Coming to Next.js from Laravel, being able to hand things off to a long running worker is one of the things I missed the most. We're currently handling this with a non-ideal solution and will definitely check Trigger.dev out when you launch that feature.
As far as the fonts - font support across email clients is.... not great. We offer it but warn our users that their chosen font might not be displayed in most cases.
Ideally, you'd be able to paste any markdown into our editor and have it render properly, but still something we need to work on.
A markdown to HTML (email) converter would be neat though.
We're trying a different model - pay for your core audience and any emails (product updates, user touch points, and transactional) are all included. If you have a use case that sends outside of your core audience (maybe sharing content with non-users of your product, we bill on a more traditional email volume pricing.
Lexical has been great. I think the biggest drawback is that its an earlier project (compared to alternatives) so there are not always best practices for what we want to do. That said, the community is pretty active (in discord) and generally responsive to bug reports.
ah so bring your own MTA - that's an interesting idea and would definitely make it easier to switch over. How would you expect pricing to work at that point?
Right now we're using AWS SES for our MTA. We've had a pretty great experience with them to date. We don't currently offer dedicated IPs but we likely will in the future. When we do, we want to make sure that customers have the required send volume to actually see a benefit from using one. I think a lot of services offer dedicated IPs too early as a panacea for increasing delivery rates. What we've noticed is that these initial IPs are warmed up so perform well, but over time, if the send volume is too low, it's reputation can atrophy.
We monitor our delivery platform wide and proactively contact customers if there are issues with their account.
As far as spam, yes, we allow you to contact within your own audience as much as you like but we do monitor this for abuse.
Its definitely come up! I think it would be cool to have a community working on the translations to MJML from Lexical. There are so many corner cases and email clients out there, it's definitely a challenge to get things working everywhere. What type of compliancy problems have you run into?
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I guess the simplification I drew may not apply to everyone (edited). The off the cuff example given in the interview seemed to reinforce the idea that middleschool girls should be worried about guys and that didn't seem very empowering to me.
I'm all for making it more appealing for everyone to learn to code, but I was torn over this product by a comment made by Sara Chipps on the Giant Robots podcast (http://giantrobots.fm/246).
One of the use cases she mentions is "...4 buzzes means the guy you like is nearby...".
"Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space."
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
I develop our Roku channel - https://channelstore.roku.com/details/61657/curiositystream. You currently need to sign up on our website and link your device. The next release will incorporate Roku billing so that you can sign up directly on the device.