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Field notes and arguments on owning your inbox, sender, and newsletter instead of renting them. 2 articles
The real cost of transactional email at scale (a pricing teardown)
Transactional email pricing is designed to feel free. A fraction of a cent per email, a generous free tier, a dashboard that never shows you the marginal cost while you're integrating. It's a great onboarding experience and a quietly expensive steady state. This is a teardown: real numbers at 10k, 100k, and 1M emails per month, comparing the managed-SaaS model against running it yourself on Cloudflare, including, fairly, what Cloudflare bills you.
Email for vibe-coded apps: the part the agent forgets
Vibe coding is good now. You describe the app, an agent scaffolds the auth, wires a database, writes the deploy script, and you ship something real in an afternoon that would have taken a week of yak-shaving two years ago. The loop is tight: you stay in intent, the agent stays in implementation, and the friction that used to live between "idea" and "running app" mostly evaporated.