Sendune
Web and SaaS
email designer
SHOW HN2024
How HN took it
12 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 10 critical, out of 33 comments about the project. Thread score +0.11.
Idea: 7 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 4 againstPricing: 2 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, simple, and needed open-source email editor
From 4 comments
Absolutely amazing. Really makes so much sense to have a solid mail editor as OSS!
philmo1 on HNThis is a very useful thing, I will definitely test it
Turboblack on HNI really like this idea!
steviedotboston on HNLove it see it, I think most "designers" like this tools are behind paywalls and subscription email platforms. This looks great thank you for sharing.
jessyco on HN
Objections
Pure HTML email is outdated; plain text or markdown would be better
From 2 comments
I have the personal impression that it would be a net positive if all emails were written as text. Ok, in some cases I see why html would make some sense. In those cases, my…
rmbyrro on HNThe entire premise is absurd. I will grant that many people want rich text, formatted emails with images and logos. I don't want that but understand the wants and needs are…
SoftTalker on HN
Drag and drop does not work in Firefox on macOS
From 1 comment
The drag and drop part is not working for me, Firefox, macOS. I can click on the elements on the left and they will pop up, but I am not able to drag them onto the email.
nik736 on HN
No plain text fallback
From 1 comment
View -> Message Body As -> Plain Text Not your fault, but please always provide fall back text.
tejtm on HN
Requests
Plain text fallback
From 1 comment
got it. plain text fall back is on our todo list.
samdung on HN
Load saved templates
From 2 comments
Looks awesome. Is there a way to load saved templates?
gamegod on HNI appreciate the response, but that's not what I was asking. I'll rephrase as a workflow question: After I make a design in your editor, I'll want to reuse that for future…
gamegod on HN
Responsive styles for small screens
From 1 comment
Really great thanks! Is it possible to add responsive styles? Such as converting columns into rows on smaller device screens?
mska on HN
Questions
How to integrate into another web app and store templates in a database
From 1 comment
Is there some documentation on how to integrate it into a different web app? I would really like to open a template that is stored in the database and handle sending the mail,…
ibotty on HN
How it compares to Resend
From 1 comment
How does this compare to something like resend?
rd on HN
Alternatives named
MJML
From 2 comments
This work looks very promising. "HTML for email" is indeed hard to design and hard to implement. Especially editing on mobile, tablet devices, or asian (two+ bytes japanese,…
adeptima on HNYou can use MJML - https://mjml.io/ - which abstracts away a lot of the ugliness and Outlook hacks.
gav on HN
Cerberus email patterns
From 1 comment
OP should have used the patterns from Cerberus: https://github.com/emailmonday/Cerberus
sexy_seedbox on HN
Resend
From 1 comment
Do your research before responding to me next time. They're both email design tools - Resend is based around building your emails in React.
rd on HN
Foundation for Emails
From 1 comment
This looks great, nice job! Does anyone here use Foundation for Emails? - I found it to be pretty good (circa 2020) but the code it produced still needed some tweaks to display…
fallinditch on HN