The Honest Email Marketing Calculator
When I was building a normal landing page for SimploMail.com. You know the type โ feature grid, pricing table, big green button I thoughtโฆ no. People don't believe landing pages. I don't believe landing pages. So I decided to build a calculator and I called it "The Honest Email Marketing Calculator" because that's what it is. You tell it your list size and how often you send. It shows you what...
I still move way faster than I used to but I definitely slowed down
It really feels good to build applications using AI tools. Itโs fast and it looks good! I built one myself(simplomail.com) and I love it โค๏ธ. But to keep these AI tools from breaking things, I had to write ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ป๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐. And now that my application is in production, ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐น๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐น ๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐บ๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ. Because so many times, to make one feature work,...
Building software with AI using ๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฐโ๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ฝ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ is super exciting
What a productive couple of days ๐ฅณ. In just 2.5 days I was able to implement an Email Sequence Automation feature for my email marketing platform project(simplomail.com). ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ was mostly researching, thinking, planning, and writing the specification. ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐๐ผ: first half of the day was feeding this specification to an AI agent and answering its questions. Second half was reviewing the...
Are AIโgenerated UI designs good enough for production apps?
I continue building UI pages for my email marketing platform using AI, and I wondered if AIโgenerated UI designs are good enough for production apps? They seem to work great on mobile devices and desktop screens. They load fast. They behave normally. Iโm personally perfectly fine and happy to use them in production, but what is your opinion? Am I missing something? Should I be worried about...
How I create UI quickly using Stitch + Lovable
There is a very quick way to create UI for a mobile application or a website. I used this approach to create the UI for one of my side projects. To create the design, I used Google Stitch (https://stitch.withgoogle.com/). Stitch allows you to design using prompts, then edit specific parts of the image by highlighting them and describing what to change. You can download the designs in HTML or...
Looking for feedback on pricing model for my email marketing tool
Iโm building an emailโsending platform and considering a payโasโyouโgo model instead of subscriptions. My reasoning is that many people donโt send emails every month, so charging only for usage feels more fair. However, several founders have warned me that this model may be a mistake from a business perspective. If youโve built or used similar tools, Iโd appreciate your thoughts on: Whether...
Two hard days of work - one Big win. I just built embeddable Signup forms
A quick update on my email marketing platform project. I spent the last couple days working(almost non stop) on a new feature that I felt I must have before opening my email marketing platform to the public. I've implemented embeddable Signup forms. Now you can embed a little signup form right into your own website. Visitors type their email, hit send and email gets added to your subscribers...
AI can remove something important without telling you ๐
Itโs the third week of working on my little side project, SimploMail.com, and to speed things up Iโve been doing a lot of โvibe coding.โ Itโs been fun, but a few things became obvious pretty quickly. I stopped using the โautoโ model setting in the IDE. When it silently switches models, the quality drops fast. I can feel when the agent all of a sudden looses its intelligence ๐ . So now I just...
Hello fellow creators ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ
My name is Sergey and I am a software developer. I am here because I started building a service I wanted to build for a several years now - A pay-as-you-go email marketing platform. I could not find a service that does not charge if I am not sending any email campaigns. So I decided to create one. Building in public is very new to me and I have zero experience sharing about it. But I will try...