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I'm in the middle of bootstrapping a SaaS company and spent the last few days evaluating e-mail providers. I think my requirements are really simple, yet I seem to fall outside what most offer. Here it goes:

* A user-friendly WYSIWYG template editor (web fonts = nice to have but not crucial). * An API that lets me set the to-address and the e-mail content in markdown.

How can this pose an edge case?!

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As far as the fonts - font support across email clients is.... not great. We offer it but warn our users that their chosen font might not be displayed in most cases.

Ideally, you'd be able to paste any markdown into our editor and have it render properly, but still something we need to work on.

A markdown to HTML (email) converter would be neat though.

How would markdown play in this case?

I would expect API to parse JSON with variables to replace in the templates.

Think of the markdown as the variable I'm sending (I'm doing the replacements myself before sending). I'd simply like to dress it in a template and send it to x.

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