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useSend

Open-source email platform (formerly Unsend) for transactional and marketing email built on Amazon SES, self-hosted with your own SES account or on useSend's cloud.

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Where it fits

Transactional Email · Open-source platformAn open-source Resend-style dashboard and API for transactional and marketing mail, on top of Amazon SES prices.Trade-off: A young project; self-hosting means running it and managing your own SES account, sending limits and reputation.

How useSend itself is built

2 tools, from its own code, website and Product Hunt page.

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Who uses it

No maker's live product on record yet, and 1 open-source projects that declare it in their code.

Declared in code 1How evidence is collected →

We haven't found a maker's live product that uses useSend yet — only the open-source projects below, which declare it in their code.

Open source: a project that declares useSend as a dependency in its public code — verifiable, but not necessarily a live product.

Alternatives to useSend

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ResendA modern developer API with email templates written as React components.Free tier942 makers · transactional email
PostmarkDeliverability when the mail has to arrive within seconds.Free tier612 makers · transactional email
MailgunHigh volume and inbound email parsing and routing.Free tier47 makers · transactional email
Amazon SESSending at high volume, where cost per email matters more than tooling.4 makers · transactional email
SendGridOne vendor for both jobs at large scale.1055 makers · transactional email
PlunkTransactional emails, event-triggered sequences and newsletters in one open-source tool, billed per email with no monthly fee.Open sourceFree tier5 makers · transactional email
NodemailerSending email from Node.js through any SMTP server or provider, without tying your code to one vendor's SDK.Open sourceFree tier

Questions makers ask about useSend

Is useSend free?

Yes — there is a free tier a small product can run on; paid use starts at $10/mo minimum usage. source ↗

Is useSend open source or self-hostable?

Open source, and you can self-host it. source ↗

Can AI coding agents work with useSend?

It serves an llms.txt docs index.

Who uses useSend?

No maker's live product we track yet; 1 open-source projects declare it in their code. source ↗