Building an Email Confirmation Flow with Sailhouse, Netlify, and Resend
TL;DR: I built an open-source email confirmation system using Sailhouse's event architecture and Netlify serverless functions, using Resend for the emails. Grab it, hack it, use it! github.com/sailhouse/email-confirmation 1. Introduction: Why Email Confirmation Matters It's one of those things every project needs, but nobody's particularly excited to implement. These flows do important stuff: They stop the bots (mostly) Keep you on the right side of privacy laws Show users you're not going to spam them into oblivion Help maintain a list of people who actually want your emails After 20 years of working with these things (and seeing them break in production

TL;DR: I built an open-source email confirmation system using Sailhouse's event architecture and Netlify serverless functions, using Resend for the emails. Grab it, hack it, use it! github.com/sailhouse/email-confirmation
1. Introduction: Why Email Confirmation Matters
It's one of those things every project needs, but nobody's particularly excited to implement. These flows do important stuff:
- They stop the bots (mostly)
- Keep you on the right side of privacy laws
- Show users you're not going to spam them into oblivion
- Help maintain a list of people who actually want your emails
After 20 years of working with these things (and seeing them break in production