send.rest "API to send notifications"

send.rest

17 pointsnautical3 comments

Hello HN, I am usually working on some side projects and I saw that I always ended up making a common "component" which will send emails/sms etc to people on specific date & time using a template which has data from some API (eg send report to all customers every Monday morning). Usual gateways were not helping much in customisations (eg I cant fill the template from my API endpoint).

Hence I came up with https://send.rest, where templates support "a JS templating language" which can be filled up with data from any API. Scheduling comes along with the package along with an option to pick any sender (SMS or email).

Let me know your feedback!

A small suggestion, if I may - browsing your landing page, I found it would occasionally jump each time your ‘typing text’ changed towards the top of the page. You might want to set a static height on that div, or maybe just have a permanent zero-width space at the start of the div to give it a height when there aren’t any visible characters.

Or I suppose you could just tweak the JS so that it only runs when it is visible, otherwise it’s paused maybe?

Thank you for the suggestion! You are right, weirdly I didn't notice. Fixed.

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