Hi everyone !
TLDR; I coded an application for a simple email sending, and I'm checking if I'm not coding something nobody wants.
I'm Yusuf and I'm freelancing from France since 2016 ✌️.
I'm working mainly on web & mobile apps.
And I worked for clients and for different personals projects for many years.
I often have to make websites / landing pages for my projects or for clients, and naturally, theses needs a contact form that send an email with a message from the website visitor, right ?
First solution: Use emailling services
We all know the main challengers out there: Sendinblue, Mailchimp, Mailjet etc
Theses are built for marketers actually, with campaigns management, bulk sending, etc...
- Creating a profile for each project / client: Time consuming
- Email configuration, settings: More time consuming
- Creating templates, setting up variables: So much time consuming
- I just want to send an email with a message field: Too much options
Second solution: Code my own backend server
There is the steps:
- Develop the backend app with the language/framework of your choice.
- Install many packages.
- Code, code, code
- Deploy
- Heroku has no more free plan
- Search for an alternative
- 3 days later: still runs on localhost
Third solution (mine hehehe pls read)
I developed a minimalist app to relieve the pain from all of us, front end developers.
Pros
- Only the basic features that matters.
- Create many emails & test in less than 30 seconds.
- Google or SMTP
- Pre-rendered email HTML template
- Manage access tokens
- Free for personal use
The Cons
- No bulk send options
- No campaigns
- Not mailchimp
How ?
Steps:
- Register
- Fill the required fields to create an email instance.
- Create a token & send a test mail.
- Copy the integration example depending on what language you use.
At the end, it consist of 1 URL that you POST your message with a Bearer token. And voila ! The email is sent !
When ?
I'm in the process of finalizing the app right now
I'm also checking if people might want to use / test it, so feel free to drop a comment to support !
Screenshots
Peace form France ! ✌️
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