Launch HN: Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app 2 hours ago
Exactly. You realize that after going through the whole process.
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Serial Entrepreneur. Co-Founder and CEO, Unlayer (YC W22). Learn more about me at http://adeelraza.co
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We will be around. Have been for 5 years :)
We’re seeing really good momentum with our open source projects. React email editor and elements.
Fair critique on the video :') We’re working on a studio-recorded version, but didn’t want to delay the launch, so we hacked this together as the script/placeholder for now. But this is our launch video, completely, 100% recorded in blood and flesh of a human: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HsDtNkdMpM
Fair :) We do have open-source pieces (Unlayer Elements, React Email Editor, AI Skills), but the hosted builder itself is commercial.
Fair critique on the video :') We’re working on a studio-recorded version, but didn’t want to delay the launch, so we hacked this together as the script/placeholder for now. The demo is completely, 100% recorded in blood and flesh of a human: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HsDtNkdMpM
totally agree!
Totally fair. You can build the first 10-minute demo with an LLM now.
The hard part is usually what comes after: editable state, templates, email-safe HTML, PDF/export pipelines, assets, permissions, custom blocks, previews, and all the rendering edge cases that show up once real users depend on it.
AI also makes structure more important, not less. That’s why we launched Unlayer Elements: instead of having an LLM generate a static blob of HTML, it can target structured components that map back into an editable email, web page or document.
So I'd use AI to prototype it. I'd use Unlayer when that content layer becomes production infrastructure you don't want to maintain yourself.
Show HN: React Drag-N-Drop Email Editor 9 years ago
Hey, developer of this React component here. I run several SaaS startups and we always wanted a good email editor that we can quickly embed in our applications. Couldn't find one that's free and solid so we decided to build one.
It takes less than 5 minutes to get started with this React component. Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
Thanks!
I founded an email marketing / lead generation startup, MailMunch. We saw 1 billion unique pageviews in the last year :)
I wrote a post on this topic back in 2013. Can a software developer be a successful entrepreneur: http://adeelraza.co/blog/can-a-software-developer-be-a-succe...
4 years later, happy to report that I have a successful startup.