Ask HN: Is Resend a better option to send Emails in bulk?

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by jerawaj740 • 10 months ago

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i'm building a lead gen tool, user can upload a csv of many emails and i should send many emails in every batch, in this case, is Resend good for deliverability, i don't want to end up in spam or get blocked, is the pricing good compared to other providers ? any advices from you are welcome

scottydelta• 10 months ago

I use both Resend and Sendgrid and I have used almost all other providers in the past.

The part where Resend stands out is the time to go live and ease of use. All other prodivers require you to verify your startup and they vet you and decide if they want to offer you their service or not. This creates a barrier for people with side projects and really new startups. Meanwhile with Resend you can start sending mails from day 0 once you verify your domain. They also use AWS underneath and don't have their own infra like Sendgrid or Twilio.

Resend also let's you easily use smtp with same api key as password. It's a small feature but it has come handy many times trying to configure email notifications on metabase and coolify.

I remember once I needed transactional email service for an experimental project and both AWS and sendgrid didn't want to provide me service. They actively try to vet projects so that spammers don't use their infra and bring down their deliverability and reputation.

Now for your use case since sending a lot and batch emails is going to be a core task, amazon AWS SES is the best choice for your. Most likely you will face issues where your users are uploading email ids without users' consent and when you email then they report it as spam. AWS will block your SES access in this most likely scenario. Spammers taking advantage of your system to delivery spam emails. You can study how other platforms handle this and add protections to discourage this behavior.

jerawaj740• 10 months ago

thank you for your reply, as i said it is a gen tool for creating compaigns, i will try to avoid getting blocked by following some secure steps like: email/domain warmup, rotate between different emails/domains ,set an unsbscribe link in every email footer...

Spammers taking advantage of your system to delivery spam emails

i'm trying to understand more how gmail/outlook and other work so i keep the deliverability.

i end up choosing Resend for some resons but i may change it depends on the business requirements: better DX, less corporated feeling, nice+clean documentation, pricing not too bad (they should make a living :) )

Ask HN: Is Resend a better option to send Emails in bulk?

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