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Call me old school, but I’m a big fan of email. That’s part of why I built Cortado, an app that allows you to create a custom daily email digest from sources like Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, RSS feeds, and Hacker News.
But while I love using email, I hate developing for it. There are endless combinations of providers
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When I was first asked to be a software engineering manager, I knew that saying yes would come with tradeoffs. On the one hand, it would be a chance to have more impact, mentor people, and develop my leadership skills. On the other, it was a job change: instead of solving technical problems myself, I would be helping others do
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It was a rollercoaster of a week. It began when my side project, which I’d been quietly building for seven months, unexpectedly made it to the number two spot on Hacker News. It ended with me considering whether I should give up on the project completely.
I learned the hard way how important a carefully designed sign-up process is. I saw a large percentage of interested people fail to sign up because of easily preventable flaws in the flow.
I built Cortado to make it easy to stay up to date with refreshing your feeds all day. It's a web app that gets the latest content from sources like Twitter, Hacker News, Reddit, and Youtube, and sends them to your email in a single daily digest.
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