TechLetterApp 💌 - Build Better Newsletters

Write markdown get newsletter with rich embeds 🧙‍

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Write markdown get newsletter with rich embeds 🧙‍

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Write markdown, get a newsletter with rich embeds. 🐦 Tweets, 📹 YouTube, 🎨 images, and 🤖 code turn into thumbnails. Saves 15+ minutes per email 🤘 All images uploaded to S3, resized to 480px for best email viewability and speed. Links back to original source. Code blocks automatically go to carbon.now.sh for those super pretty screenshots.

Launch tags:Web App•Productivity•Marketing

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Hi ProductHunt 👋 I built TechLetterApp because I love writing my newsletters but I hate making screenshots, ensuring images are small enough, pasting code into carbon.now.sh, ... it's a huge time sink and super hard to get just right. Been wanting a service that does it for me and nobody was building one. So I did 😛 The #24hrstartup challenge was just the kick in the butt I needed. This is gonna save me tons of time and I plan to keep adding more embeds. They're super easy to add. For the curious, TechLetterApp is built with 👇 - reactbulma for layout and basic styling - showdown for markdown parsing - Zeit for hosting - a single AWS Lambda function for screenshots - an AWS API Gateway to give the Lambda a REST API - it uses Chrome Headless to render & screenshot pages - Chrome Puppeteer to drive the virtual browser - GraphicsMagick to resize and optimize images - uploads all images to S3 - click to copyToClipboard method from a hackernoon article - a hack to push code into carbon.now.sh from a random gist - Serverless framework to drive AWS deploys and packages - uses CheckoutPage to collect optional $2/export payments because I didn't want to faff around with Stripe myself - I used https://megatags.co/ to generate social sharing tags - and I tried and abandoned a bunch of other libraries on the way Truly this project is a testament to how far The Web Platform has come that a single person with a little help from the audience can build something like this in just 17 hours. ✌️

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7yr ago

BYE

This is very useful even for personal emails! Can't wait for you to single-handedly take on MailChimp and their terrible interface.

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7yr ago

Ness Labs

@swizec This is amazing. I hate editing my emails in MailChimp where there's just too much fluff and taking screenshots of videos etc. This is super clean and simple to use. It will save me tons of time. Thank you!

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7yr ago

Dinghy

@swizec Oh man this is awesome. Full-on useful tool built in 24 hours!

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7yr ago

Away From Keyboard (AFK)

This is a really cool product which will save lots of time for people sending regular newsletters Nice one Swizec 🙌 Love the tech behind it too

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7yr ago

Flightcontrol

Dude, this is brilliant! Surprisingly simple and useful!! Nice job!

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7yr ago

Love it

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love it

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No cons

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7yr ago

Placid

that's such a good idea! - need an api for that!

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7yr ago

Nugget One

So good, @swizec So good.

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7yr ago

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