Resend
Category: Email Service
With so many email providers out there, Resend is the one that actually lets you build your own setup. It’s an email layer that behaves like the rest of your application. You get a clear API and visibility into what’s happening, but the workflow lives inside your codebase. The dashboard handles logs and configuration, while everything else stays in your repo. That’s why I use it; I control the templates, logic, and structure. You can build from scratch without constraints. These are my favourite types of tools; they give you the foundation and leave the design to you.
How I Use It
- Pull my Archives Newsletter content from Sanity directly into my API route
- Render the email using React Email so every template is versioned in my repo
- Trigger Resend to deliver the Archives Newsletter via a clean server-side function
- Use Resend’s logs and webhooks to track sends, failures, and retries so I can always see what’s happening
Something to Try
Use resend and create a daily micro newsletter engine that curates one surprising idea from your browsing history and sends it to yourself.