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Resend Open-Sourced Templates First, Then Sold Inboxes
From React Email on GitHub to a YC W23 email API: how Zeno Rocha and Bu Kinoshita's Next.js/Vercel playbook—not a naming scorecard—turned developer template pain into $3M seed and $18M Series A gravity versus SendGrid, Postmark, and Mailgun.
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Stripe Sells API Gravity, Not Checkout Buttons
From /dev/payments and a stripe.com acquisition to $65B→$159B: how Patrick and John Collison's API-first platform economics—not a naming scorecard—turned seven lines of code into Atlas, Radar, Treasury, and Climate.