[HN Gopher] Postcard is now open source
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Postcard is now open source
Author : philip1209
Score : 61 points
Date : 2025-07-03 16:38 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.contraption.co)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.contraption.co)
| philip1209 wrote:
| Originally shared here in 2022:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33549267
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Great work Philip.
| austinjp wrote:
| Psst... it's down for me. Cloudflare error page says SSL
| handshake failed.
| philip1209 wrote:
| What's failing - the blog? Seems to be working fine for me and
| my uptime monitoring hasn't caught anything. Hopefully it's a
| blip!
|
| My hosting setup is . . peculiar:
| https://www.contraption.co/a-mini-data-center/
| npilk wrote:
| Your original blog post links to www.postcard.page, which
| throws a Cloudflare SSL error, but the bare domain
| https://postcard.page appears to work fine.
| philip1209 wrote:
| Ah, thanks. Just pushed a fix for this.
| ho_lee_phuk wrote:
| [flagged]
| philip1209 wrote:
| Well, this service has been live and maintained for almost 3
| years. And, if you self-host, then you can guarantee longevity.
|
| Github, Airbnb, Shopify, Stripe, Basecamp, Instacart, Zendesk,
| Square, and others seem to be staying online, too.
|
| I've written more about my Ruby opinions here:
| https://www.contraption.co/rails-versus-nextjs/
|
| (Discussed on HN here:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130546 )
| theappsecguy wrote:
| I mean, do you have a rationale or examples? I find that JS
| ecosystem is where projects go to die, whether npm libraries or
| projects.
|
| Rails and Ruby on the other hand offers one of the best
| ecosystems and a lot of stability
| citizenpaul wrote:
| I'll join your demise! I have a similar opinion and came up
| with my own answer.
|
| Ruby is effectively Rails. Something about this has always
| bothered me because I don't like ruby and it gets SOO much
| praise from users. Which all almost universally happen to be
| using Rails. I've never used rails so I could not say why
| authoritatively. I did find someone recently on here that
| talked about it and mentioned that Rails is steeped in "magic".
| That it is unbeatable for a single person founder to create a
| project of any size. The problem is all that "magic" becomes a
| huge point of contention/confusion/friction when non rails
| zealots get involved, which is basically everyone.
|
| Or to be more to the point Ruby and rails has a very specific
| use case and that use case has nothing to do with the
| application you are building rather the type and size of Team
| you are assembling.
|
| To me its just a more obscure Python with a much smaller more
| enthusiastic user base.
| darrenf wrote:
| The only Ruby tool I (knowingly) use is homebrew, including
| distributing internal tools at my employer via private taps. I
| feel like migrating to nix would be a hard sell, so I'm hoping
| homebrew isn't on its way out just yet!
| tomhow wrote:
| This is what the guidelines mean by "generic tangent", "shallow
| dismissal" and being "curmudgeonly". The comment is not about
| the project or topic, it's just a general expression of
| discontent with things related to the project, without any
| consideration of whether that pattern applies to this project
| or whether this project may in fact be an exception to the
| pattern.
|
| Please avoid comments like this on HN, and make an effort to
| observe the guidelines.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| rmujica wrote:
| It looks amazing! thanks for sharing. I also enjoyed your self-
| hosting post, I might give it a try.
| nanna wrote:
| This looks great but delivery via Amazon SES is a problem. I'm an
| academic and I tried to set up a work newsletter like this with
| Listmonk recently, but SES rejected my request to relieve me of
| sandbox mode for unspecified 'security reasons'. Everything was
| set up properly, it was under a domain under my personal name, I
| gave links to my profile page on my university website, ample
| explanation about what I would do with it (one email ever few
| months), that I would be the only sender, but they rejected it.
| So in the end I've opted for a hosted solution... anyone else had
| similar issues?
| philip1209 wrote:
| Postcard originally used Postmark. But, Postmark deliverability
| has been decreasing. And, for the open-source version, I wanted
| to simplify dependencies. So, I moved it to SES. It works for
| small lists, but won't scale to massive ones.
|
| I welcome PRs to add additional sending providers - it wouldn't
| be onerous.
| keysdev wrote:
| Would be nice to have just send using sendmail or what ever
| smtp server we chose. This is HN, and some of us have already
| done ip warming and to avoid any big players, as they all
| drop/block emails without telling their users and are not be
| trusted for reliable communication.
| pirsquare wrote:
| postmark is a garbage now. This is coming from a previous
| postmark advocate and moved to SES.
|
| SES is terrible in the past but now it is at least on-par if
| not better than postmark.
|
| Only issue with SES is setup can be tedious.
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