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I have a tool that I use to send email campaigns. It integrates with AWS SES and sends these emails at a fraction of the cost. I am planning to open source it in the next couple of weeks.

Can this awesome community suggest some names that have available domains? I’m open to using the .email, .app, and .dev TLDs.

I am working on a project that involves me sending emails to check-in with the users to make sure they have everything they need. This is in addition to sending engagement emails few times a year. To make life a little bit easier, I have been researching email automation tools like Drip, Mailchimp etc. While these tools are great, they are fairly expensive for my usage and have way too many features.

For now, I was able to solve my problem by writing a custom solution that sends bulk emails using AWS SES. However, this got me wondering what a productized email automation tool for developers would look like?

So, if you are a developer working on small projects, what are your email automation needs? How do you solve them today?

I recently came across launchaco.com which is super nice but for the most part, I end up building my landing pages by hand.

If you don't have a favorite landing page builder, what would your ideal landing page builder be?

At this point, I have launched many projects (some with the aim to make money and some just for fun). For all of these projects, I started coding first, completed the project, and then tried to figure out how to get users. Of course that never really worked.

The interesting part is that I always knew the theory - to test the idea with prototypes or just talk to potential users first. But I always started with the coding.

Well, here I am, after many failed launches, giving all of my energy to another product that I am truly excited for and passionate about. But this time, I will not code first.

I have set up a landing page and I'm collecting emails to have the first set of users IF I decide to go forward with this. I hope I do.

Of course, a lot of the credit goes to the HN community for really drilling this point in my head to not start with coding. Thanks, everyone!

For the curious, here's the landing page - http://gettaurus.in/. Feel free to tear it apart!