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by andris9 3y ago
Most EmailEngine's customers are small-ish SaaS providers (different kinds of niche CRMs, etc), and in their position, it is not really an option to spend time / risk breaking copyright protections. Instead, they pay the subscript
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I turned my open-source project into a full-time business(docs.emailengine.app)
663 points by andris9 3y ago|248 comments
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Parsing emails in Cloudflare Email Workers using postal-mime(docs.emailengine.app)
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Show HN: Postal-Mime, an email Parser for Cloudflare Email Workers(npmjs.com)
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My roles for running a 1-person startup(indiehackers.com)
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by andris9 3y ago
The wording is kind of ambiguous, but it seems that App-Specific Passwords will continue working > If you have scanners or other devices using simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) or LSAs to send emails, you’ll need to either: configure
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by andris9 3y ago
When I started with https://emailengine.app , a similar product, I also considered releasing it as a SaaS. But looking at the competition, it seemed too complicated for me (just look at the compliance list for Nylas Email API ht
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Show HN: Postal-mime, front-end email parser library(kreata.ee)
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by andris9 3y ago
Good question. People dealing with IMAP often get it wrong. Subscription in IMAP-lingo means if a mailbox folder is visible or not. Unsubscribe a folder - it is not visible in the folder listing. Subscribe to a folder - the folder is includ
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Show HN: ImapFlow, modern IMAP client for Node.js(imapflow.com)
3 points by andris9 3y ago|3 comments
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by andris9 3y ago
This is the free consumer Outlook. The "real" Outlook from the Office suite still supports IMAP and does not use the cloud.
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by andris9 3y ago
Multiple enterprise customers use my software ( https://emailengine.app ) because it can proxy OAuth2-enabled IMAP/SMTP connections as regular password-based sessions. Turns out there are a lot of legacy, like all kinds of cr
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Email Sending Guide for SaaS Builders(sending.guide)
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by andris9 3y ago
Elastic does a great job with it. My one-person company builds software that mirrors emails from IMAP accounts to ElasticSearch, and adding a vector search on top of that data to "chat" with emails was fairly simple. I was expecti
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Chat with Emails Using EmailEngine(docs.emailengine.app)
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EmailEngine – an email client but for apps, not people(emailengine.app)
2 points by andris9 3y ago|0 comments
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Packaging and Selling a Node.js App(docs.emailengine.app)
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Packaging and Selling a Node.js App(docs.emailengine.app)
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by andris9 3y ago
Resend seems to be a UI layer on top of SES, so it is probably not a competitor. People could use SES directly, but if the target group for Resend is a “modern front-end dev” then they probably do not want to, or do not know how to, and thu
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Extracting information from incoming emails using ChatGPT and EmailEngine(docs.emailengine.app)
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by andris9 3y ago
They changed the license for Falcon 40B today (a day later) to Apache 2.0 https://www.tii.ae/news/uaes-falcon-40b-now-royalty-free
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by andris9 3y ago
Well, yeah, there is no good reason tbh, I kind of haven’t just thought about this
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by andris9 3y ago
My main customer base is smaller SaaS services (less than 10 people), and this is the price that works for them or what they would expect - if they compare the costs of building in-house vs buying EmailEngine. Very small companies (single-p
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by andris9 3y ago
There's a fixed yearly subscription fee https://postalsys.com/plans There are no limits on how many EmailEngine instances you can run or how many email accounts you connect. So, I don't differentiate between custo
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by andris9 3y ago
EmailEngine has all the code public [1], even though it is not open-source but is source-available. Some core parts I even published under the MIT license, like the IMAP client library I built from scratch to serve the special requirements
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by andris9 3y ago
Most EmailEngine customers are smaller SaaS services like niche CRM providers etc. EmailEngine can also work with Gmail and MS365, as they support IMAP in addition to their proprietary APIs. So you get quite a large coverage by using EmailE
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by andris9 3y ago
I've written an overview about the differences between Nylas and EmailEngine here: https://docs.emailengine.app/emailengine-vs-nylas/ TL;DR Nylas is hosted service that does way more than just emails. Also, it syn
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by andris9 3y ago
Thank you for your inspiration!
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by andris9 3y ago
Compliance issues are a real concern. For example, I have some customers who switched from Nylas to EmailEngine because Nylas closed their Canada DC, even though EmailEngine is an inferior product. I'm not really worried about copycats
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by andris9 3y ago
Oh, yeah, I forgot my pitch. The link is https://emailengine.app - EmailEngine acts as a mail client, basically the same way Thunderbird runs on desktop, or the iPhone Mail on the phone, but instead of a GUI it has REST API and

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