Kazi Tihamiun Islam

Full Stack Developer

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Full-stack engineer and CTO who owns product and engineering from concept through live systems — architecture, delivery, DevOps, and team leadership. Ships SaaS and platform products, integrates AI into real workflows (chat, RAG, agents, automation), and keeps releases reliable in production.

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Countdown for EmailAnimated countdown GIFs for email campaigns
Aug 2026

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Joined Product HuntApril 25th, 2019

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1d ago

GIF vs live-image countdown timers: what still works in Gmail after Apple Mail caching?

Most live email countdown timers are just an image URL. Every open hits a server, the server draws the current time, and you hope the inbox shows a fresh picture.

That breaks in a boring way now. Apple Mail Privacy Protection prefetches and caches the image. Gmail and Outlook still do not run JavaScript. So the live clock is often wrong, frozen, or a gray box, and the marketer thinks they did something wrong.

We ran into this while building Countdown for Email (not live on Product Hunt yet). The job is not draw a clock. The job is put a branded deadline in Mailchimp, Klaviyo, or HubSpot that still looks like a timer when the inbox caches the image. That is why we are shipping animated GIFs with a visual designer and a paste-in embed, not a new ESP.

We are still locking defaults before launch, so this is a real ask, not a teaser:

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22h ago

Countdown for Email - Animated countdown GIFs for email campaigns

Countdown for Email turns your deadline into a polished animated countdown GIF you can embed in any email campaign (Mailchimp, Klaviyo, HubSpot, etc.).