I’m also a happy Postmark customer and also bristled a bit when I read the allegation that they don’t have a good developer experience. Their developer experience is pretty good, actually.
BUT their JS library has been a shitshow for years now. Like, it works. But the readme links to outdated documentation and 404s. And in the library documentation you can get into an infinite loop of “click here for more info” taking you to back to the page you’re on.
It’s still usable. I can just find the page I need with a bit of googling, and actually I stopped using the JS library and just interact with their API directly with HTTP these days. But it’s definitely a sign that they’re not paying attention to that side of the business and developer experience anymore.
Which is, like, fine. Postmark is a great product. It does what it needs to and it does it well. But it’s fair to say they’re not hungry anymore and haven’t been for a while. And although I don’t totally understand Resend’s value prop, the market’s definitely big enough to support someone new and hungry so good luck to them.
PS: Zeno, I saw in a sibling comment that you guys had a upstream outage during your Launch HN. Damn, such bad timing haha!! At least it’s back up now :)
BUT their JS library has been a shitshow for years now. Like, it works. But the readme links to outdated documentation and 404s. And in the library documentation you can get into an infinite loop of “click here for more info” taking you to back to the page you’re on.
It’s still usable. I can just find the page I need with a bit of googling, and actually I stopped using the JS library and just interact with their API directly with HTTP these days. But it’s definitely a sign that they’re not paying attention to that side of the business and developer experience anymore.
Which is, like, fine. Postmark is a great product. It does what it needs to and it does it well. But it’s fair to say they’re not hungry anymore and haven’t been for a while. And although I don’t totally understand Resend’s value prop, the market’s definitely big enough to support someone new and hungry so good luck to them.
PS: Zeno, I saw in a sibling comment that you guys had a upstream outage during your Launch HN. Damn, such bad timing haha!! At least it’s back up now :)