I feel like this is something we all go through. Some are more natural / comfrotable at promotion. I am like you though. And while I do ship and try to promote, I still am very embarrassed by it. Good post.
SMTP is designed to not lose mail in the event a mail server goes down. It's generally days before an email is abandoned (bounced) if the dest server is down for that long. Every other hypothetical you list applies to all services involved.
Hi all! I'm pretty excited to share our project with the HN community.
AnyHow is a consultancy management platform aimed at agencies and freelancers. We began building this product in 2012 for our company Netlandish. Over the years it kept getting better and at some point we realized that, for our business at least, it was the best option available. We began to share it with our friends who would use it for their businesses and would then tell their friends about it.
We finally decided to do the work to make it available to all. While we're publicly launching today, AnyHow has already managed hundreds of projects worth millions of dollars for a couple dozen companies. In short, it's already battle tested.
I won't go into too many details on features, etc. here but some core things are Time tracking (multiple methods/workflows), invoicing and accepting payments, centralized discussions/file storage/wiki (w/ client access), automation for normal tedious tasks, and lots more...
If you'd like some more details see the features page[1] or an even longer list on our YesAQ page[2] (thx Basecamp!)
You can also check out this YouTube video showing brief demo's of a lot of the core features.
Tech stack (what we mostly care about here right?)
Python 3.8, Django 2.2.x, PostgreSQL 11 db, Redis, Memcached, Celery, AWS SES/S3, nginx, uwsgi. Hosted at Digital Ocean on systems running FreeBSD 12.1.
We've got a full API for the feature set ready as well. The docs are not quite complete (thus why no API links on the site yet) but that should come soon!