Wasp-lang•9mo ago

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If i have a simple saas idea and wanted to design a landing page to collect emails, what email service should i use to then send a welcome and thank you email to the subscribers?

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matijash•9mo ago

hmm seems you simply need a newsletter service for this case. I used mailchimp in the past, they have good free plan (up to 1k subs I think)

RyGough•9mo ago

MailChimp is an amazing tool. For a quick set up and generous free plan (much like wasp) I use https://www.sender.net/pricing/

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KillshotOP•9mo ago

Appreciate it, I will check them both out.

VS•2w ago

Do you all manually dump your database to a csv to find out who subscribed to your newsletter, or how did you that?

NEROX•7d ago

For collect any kind of mkt data, store it, have some analytics, and have the possibility to do after submit custom actions or send the info to any API, I used in my last company, if you want a really good form maker, I used https://codecanyon.net/item/easy-forms-advanced-form-builder-and-manager/14176957 It's a PHP script that needs to be runing in a Linux machine, I had it for example in doker with the $7 machine. You just build any kind of form, multistep, whatever you want. Save it and copy the embed code and done. Actually I will use it maybe with my Wasp App, instead of building my own forms and logic with tailwind or whatever. You can also sync it with GTM so in MKT terms you can track any potential action like.... idk: subscribed_newsletter, subscribed_waitlist, filled_demo_form, or any kind of action in GTM with Analytics

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NEROX•7d ago

I could share the source code because I had purchased it with the original license I could call it the Typeform Killer Just pay the machine, no data limits:salute_right:

VS•7d ago

Oh perhaps this is different that what I mean, the user has newsletter activated by default, or subscribes to the newsletter. I should somehow make a newsletter campaign and send email without having to do to work in the email.ts file that comes via wasp or? I think that's a bit low level. Defining the html there and sending it via a job Also keeping track of newsletter unsubscribe and so is not things I've thought about

NEROX•7d ago

I don't remember if It had the option to send email afterwards. What happens at this point is that here two parts come into play at the MKT level: the data collection (storing it), and the subsequent actions (sending email). This is where 2 different types of tools come into play. Newsletter tools (like Sendrid, Mailchimp...etc). And CRMs, such as (the best known): Hubspot, PipeDrive, SalesForce, etc.... In our case we decided to go for Customer.io. It is a platform that allows you to store MKT data, create segments, email flows, newsletters, unsubscribe, different types of newsletters, filters, etc... We chose this one mainly because of the great capacity of personalization it has, (CRMs and Sendrid had many limitations unless you paid more and more). But the “negative” point is that by letting Customer.io allow you to do whatever you want, it is up to you to check that it works well. But for example to give you an idea of some examples that we integrated with EasyForms and Customer.io: We had different landings pages with EasyForms forms, We used EasyForms to store the information of the forms, We sent it to Customer.io and with hidden fields of the EasyForms forms (yes, you can) we had several workflows with different actions depending on the conditions of the data we stored from the user. In other words, we could send you a personalized onboarding email flow based on the landing page you register.

VS•7d ago

Hmm still I think we're going down two paths, simply put how do you interact with your database and sendgrid to send emails and newsletters? You could define html and send that in wasp, but I find that rather low level

NEROX•7d ago

I think yes, the main question talks about "collect emails" and "send a welcome email". From my POV (MKT profile, non-dev) they are two different things. I also think that the easiest solution will define a simple html (with any email template or not) and just send with wasp

VS•7d ago

Mmm I don't think I agree, your website is great -- you're definitely a developer now! Also, the defining an html and so I don't think is clean, but maybe that's the way to go for the start. Claude is pushing down the path to use react-email which I guess I will use, but I really don't like the idea of making email campaigns in my codebase - I don't think it's a clean situation. at anyone who is interested, react- email is actually a great substitute rather than pasting pure html in your code. The emails.ts is a bit annoying as the email only accepts a Promise, but got it to work by this code

import { type GetVerificationEmailContentFn, type GetPasswordResetEmailContentFn } from 'wasp/server/auth';
import { VerificationEmail } from './templates/VerificationEmail';
import { PasswordResetEmail } from './templates/PasswordResetEmail';
import { render } from '@react-email/render';
import React from 'react';

let VERIFICATION_TEMPLATE: string;
let PASSWORD_RESET_TEMPLATE: string;

// Initialize templates
Promise.all([
  render(React.createElement(VerificationEmail, { verificationLink: '{{VERIFICATION_LINK}}' })),
  render(React.createElement(PasswordResetEmail, { passwordResetLink: '{{PASSWORD_RESET_LINK}}' }))
]).then(([verificationHtml, passwordResetHtml]) => {
  VERIFICATION_TEMPLATE = verificationHtml.toString();
  PASSWORD_RESET_TEMPLATE = passwordResetHtml.toString();
});

export const getVerificationEmailContent: GetVerificationEmailContentFn = ({ verificationLink }) => {
  if (!VERIFICATION_TEMPLATE) {
    throw new Error('Email template not initialized');
  }
  const html = VERIFICATION_TEMPLATE.replace('{{VERIFICATION_LINK}}', verificationLink);

import { type GetVerificationEmailContentFn, type GetPasswordResetEmailContentFn } from 'wasp/server/auth';
import { VerificationEmail } from './templates/VerificationEmail';
import { PasswordResetEmail } from './templates/PasswordResetEmail';
import { render } from '@react-email/render';
import React from 'react';

let VERIFICATION_TEMPLATE: string;
let PASSWORD_RESET_TEMPLATE: string;

// Initialize templates
Promise.all([
  render(React.createElement(VerificationEmail, { verificationLink: '{{VERIFICATION_LINK}}' })),
  render(React.createElement(PasswordResetEmail, { passwordResetLink: '{{PASSWORD_RESET_LINK}}' }))
]).then(([verificationHtml, passwordResetHtml]) => {
  VERIFICATION_TEMPLATE = verificationHtml.toString();
  PASSWORD_RESET_TEMPLATE = passwordResetHtml.toString();
});

export const getVerificationEmailContent: GetVerificationEmailContentFn = ({ verificationLink }) => {
  if (!VERIFICATION_TEMPLATE) {
    throw new Error('Email template not initialized');
  }
  const html = VERIFICATION_TEMPLATE.replace('{{VERIFICATION_LINK}}', verificationLink);

I made an admin page where you can see the email template you use, before you send them. This has the benefits of react-email and of sendgrid's analytics

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