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Simon Chiu
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An account you should follow for b2b software stuff. I code in Ruby, JS, and Go. Unemployable.

✉️ http://sendbroadcast.com Email automation tool
⌨️ http://proggy.io CLI tool
💳 http://transactful.com Refund Request (free)
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My December 2024 report for sendbroadcast.net

Yep, I'm doing this 7 days into 2025 :-)

💰 Made 3 sales (m/m 0%)
💻 70 commits into the project (prev 96)
🌟 Domain rating 10 (prev 11)
🚀 Added 10 features incl:
• ESP integrations
• Improved preview rendering
• Resumption of interrupted broadcasts
Self-hosted email marketing software | Broadcast
Broadcast is an end-to-end email marketing software that helps you create, send, and analyze email campaigns. It is a modern, cloud-based platform that is easy to use and integrate with other tools.
sendbroadcast.net
Reposted by Simon Chiu
Released v0.17.0 for sendbroadcast.net

Get 25% off licensing with code NEWYEAR25

Things added/fixed this week:

• Added ability to import CSV files into subscribers
• Fixed bug where AWS SES webhooks were not processing correctly
• Updated server dependency
• Updated internal dependencies
Self-hosted email marketing software | Broadcast
Broadcast is an end-to-end email marketing software that helps you create, send, and analyze email campaigns. It is a modern, cloud-based platform that is easy to use and integrate with other tools.
sendbroadcast.net
February 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Added some charts to sendbroadcast.net

Will be adding more visuals like this in other parts of the app
January 19, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Tell me you were unproductive yesterday without telling me.

I'll go first.

I didn't even know GitHub was down.
January 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
It's likely 100% true that the thing you're building already exists
January 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Well, it's time for me to start a new project.

Last night, while working on my _other_ project, I realized I needed a tool for it to test some things out.

Fingers crossed I can get it done in 3-4 days.
January 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Just sent my 13th weekly product update to my customers for sendbroadcast.net.

It's become a habit now that every Sunday night, I look at my changelog and summarize what I've updated/improved/fixed and fire off an update to my customers.
January 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Reposted by Simon Chiu
Released v0.14.1 for sendbroadcast.net

• Sequences can now use conditions to direct the flow of DRIP/autoresponders
Self-hosted email marketing software | Broadcast
Broadcast is an end-to-end email marketing software that helps you create, send, and analyze email campaigns. It is a modern, cloud-based platform that is easy to use and integrate with other tools.
sendbroadcast.net
January 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Been reading the book, The Psychology of Money.

An idea in there is that it's oftentimes hard to know how much of a result is attributable to luck or skill.

As a result, this makes it hard to extrapolate the lessons from someone else's outcome to apply to your own situation.
January 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Working on sendbroadcast.net, I am constantly reminded how glad I am to have spent the time writing unit tests.

At the start of any side project, it's so easy to just code. But as complexity increases, tests are what gives me the confidence to ship.
Self-hosted email marketing software | Broadcast
Broadcast is an end-to-end email marketing software that helps you create, send, and analyze email campaigns. It is a modern, cloud-based platform that is easy to use and integrate with other tools.
sendbroadcast.net
January 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Digital Ocean calls servers "droplets"
Linode calls servers "nodes"
Hetzner calls servers... "servers"

Just curious how people feel about companies using their own language/vocab?
January 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My December 2024 report for sendbroadcast.net

Yep, I'm doing this 7 days into 2025 :-)

💰 Made 3 sales (m/m 0%)
💻 70 commits into the project (prev 96)
🌟 Domain rating 10 (prev 11)
🚀 Added 10 features incl:
• ESP integrations
• Improved preview rendering
• Resumption of interrupted broadcasts
Self-hosted email marketing software | Broadcast
Broadcast is an end-to-end email marketing software that helps you create, send, and analyze email campaigns. It is a modern, cloud-based platform that is easy to use and integrate with other tools.
sendbroadcast.net
January 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Just updated the footer to © 2025.
January 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
First update for sendbroadcast.net in 2025... Multiple internal dependencies updated!
Self-hosted email marketing software | Broadcast
Broadcast is an end-to-end email marketing software that helps you create, send, and analyze email campaigns. It is a modern, cloud-based platform that is easy to use and integrate with other tools.
sendbroadcast.net
January 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Only 363 days left this year to make stuff happen
January 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I spent the day restringing 4 tennis racquets 🎾
January 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Happy New Year everyone!
January 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Got some work done tonight for sendbroadcast.net!

Now possible to view recipient activity on email broadcast campaigns at the subscriber level...
December 29, 2024 at 4:03 AM
One more release before I take a break for a few days... :-)
December 25, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Just sent the 11th product update for
@sendbroadcast.com
to customers... using sendbroadcast.net of course.

One more product update to give for next week, so looking forward to knocking some of those todo's on my list.

Let's go Monday!
Self-hosted email marketing software | Broadcast
Broadcast is an end-to-end email marketing software that helps you create, send, and analyze email campaigns. It is a modern, cloud-based platform that is easy to use and integrate with other tools.
sendbroadcast.net
December 23, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Reposted by Simon Chiu
Released v0.9.1 of sendbroadcast.net

• Added Mailgun webhook integration for handling email opens and clicks and other metrics
• Fixed bug in Postmark webhook integration tracking
• Upgraded to Rails 8.0.1
Self-hosted email marketing software | Broadcast
Broadcast is an end-to-end email marketing software that helps you create, send, and analyze email campaigns. It is a modern, cloud-based platform that is easy to use and integrate with other tools.
sendbroadcast.net
December 21, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Who has created an internal tool and turned it into a product?
December 19, 2024 at 2:47 PM
I’m still alive folks!

Just in build mode at the moment. 🔨
December 17, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Almost 1 release per day this week.

I think I'm going to take Sunday easy.
December 15, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Sometimes customers will ask questions like “How is your product different from __?”

And sometimes there’s really no straightforward answer.
December 13, 2024 at 1:11 PM