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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

2 years

Personal update: I'm leaving my job to start my own company. Why am I doing this? What problem are we solving? Why now?

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

2 years

🤔 What makes a good error message?

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Zeno Rocha

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3 years

$ npm install

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4 years

Trying to fix a CSS bug

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Zeno Rocha

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3 years

Junior developers these days...

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Zeno Rocha

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4 years

From $0 to $20,145.92 in 2 months with a side project A thread... 👇

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Zeno Rocha

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2 years

I've replaced my old static icons with these vibrant animated icons. Here are a couple of libraries available out there: • • • Micro-interactions are the best 💚

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Zeno Rocha

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3 years

software engineer starter pack:

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3 years

I'm a big fan of open-source, so I decided to put together a list of alternatives for you. See thread for more details 👇

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Zeno Rocha

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1 year

Another huge announcement. Resend is now available to everyone! To celebrate, we're releasing a new website: Here are some of my favorite details...

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Zeno Rocha

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4 years

This is one of the best demos I've ever seen. 🤩 @adamwathan and @steveschoger from @tailwindcss were able to explain their entire value prop in one single code snippet. ✨ Simply brilliant. 👏

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Zeno Rocha

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2 years

Today I'm making Dracula UI free and open source. This is a dark-first collection of patterns and components made with React. 🧛‍♂️

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Zeno Rocha

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1 year

I'm super excited to announce that Resend has raised $3M 🎉 Here's how we're redefining email sending and our mission to provide the ultimate developer experience...

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Zeno Rocha

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3 years

Here's a compilation of my favorite courses for developers. See thread for prices and links 👇

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Zeno Rocha

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7 months

Big announcement today. We reduced render times for emails using @tailwindcss to be 23x faster. ⚡ Here's how we did it... 🧵

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

8 years

Now I can finally say that Clipboard.js is supported in all major browsers! There's no more excuse to use Flash for copying to clipboard 🎉

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Zeno Rocha

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15 days

Big announcement today. We’re putting our entire company strategy online. 35 posts on how we think about engineering, design, support, and marketing.

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Zeno Rocha

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2 years

🎉 Today we're launching the React Email docs! 👉 Here's how you can get started...

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Zeno Rocha

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2 years

Here's one thing I discovered — startups that focus on great design have a *huge* advantage over established players. Jira → @linear Excel → @airtable Calendar → @Cron Photoshop → @figma Gmail → @Superhuman Evernote → @NotionHQ Spotlight → @raycastapp Any other examples?

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Zeno Rocha

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3 years

Dracula UI is here! 🎉 A new library made for dark mode. • 21 components • Works with any HTML/CSS site • Built with TypeScript and React Get early access now 👇

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Zeno Rocha

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1 year

I'm excited to announce that is now backed by @ycombinator ! Our goal is to reimagine how email can be done in 2023 and beyond. With YC, we have the right partners to make this a reality.

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Zeno Rocha

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3 years

How I made $101,578.04 selling colors online A visual timeline... 👇

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Zeno Rocha

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7 years

The new GitHub dependency graph for JavaScript is great 🔥

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3 years

Developers trying to avoid meetings

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Zeno Rocha

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8 years

🐛 Firebug has been discontinued, but we'll never forget how it transformed the way we develop for the web. Thank you

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1 year

Some big news for users. Before, you could only send 100 emails a month. Now send up to 3,000 emails per month for free! Here's why we did it:

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6 months

We saved the best for last. Announcing React Email 2.0. 1. Re-imagined preview experience 2. Massive performance improvements 3. New components 4. Deployment to Vercel 5. Better support for monorepos Let's dive into each one of those...

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Zeno Rocha

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2 years

Pro tip 🔥 If you're building MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) into your app, make sure you add the autocomplete attribute.

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Zeno Rocha

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3 years

Most popular JavaScript frameworks over time 📽️ Video from @codersrank 📊 Data from @githubarchive

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Zeno Rocha

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2 years

A side project of mine just crossed $250,368.68 in revenue. I've been learning a ton, so wanted to share some ideas with you...

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

1 year

Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet @paulg . We sat down in a small room and talked about for 20 minutes or so.

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Zeno Rocha

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4 years

@unaizuluaga It was this one - Launch by @jeffwalker :

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Zeno Rocha

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3 years

🧐 Who is building the best developer experience? 🧵 Here are my favorite developer-first startups from 2000 until 2021...

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Zeno Rocha

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6 months

Nothing to see here, just opening some tabs at Apple Park in Cupertino 🤣

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Zeno Rocha

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3 months

Nine years ago, in March 2015, these two kids packed their bags and moved from Brazil to California. We had no idea of what was going to happen next, and I remember being super excited but also afraid. I have deep respect for every single immigrant because I know what it takes

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Zeno Rocha

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17 days

Resend just crossed 2k paying customers! 🎉 It took 1 year to go from 0 to 1k customers. It took 6 months to go from 1k to 2k customers.

