Show HN: I built a tool to alert you when your automated emails fail to send
[wasitsent.com](http://wasitsent.com/) monitors your automated, transactional, and scheduled emails and notifies you when they break.
I built [wasitsent.com](http://wasitsent.com/) because recently, two of my customers complained that their emails stopped sending and it caused a major headache for their business. I've faced this problem myself multiple time in my career.
It solves a problem that I and others have faced. These are true stories:
- If you were ever yelled at because the weekly sales report did not generate on Friday, this tool will save your butt.
- If you were ever in that awkward meeting where you had to explain why user notifications were not sending from the web application you are building, [wasitsent.com](http://wasitsent.com/) has got you covered.
- If Chris went on vacation and forgot to set up the next three emails in the DRIP campaign, you will find out quickly. (Names changed to protect those that went on vacation)
- If one day your dev team told you that over the past few months there were 180,000 unsent e-commerce transaction-related emails, you can make sure that does not happen again.
Uptime monitoring and APM (application performance monitoring) is important. Things will break. If you can notice and react quickly, your customers won’t suffer. There are many uptime monitoring tools, but nothing exists for doing end-to-end checks on emails.
Emails can break for many reasons — bad code, bad config, expired credit card in your SMTP provider, someone changed your SPF record, misconfigured SMTP server, the dev API key snuck into production, misconfigured cron, and many others. You can monitor any of them. What was missing up ‘till now was an end-to-end email sending check.
Well, now you have [wasitsent.com](http://wasitsent.com/) to make sure your emails are going out.
It’s still at an MVP stage and I am building feverishly. It’s already useful though, so give it a whirl.
All feedback welcome here, or via email at krystian.cybulski@wasitsent.com. In particular, I am curious if the messaging on the homepage explains this service well.