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Based on the title I thought it was something I could selfhost on my own metal, but the first sentence says

> Plunk is an open-source email platform built on top of AWS SES.

I’m out. That’s everything I needed to know about this project to never look at it again.

You host it yourself. It's an email marketing platform (not an email server), but you use AWS SES as an email infrastructure because it is cheap and reliable. You cannot build or host your own infrastructure since emails are hard these days, you use AWS SES or alternative to send emails like most of these services and apps do. It's so easy to get blocked or blacklisted by other email providers.

The wording is awkward and suboptimal. If you don't know what AWS SES is, you'd easily get the wrong impression. In fact, I'd even say it's factually incorrect. It's not built on top of AWS SES. It's built to utilize AWS SES for its functionality. Slightly different, pedantic really.

On point though

“Platform” normally implies that it includes the infrastructure that implements the intended functionality, or what is named in the product/project name (“email platform”). In that sense the name is misleading.

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