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I'm curious regarding the motivation behind this. You are receiving and storing emails, looking at them, and optionally forwarding them for processing. Why not use an email client, and only forward your chosen stories into a linear ingest and publish lambda job? I ask because I'm considering building something similar and I'm thinking about the rationale.

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If I was the only person in the organization, that might work fine. However, there are two main drivers of this methodology:

1. I need to allow other people to simultaneously evaluate stories, and a database works well to coordinate multiple people accessing the story queue.

2. Having metadata and stories in dynamo/S3 allows for much more flexible querying of ALL stories, to look for patterns, model the data, etc.

Some friends of mine run a science fiction site. A reasonably serious one - they've been nominated for a Hugo several times. They have WordPress and some email accounts. They do grumble about the website, but it's nowhere near their biggest problem. You are definitely overthinking this.

I'd love to talk shop with your friends, if they're interested please direct them to the site or have them email me at joe@compellingsciencefiction.com!

just because others do with less does not mean a solution is overthought.

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