APIs
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Guest post: SendGrid takes the Cake[PHP] when it comes to SMTP
56 days ago by Tim Falls
The following is a guest blog post from one of our customers and community members, Dave Loftis. Dave is an independent developer, and co-founder of VarVee.com and MyD8.net. You can check out his blog at blog.lofdev.com.

If you’re a PHP developer who is building a large Internet application, or even a small one, using CakePHP, you have undoubtedly taken a look at Cake’s built-in Mail component. The built-in component is simple and powerful, and it works well for most things you might do. It’s really great for sending “welcome-to-X” or “forgot-your-password” emails. But, once you deploy and start using things in the real world, you’re going to run into some very real issues. If someone requests a password reset, they expect that email to arrive to their inbox within seconds. No one wants to search their SPAM filters for a password reminder message from a site they use. And, heaven forbid if you have a few thousand users and want to integrate mailing list management, or track the status of your messages in real time.
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Customer Success Story: NudgeMail Reminders Always Arrive with SendGrid Infrastructure
70 days ago by Carly Brantz
NudgeMail is an email based reminder service and task management system. Due to the nature of the service, Nudgemail users expect these email reminders to arrive immediately and without delay. However, these demands required an infrastructure that was scalable to their growth and that required little internal management from their staff.
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SendGrid in the AppDirect Marketplace
76 days ago by Emmanuel Mwangi
At SendGrid, we were pleased with AppDirect’s thorough and thoughtful integration with us. We were impressed with AppDirect from the beginning as they came to our first meeting with an implementation that was almost completely fleshed out. It was clear that they had done their homework and looked at our APIs closely. They gave us great feedback that we incorporated into making the Reseller API even better for all our partners. In addition, they were extremely responsive in their communication, making the integration a smooth process. read more
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Leveraging SendGrid’s Event API
97 days ago by H. Wade Minter
This guest post is from H. Wade Minter at TeamSnap, a SendGrid customer.
TeamSnap is a web/mobile tool to help keep sports teams and social groups organized. With that mission, email deliverability is critical. Our users send a lot of email, most of it important team-related business We need to make sure that the email gets delivered, as well as watch out for bouncing addresses or spam complaints. We don’t want to get blamed when someone shows up at the wrong field because they didn’t get the email that their coach sent out. Keeping our deliverability numbers high is paramount, as well as making sure we’re only send email out to people who should be receiving it. read more
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Empowering You
133 days ago by Carly Brantz
We want this to be the year you use SendGrid but more than anything we want you to be able to integrate and customize the system to your specific needs. As we near the end of our reasons you need SendGrid, it is all about empowering our users. We don’t have any complex code or integration. We’re compatible with your systems, your technology and your people so you can customize us your way.
Reason #7: Customize the System To Your Own Unique Needs.
SendGrid has multiple APIs that allow you to customize the service and retrieve information. These APIs allow you to configure your system to deliver specific reports and push data in real time – giving you the information you need to improve and expand your business operations. And by working with developers, we continue to augment our API collection to create more robust options that support your web applications. read more
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Vanilla Forums: Parse API FTW!
154 days ago by Tim Falls
This is a guest post from one of our users, Tim Gunter, Senior Systems Analyst at Vanilla Forums. Tim caught my attention with a recent tweet that read (and I quote), “I. Love. @SendGrid. Parse API so damned fantastic, I want to get an “I <3 Parse API” tattoo on my FREAKING FACE!” Later that night, our API had Tim feeling like the “Lord of the internets”.
As soon as I saw this, I had to learn more about the experience that inspired such excitement, and within hours Tim had sent me the story below…
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Recap of ReCommerce hackday in Las Vegas, Nevada
231 days ago by Brandon West
How many hackdays have you been to that include ziplining across 800 feet above a downtown parade? That’s how we kicked things off in Las Vegas for Recommerce Day, a hack event with a focus on retail and sponsored by a lot of great companies and API providers, including Zappos, Mashery, Twilio, Etsy, and Klout.
There were 19 incredible hacks presented and a lot of great prizes were given away.
The winner for Most Fun and Weird went to Rotten Huevos from @harmophone, a web app that uses the Rotten Tomatoes API to check the movie you’re about to watch, and then orders extra underwear via Manpacks if the movie is scary and might cause you to soil yourself.
The Best Mashup award went to Pik With Me, an iOS app that allows social garment selection. Users can search for garments via Zappos and Sierra Trading Post. They can then get feedback from their friends by inviting them to join in via Twitter, email, or SMS. Once connected, friends can suggest additional items which then show up on the paper doll and can be dragged around. Pik With Me was developed by @terencecarroll @renaun and @richardhoppes.
Best Overall went to 1st World Wants and Needs, a beautifully designed app that scraped Twitter for what people “want” and “need” and then provided links to items that might satisfy those demands. 1st World Wants and Needs was created by @shavonnahtiera @markjohnsoncc @mikebff and @markcicoria.
All in all it was a great event with a lot of great people, and we look forward to heading back soon!
Check out the photos and the relevant tweets on Storify!
