I turned my email automation tool into a full-fledged email platform

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Around 10 months ago, I published a tool I made ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32229278 ). I was scouring the market for an affordable and easy-to-use email automation tool, to no avail. The solution? I decided to just build it myself. Since then, I've added the ability to send transactional and broadcast emails, threw out the subscription pricing and turned it into a usage-based model, etc. In short, turned it into a full-fledged email platform designed for SaaS. With this post, I would like to share my learnings, findings... Ask any question and I'll answer it to the best of my ability. Thanks to the feedback of the HN community, I was able to turn this into something that I am still proud of every single day. A sincere thank you from my side.

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