Emailyt

Yesterday we launched Emailyt on Hacker News and got to the front page! Overall it resulted in 6,000 pageviews and almost 100 new signups. Here are three lessons I learned:

Refine your website before launching. There were several typos and errors on my site that I could've fixed beforehand if I'd asked a few friends for their opinions.
Submit multiple times if you have to. This was my third time submitting attempt in two weeks. The first two didn't make it to the front page, but this one did.
Don't pay attention to the haters. There will always be some negative commenters. Ignore them, try not to take it personally, and focus on the positive.
I'm excited for what comes next!

With multiple web applications relying on external APIs for data, I still needed a way to receive emails when something happens in my JavaScript. While the current available services do not really help my situation, I thought to write an SaaS API that can serve any frontend developer.