🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)

Building a developer brand and simple API for email, with Zeno Rocha from Resend

Zeno Rocha from Resend shares the story of his Y Combinator backed company, and what it's like to build great open source tools, focused & minimal APIs, and a great engineering team.

Mike Bifulco

Mar 15, 2024 — 1 min read

Show Notes

Zeno's flash->javascript demo with HTML5, Wormz
- https://zenorocha.github.io/wormz/
Zeno Rocha
- @ZenoRocha on Twitter
- @zenorocha on Threads
Dracula theme
React email
Resend.com
Resend Forward
- Broadcasts - marketing emails
- Batch email sending - send 100 emails with one API call

Transcript

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