Guest post: SendGrid takes the Cake[PHP] when it comes to SMTP
56 days ago by Tim Falls
The following is a guest blog post from one of our customers and community members, Dave Loftis. Dave is an independent developer, and co-founder of VarVee.com and MyD8.net. You can check out his blog at blog.lofdev.com.

If you’re a PHP developer who is building a large Internet application, or even a small one, using CakePHP, you have undoubtedly taken a look at Cake’s built-in Mail component. The built-in component is simple and powerful, and it works well for most things you might do. It’s really great for sending “welcome-to-X” or “forgot-your-password” emails. But, once you deploy and start using things in the real world, you’re going to run into some very real issues. If someone requests a password reset, they expect that email to arrive to their inbox within seconds. No one wants to search their SPAM filters for a password reminder message from a site they use. And, heaven forbid if you have a few thousand users and want to integrate mailing list management, or track the status of your messages in real time.
Customer Success Story: NudgeMail Reminders Always Arrive with SendGrid Infrastructure
70 days ago by Carly Brantz
NudgeMail is an email based reminder service and task management system. Due to the nature of the service, Nudgemail users expect these email reminders to arrive immediately and without delay. However, these demands required an infrastructure that was scalable to their growth and that required little internal management from their staff.
SendGrid in the AppDirect Marketplace
76 days ago by Emmanuel Mwangi
At SendGrid, we were pleased with AppDirect’s thorough and thoughtful integration with us. We were impressed with AppDirect from the beginning as they came to our first meeting with an implementation that was almost completely fleshed out. It was clear that they had done their homework and looked at our APIs closely. They gave us great feedback that we incorporated into making the Reseller API even better for all our partners. In addition, they were extremely responsive in their communication, making the integration a smooth process. read more
Leveraging SendGrid’s Event API
97 days ago by H. Wade Minter
This guest post is from H. Wade Minter at TeamSnap, a SendGrid customer.
TeamSnap is a web/mobile tool to help keep sports teams and social groups organized. With that mission, email deliverability is critical. Our users send a lot of email, most of it important team-related business We need to make sure that the email gets delivered, as well as watch out for bouncing addresses or spam complaints. We don’t want to get blamed when someone shows up at the wrong field because they didn’t get the email that their coach sent out. Keeping our deliverability numbers high is paramount, as well as making sure we’re only send email out to people who should be receiving it. read more
Empowering You
133 days ago by Carly Brantz
We want this to be the year you use SendGrid but more than anything we want you to be able to integrate and customize the system to your specific needs. As we near the end of our reasons you need SendGrid, it is all about empowering our users. We don’t have any complex code or integration. We’re compatible with your systems, your technology and your people so you can customize us your way.
Reason #7: Customize the System To Your Own Unique Needs.
SendGrid has multiple APIs that allow you to customize the service and retrieve information. These APIs allow you to configure your system to deliver specific reports and push data in real time – giving you the information you need to improve and expand your business operations. And by working with developers, we continue to augment our API collection to create more robust options that support your web applications. read more
Vanilla Forums: Parse API FTW!
154 days ago by Tim Falls
This is a guest post from one of our users, Tim Gunter, Senior Systems Analyst at Vanilla Forums. Tim caught my attention with a recent tweet that read (and I quote), “I. Love. @SendGrid. Parse API so damned fantastic, I want to get an “I <3 Parse API” tattoo on my FREAKING FACE!” Later that night, our API had Tim feeling like the “Lord of the internets”.
As soon as I saw this, I had to learn more about the experience that inspired such excitement, and within hours Tim had sent me the story below…
Recap of ReCommerce hackday in Las Vegas, Nevada
231 days ago by Brandon West
How many hackdays have you been to that include ziplining across 800 feet above a downtown parade? That’s how we kicked things off in Las Vegas for Recommerce Day, a hack event with a focus on retail and sponsored by a lot of great companies and API providers, including Zappos, Mashery, Twilio, Etsy, and Klout.
There were 19 incredible hacks presented and a lot of great prizes were given away.
The winner for Most Fun and Weird went to Rotten Huevos from @harmophone, a web app that uses the Rotten Tomatoes API to check the movie you’re about to watch, and then orders extra underwear via Manpacks if the movie is scary and might cause you to soil yourself.
The Best Mashup award went to Pik With Me, an iOS app that allows social garment selection. Users can search for garments via Zappos and Sierra Trading Post. They can then get feedback from their friends by inviting them to join in via Twitter, email, or SMS. Once connected, friends can suggest additional items which then show up on the paper doll and can be dragged around. Pik With Me was developed by @terencecarroll @renaun and @richardhoppes.
Best Overall went to 1st World Wants and Needs, a beautifully designed app that scraped Twitter for what people “want” and “need” and then provided links to items that might satisfy those demands. 1st World Wants and Needs was created by @shavonnahtiera @markjohnsoncc @mikebff and @markcicoria.
All in all it was a great event with a lot of great people, and we look forward to heading back soon!
Check out the photos and the relevant tweets on Storify!
