Email Delivery. Simplified.

Why use SendGrid's Infrastructure?

• Building/Maintaining your own is "teh suck"
• Focus on your business instead
• Reliable delivery, Scalability, Real-time analytics
• We have a free developer account,
  200 Emails/day: http://hack.sendgrid.com/

Services/API's we offer

• Send Email:
  • SMTP
  • SMTP API
  • Web API
• Newsletter API
• Account Configuration over API
• Parse Webhook for incoming Email
• Event Notification Webhook

Installation of our Python
SMTP/Web Mail API library

• $ sudo easy_install sendgrid

  or

  $ git clone git@github.com:sendgrid/sendgrid-python
  $ cd sendgrid-python
  $ sudo python setup.py install

5 lines of code

• import sendgrid
  
  # build an auth object
  sgauth = sendgrid.Sendgrid("username", "password",
      secure=True)
  
  # build a message object
  sgmsg = sendgrid.Message("from@address.com", "subject",
      "plaintext body", "html body")
  
  # add a recipient
  sgmsg.add_to("my@recipient.com")
  
  # send the message
  sgauth.smtp.send(sgmsg)

Live Demo

• Live Photo Booth App
• Stores images on disk
• We want to Email photos to ourself
   
• Works on Chrome v22+, Opera 12.0+, requires a webcam
• demo
   
• Heroku Demo

Tim Horton's Challenge

• Tim Horton's gift card to first 5 people who integrate SendGrid in less time than this lightning talk
• ian.douglas@sendgrid.com or @iandouglas736
   
• T-shirts for current users, stickers
• Coupon code for 50% off 3 months of service when you sign up for a paid plan
• sign up for free: http://hack.sendgrid.com/