Jeffrey Dill

Starting in August of 2015, I began building a company called MailSnail with my friend and co-founder, Matt Bertino . To follow along with my personal thoughts on the ins and outs of the company, experiences, lessons learned, technical details, etc., please check out the posts below. I’ll continue to add new posts here as I publish them. Post 1: Starting a Company Post 2: Building a Product Post 3: Launching a Product

This is the second post in a series I’m writing about a company I’m starting up (or have started, depending on when you’re reading this). You can read other posts in the series here . As I’ve talked about here , I’m starting a company called MailSnail . In this post, I want to share the ins and outs of how we’ve built the product (i.e. the actual web application). The Buzzwords I’ve tried my hardest to make this post as approachable as I possibly can for anybody and everybody. I don’t want this to be something that is only interesting to folks who know what HTTP stands for or can rattle off it’s associated status codes. So for my non-tech readers, please bare with me for this one section and keep on reading. For my fellow tech-nerds, I figured you might not care so much about the minute implementation details but rather are just more interested in a list of all of the pieces of our tech-stack (because you already know the implications of each in their use). So here’s the qui