Have you considered the recruitment use case? Many staffing agencies advertise jobs on their website but don’t have the job alert functionality a job board would offer. If you turn this into a “alert me”, the next time they post a job matching the criteria you’ll email candidates for them. Same technology, just a different niche - one that I think will be more profitable.
Hi HN! I made Blogsend.io.<p>It's a way for blog owners to handle emailing their readers automatically whenever they make a post. I built this because I actually needed it first, but decided to try it out as a product as well.<p>Technically it's not terribly complicated – it has a widget which collects emails of your subscribers and it listens to your RSS feed and emails those people when you post. The goal is to make it as hands-off and hassle-free as possible to email out your content to your readers.<p>Built it in Node.js and Postgres, with Bulma providing the CSS defaults. I vowed to move fast in this project and to that end I decided to stay away from frontend frameworks and build the old fashioned way, with <form> tags! It was actually super fun. I've had my hands on React, Vue, Angular and Ember before, and in all of them I actually never really felt as if it felt as natural as this approach.<p>Anyways, I'd love to hear any feedback you might have :)
Not to detract from the project, but is there much demand for this? Anything that's emailed to me is generally lost in my mailbox or purposely ignored... when I want to read a blog, I'll go to the blog.... I don't want more emails.
Here is our version of this concept, except it also works with your social media accounts: <a href="https://www.gibbonwire.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.gibbonwire.com</a><p>plus we take privacy very seriously, which is an added bonus.<p>edit: here is a link to our FAQ: <a href="https://www.gibbonwire.com/about/faq/" rel="nofollow">https://www.gibbonwire.com/about/faq/</a><p>and our privacy policy:
<a href="https://www.gibbonwire.com/about/privacy/" rel="nofollow">https://www.gibbonwire.com/about/privacy/</a>
Doesn't WordPress already do this? Not sure this is very helpful for WordPress users. Although, I do see the use for static blogs and those that do not already send emails when posts are published.
Dig it! But I'm clicking on Preview and getting a I need to subscribe?<p><a href="https://cl.ly/709c92e9ca7b/Image%202018-11-20%20at%2011.12.45%20AM.png" rel="nofollow">https://cl.ly/709c92e9ca7b/Image%202018-11-20%20at%2011.12.4...</a><p>Get this:<p><a href="https://cl.ly/eac5828099c5/Image%202018-11-20%20at%2011.13.22%20AM.png" rel="nofollow">https://cl.ly/eac5828099c5/Image%202018-11-20%20at%2011.13.2...</a>
My blog is obviously published as an RSS feed but I also have a JSON feed (<a href="https://jsonfeed.org" rel="nofollow">https://jsonfeed.org</a>). Don't laugh, there are dozens of us. Dozens!<p>Considering you've already done the hard work of parsing RSS, do you plan to support JSON feeds at some point?
Nice project! I currently do the same with Mailchimp, I have a mailing list and they support creating newsletters from RSS. Does your project have advantages over that?