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API to send email directly from your Gmail/Microsoft account.
Hi everyone.
I've created a pretty simple API service which allows you to send emails programatically from your existing Google or Microsoft based email accounts and would love some feedback.
It's developed for solo developers who want to use their own email or a shared inbox to send automated emails from but with a much simpler interface. It can be configured in a few simple clicks and requires no additional domain or dns configuration, working via OAuth permissions and the email providers existing infrastructure and email reputation.
Next up i'm looking to first add webhooks for incoming emails, and then a templating engine. Would love some feedback though on your thoughts and what would convince you to use something like this.
It's currently setup to work without the need to sign up for a plan, and you can use the docs to test it out in browser.
I've created a pretty simple API service which allows you to send emails programatically from your existing Google or Microsoft based email accounts and would love some feedback.
It's developed for solo developers who want to use their own email or a shared inbox to send automated emails from but with a much simpler interface. It can be configured in a few simple clicks and requires no additional domain or dns configuration, working via OAuth permissions and the email providers existing infrastructure and email reputation.
Next up i'm looking to first add webhooks for incoming emails, and then a templating engine. Would love some feedback though on your thoughts and what would convince you to use something like this.
It's currently setup to work without the need to sign up for a plan, and you can use the docs to test it out in browser.
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I have used Nylas for 1 or 2 years in Retently, but it was too expensive - $300/month for 100 initial connected inboxes so we canceled Nylas and developed our solution.
I am still unhappy that Gmail tokens disconnect frequently without a clear reason and that Microsoft Outlook permissions are so hard to navigate that only 30% of our Outlook customers can use our implementation.
Oh yes, this is a bit of a different use case to Nylan. I was thinking of it more for just sending outbound emails, a sort of sendgrid where you dont need to spend an hour configuring it just to end up with a blacklisted IP when you chose the lower tiers.
For tokens its been fine so far, but i found Entra ID to actually be easier to work with then the gmail oauth implementation. Are you using oauth or are the customers adding the client in their own tenant?
Yep we created our own oAuth integration
Oh, well i'll let you know if i come across issues and figure out the cause. But thankfully no issues yet :)