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Zeno Rocha

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2 months

DevTools creators - here’s your new favorite tool:

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Zeno Rocha

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11 months

I'm constantly thinking about how we can push the bar in terms of developer experience. Here's our latest exploration... What if the entire API Docs was into the app itself?

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Zeno Rocha

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7 months

Next.js changed the way we build software. So, we wanted to represent the importance of it and explain how it works with Resend. Our vision is for Resend to become the de facto solution for email within @nextjs . That's why we're shipping this page:

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

3 years

Learning JavaScript in 2021

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

1 year

Email headers are these pretty advanced things that most people don't know how to use it. Here are two real-life examples...

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

3 years

The 10 Most Important Books You Can Read As A Developer

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

10 months

Last week I talked to @JustJake (CEO @Railway ), and he said something that really stuck with me. I asked him how they think about support and how they were able to scale to almost half a million users. He said that support is like a try/catch statement. There are all these

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

4 years

If you're curious about this side project I created, you can check it out here:

Dracula Theme

Dracula is a color scheme for code editors and terminal emulators such as Vim, Notepad++, iTerm, VSCode, Terminal.app, ZSH, and much more.

draculatheme.com

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

1 year

8 years ago I made the decision to move to the US. Leaving my family and friends behind was the hardest thing I've done. Last year I finally got my citizenship, and something clicked. It felt like I wasn't limited by anyone or anything. It felt like I could dream. So I moved

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Zeno Rocha

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1 year

Lots of people have been writing blog posts and recording videos about Resend. So we decided to make it easier for you to copy our logo and use any of the brand assets.

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

4 years

input !== output A good reminder that end results are not always what we expect.

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

1 year

For the last day of launch week, we have a special surprise... You can now build and send beautiful emails using @tailwindcss and React Email.

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

3 years

Want to customize the built-in HTML form inputs? Now there's a way - using 1 line of CSS 🤯

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

4 years

If you're considering creating a side project, stop waiting, and do it. Do it now. I mean it, close this page and start it right now. I'm sure you're not going to regret it a couple of months from now.

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

3 years

🤔 What if you could "run" a macOS on the web? 🤯 Check out this crazy page built by @puruvjdev using @sveltejs and @vite_js for bundling. 👉

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Zeno Rocha

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8 months

We just crossed 40,000 users at Resend. Now, one of our biggest challenges is around support. So we decided to experiment with AI to help with that. Here's what we discovered...

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

2 years

I'm creating a new side project... 👀

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

1 year

Sending test emails has always been a pain. It's a manual process that affects your domain reputation. Instead of using your personal email account or setting up a fake SMTP server, you can now use these 3 email addresses to simulate different scenarios...

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Zeno Rocha

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5 months

1 year ago, @resend was incorporated. Today: • The team is 6 people • Serving 1,154 paying customers • Powering 69,587 verified accounts • Sending millions of emails every month

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

5 months

How is life post @ycombinator ? One of the things I was most curious about during our batch was how life would be after Demo Day. I compiled some of the learnings from my own experience and asked other YC friends so you can get a feel of what happens after YC.

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Zeno Rocha

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6 months

Pretty wild year…

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3 years

React Components

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2 years

Early-stage startups

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Zeno Rocha

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1 year

dropping something new in two days 👀

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Zeno Rocha

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7 months

This week, the entire Resend team is in Rio de Janeiro. As a remote company, we believe that having some face-to-face time is super important. That's why every six months, we pick a country and meet there.

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

4 years

I've been building open source software for the past 10 years. And I always thought that monetization was evil. It took me a while to realize that money is not evil, money is oxygen.

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Zeno Rocha

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10 months

Writing the first lines of code for Resend with @bukinoshita . — December 22, 2022 // São Paulo, Brazil

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Zeno Rocha

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3 years

React + VSCode + Figma =

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Zeno Rocha

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3 months

I'm obsessed with one thing — Developer Experience. But what makes great DX? Today, we're sharing our philosophy with the world.

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Zeno Rocha

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10 months

Radix is the most underrated library out there. Even after years of using it, I continue to be amazed by the amount of care that goes into it. Today I found out that each color step was designed for a specific web app use case. Beautiful!

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

4 years

Alternative Big O notation: 🤘 O(1) = O(yeah) 😎 O(log n) = O(nice) 👌 O(n) = O(ok) 🤐 O(n²) = O(my) 👎 O(2ⁿ) = O(no) 🤯 O(n!) = O(mg!)

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Zeno Rocha

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10 months

We just crossed 20,000 users on . Here’s how we went from 0 to 20k in 9 months...

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

2 years

I’m officially a US citizen now!! 🇺🇸 In 2015, I left my family and friends for a new life in this country. The first year was extremely difficult. I worked very long hours and never felt so alone in my life. I can’t say that I have everything figured out, but I learned this…

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Zeno Rocha

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4 years

How Junior, Senior, and Expert developers solve problems

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6 months

WE WON! We won a Golden Kitty Award! 🙀🥇 @bukinoshita 's dream became true!

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Imagine this!

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4 years

In February 2020, I launched and... people started to buy. The feeling of receiving even $1 for your side project is unbelievable. It's really hard to explain. It opens your eyes to a different reality. Two months later this side project already made $20,145.92.

