EmailOctopus founder on why vibe coding your own email service provider is harder than it looks
ayushtweetshere · x · 2026-10-16
Someone floated vibe coding their own email service provider. EmailOctopus founder @tdevans responded: his product started 10 years ago as the OG hosted SES wrapper and only morphed into a full low-cost ESP five years later — implying deliverability, infrastructure and years of operational learning are the real moat, not the code.
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