If you are not embarrassed... I am.
"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late." - Reid Hoffman
I always made the mistake of trying to create something really great and polished from day one. Today it's different:
I want to present you my next project I am working on - mailsyrup.com - The easiest email API for startups and Indie Hackers.
The product aim is to solve my own problem - back in a day I wanted to send decently looking transactional email ASAP for my side hustle but I didn't want to:
use big email provider (their onboarding process is long and tedious)
waste my time on writing responsive html from scratch
use any confusing drag-and-drop tool some email providers offer (I had to learn how to upload photos, how to use specific templating system, it was buggy)
The premise of Mailsyrup (mailsyrup.com) is simple: configure your visual brand identity and then send simple request to the API - we will generate the email for you! (Later we will also send the email ofc).
We have right now only 2 templates but this time I want to share the project with the world immediately.
I want to ask you for any feedback and maybe you can help me answering these questions:
Do you find the problem relatable?
How do you currently design and send transactional emails?
Looks great! Good job on shipping early. Just curious, how is this different from zepto email? I had the same struggle with transactional emails so find this very relevant.
Thanks. I have not used zepto personally but it seems to be a simple email API provider - you configure your domain and then you need to provide your html to be send with every request (you still need to design the email by yourself). As of today Mailsyrup and Zepto are complementary products: you can generate html with Mailsyrup API and then send it with Zepto.