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Zeno Rocha

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1 month

Resend is now part of Laravel core! Why is this a big deal? This is the first native integration of Resend into a web framework. And not just any web framework - one used by hundreds of thousands of websites. Here's a video by @aarondfrancis on how to get started.

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Zeno Rocha

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5 months

Yesterday, we had an incident that prevented our customers from delivering their mission-critical emails. I'm deeply sorry about what happened and want to share the changes we're making to avoid outages like this in the future, whatever the cause. We know that actions speak

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3 years

Documentation is harder than coding.

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Zeno Rocha

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1 year

Demo Day is starting now! I've been waiting 3 months for this moment. It's been an amazing journey so far, and I still can't believe we were selected by @ycombinator . Good luck to all founders presenting today 🧡

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3 months

This is surreal. We just crossed 100,000 users on @resend ! It's been only ten months since our public launch, and I couldn't be more excited for the future. This is the story of how we got here and where we're going next...

What's next after 100,000 users · Resend

How we got here and where we're going next.

resend.com

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Zeno Rocha

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2 years

I'm really excited to take on the role of founder & CEO and to create an elite team of builders. We're creating something special here, and I can't wait to share it with you. Join the waitlist and you'll be the first to try it out:

Resend

Build, test, and send transactional emails at scale.

resend.com

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Zeno Rocha

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3 years

Imagine a terminal with autocomplete... Really excited about the launch of @fig ! 🎉

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Zeno Rocha

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9 years

✂ Introducing Clipboard.js 📋 Copy to clipboard without Flash. Built with ES6 + Browserify http://t.co/Gme9HWaR7V

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Zeno Rocha

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2 years

There are two types of people in the world: 1) Ctrl +C / Ctrl + V 2) Ctrl + CCCCCCC / Ctrl + V

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3 years

Migrating from JavaScript to TypeScript

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7 months

No more @resendlabs . It's just @resend now.

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1 year

My 2023 tech stack 📁 Database: @supabase 🔔 Monitoring: @betteruptime 🪝 Webhooks: @svixhq ✉️ Email: @resendlabs 📚 Docs: @mintlify 👨‍💻 Editor: @code ⌨️ Font: @firacode 📅 Calendar: @cron ✍️ Notes: @notionhq 🚀 Launcher: @raycastapp 🌎 Browser: @browsercompany Your turn

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Zeno Rocha

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4 years

My side project launched in February just hit $70,336.33 in sales. Here are 5 ways to monetize your open source project as an individual: 1. Ads 2. Licensing 3. Consulting 4. Sponsors 5. Premium Code (thread)

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3 years

Yesterday I launched my new site 🔥 I got tons of questions about it, so I decided to write a post about personal websites... 👉

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3 years

I've been keeping a secret from social media. it all started 9 months ago...

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4 years

I haven't played with Typescript yet, but this GIF convinced me to give it a shot. Here's a TS plugin that allows you to write SQL queries with autocomplete inside template literals. Source Code by @stevenmiller888

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1 year

Graduating from @ycombinator was a special moment for us, so we want to give back somehow. That's why we built this page: P.S.: Can you find the easter egg?

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11 months

Today we're launching an SMTP service! Here's a bit of background on why we invested in support of a 40-year-old protocol...

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9 months

Exactly ten years ago, I faced the most difficult time of my life. Here's the story of how I built a project used by 6 million developers in a hospital...

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6 months

Launch Week starts now! And today, we're announcing Resend Broadcasts. You can now enable your entire team to send Marketing Emails without code.

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8 months

Takeaways from this whole @OpenAI situation: 1. Your team is the most important asset 2. Satya just made the cheapest acquisition ever 3. Sam could be the next Microsoft CEO in 10 years 4. Even if the chairman of the board is your friend, you can still be kicked out

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3 months

This is a must-read for anyone building developer tools. You did it again @addyosmani . Favorite topic. Favorite author.

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3 years

Here are more open-source alternatives for you. See thread for details 👇

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11 months

Today we're launching an official integration with @supabase ! 💚 Here's how it works:

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1 year

After 8 years living in Los Angeles, today we’re officially moving to San Francisco.

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6 months

I'll always be a dark mode fanboy. But when it comes to light mode vs dark mode, the right thing to do is respect people's preferences. That's why today we're shipping light mode for @resend . Here's how we did it using @radix_ui and @tailwindcss ...

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Zeno Rocha

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3 years

Why some open-source projects don't get the attention they deserve? Here are a few lessons I learned from building a project with 30k GitHub stars.

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Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

3 years

My 2021 tech stack 📁 Database: @firebase 🔍 Search: @algolia 🚀 Hosting: @vercel 💳 Payment: @gumroad 📬 Newsletter: @convertkit 📊 Insights: @googleanalytics 🎨 Design: @figmadesign ✍️ Notes: @notionhq ✉️ Email @superhuman 👨‍💻 Editor: @code ⌨️ Font: @FiraCode Your turn

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