-memory db right?

2. There is a stop method already. I should do a better job of highlighting that in the README. But you can stop all messages from being sent out by: mailcandy.stop() or you can clear all the upcoming messages while keeping the timer going by: mailcandy.clearAllScheduledMessages()

3. Added to backlog. Are there any mail servers you would like to see?

Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:50AM (#25581214)
I would definitely like to add some persistence in case the app crashes. What's better in this case - To use localStorage or save in a file? Any other ideas?
Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:46AM (#25581200)
Currently only gmail since it was the easiest to implement. I would love to add more providers for better deliverability and overall not-going-to spaminess (not ideal to send bulk emails from personal gmails). What providers would you like to see?
Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:43AM (#25581184)
Good catch. That's definitely my mistake. Fixed!
Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:39AM (#25581148)
I was worried about the username/password too. Interesting, so you're generating a Client secret and using the Google package to send emails. That snippet helps a lot! Also found the relevant guide for Node.js - https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.mailtrap.io/send-emails-wi...

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