Company
Date Published
Author
David Banys
Word count
881
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The world of email marketing is dominated by prehistoric tools that are difficult to use and offer little developer experience or joy. Resend aims to change this by building a modern email sending platform specifically tailored to developers, with a focus on extensible email primitives and great documentation. The company's founder, Zeno Rocha, believes that email is the most underrated technology in the world and that it's time for a developer-first approach. With its recent Launch Week, Resend has shipped a range of features, including Audiences and Broadcasts, which enable users to send both transactional and marketing emails from a single source of truth. The company also provides quickstart guides for a large number of languages and relies on Railway to help it scale efficiently. Zeno advises others to "buy a lot of coffee" before running a Launch Week, as it will be an intense week. Resend is not just building an email platform, but a communications platform that will allow developers to have more interesting ways to talk with their users in the future.