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I’m working on a modern transactional email API platform. Developers can bring their own AWS SES keys and freely use their own domains for sending emails.

I’m building it on Cloudflare Workers with advanced tracking, modern templates, and advanced webhook integration. Developers can also configure and schedule advanced workflows for their specific needs

The users can review their usage and performance using an intuitive dashboard.

Email is a crowded space and this is my first attempt at doing something indie at this scale. Wish me luck!


Sounds interesting, are you also thinking about inbound email?

Inbound emails using AWS SES make sense, but not planning that as the part of the MVP.

Is that a commonly requested use case for AWS SES users?


Good luck!

Kindles are amazing devices for hacking and turning into cute little dashboards. The kindle modding community is wonderful and full of people experimenting with it. If you have an old kindle, give it a new lease!

Shameless plug: I wrote about my experience here

https://samkhawase.com/blog/hacking-kindle/

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43822251


I love just how non-intrusive an e-ink dashboard is sitting in a room. Definitely can recommend it as a base device that gets you display, wonky Linux, a battery and networking in neat little package.

Also recently showed my dashboard here: https://franz.hamburg/writing/kindling-e-ink-dashboard.html


You don't need to ball out on eink for that.

An old oled android phone is even easier to mod for that.

Eink is like the Rust of displays for hobby projects. Everyone defaults to it even when it's not necessary.


That's an unfair criticism. Kindles and their eInk setup provide the perfect low-fi hacking experience that developers love. It's minimal, slow and barebones linux base makes it easier to hack für such fun projects.

> low-fi hacking experience that developers love

Well I'm a hacker too and I don't really prefer low-fi hacking experiences, or at least not that flavor. I prefer getting stuff done since my free time after work is limited.

Oh and I used to work with eink displays for a living, but they always end up gathering dust for my hobby projects because it's only good for very few niche use cases that most of the time are better served by the more flexible and practical available solutions, unless of course, your uses case is showing it off on the internet for clout because this time what makes it special is it uses eink even though it adds no benefit.

Like I said, the Rust of displays.


Fair enough. We all have enough eInk devices in our cabinets. To each their own .

What do you mean by “Rust for displays”? Bikeshedding?


What are you talking about, e-ink is much nicer for things like this. An OLED produces actual light, and uses way more power. I wouldn't want an oled display on 24/7 in my living room.

Everyone defaults to it because it's really nice actually.


>An OLED produces actual light

Actual light? As opposed to producing fake light?


I think they mean that even an OLED display will actively emit light. When, in contrast, the e-ink displays shown in the linked posts are unlit. That, for me, is the key advantage making the device blend in.

Turn down the brightness of the OLED and it also just "blends in".

It also features many examples from pre-Colombian South American cultures


I’m running CachyOS for a year now as my daily driver (non-work) on my ancient desktop from 2019 and ancient Nvidia card. It is very fast and smooth. I mainly use it to development using LLM sidekicks and it doesn’t break sweat. I use XFCE and just love how fast the experience is.


I use CachyOS as my daily driver and I gave up on i3 after few tries. It just doesn’t work.

I’m happy with XFCE now and it is very performant.


No issues with sway here.


For a minute I thought this is an moon-shot to stop climate change by building real icebergs.


That's hilarious.


I hope a pragmatic framework like SvelteKit, Astro or TanStack replace NextJS complexity vendors soon.


React router is ... an option. but tanstack is a the most promising one to change the status quo.

With the rolldown update coming with vite 8, It is just a matter of time before next. js is forced to fix its issues


Indeed. Would you consider https://mastrojs.github.io a "pragmatic framework"?


> dang can we please get a bit better Markdown support?

Great use case for an LLM to make these changes as HN is open source. It’ll also tell us if LLMs can go beyond JS slop.


Because it's the only other browser engine that's currently available in the market.


Indeed.

It is important to try to avoid letting perfection be the enemy of good.

Firefox is at least something that is distinct from WebKit or Chromium (which is itself based on a fork of WebKit). That's good.

It's not perfect, in part because deals with Google pay for most of it, but it is still good despite its imperfect status.


Which sucks because it's not exactly fantastic as a competitor. There's still very, very noticeable performance differences and render speed/pattern differences that after you've been using a chromium based browser for a long time give firefox a feeling of being slow (it's not, it is absolutely just a perception thing, but it's enough to put you off using it)


It is a service available to Cloudflare customers and is opt-in. I fail to see how they’re being gatekeepers when site owners have option not to use it.


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