TechLetterApp 💌 - Build Better Newsletters: Write markdown get newsletter with rich embeds 🧙‍

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. ✌️

Swizec

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6yr ago

wojtek

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

Anne-Laure Le Cunff

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!