Pigeon
Email API for your app, through your own Amazon SES
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Details
- External ID
- 1271884
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Pigeon
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Email, API, Developer Tools
Description
Pigeon is a one-person prototype: an email API that sends the mail your product already owes people — welcome, password reset, receipt, invite — through your own Amazon SES account. Add a domain, drop in a sending key, call the API (Node, Python, Go, Java, Rust, Elixir) or SMTP. SES does the delivery; Pigeon holds the domain, key, log, and plan so bounces and limits show up before a user writes in. I built it for my own projects and use it there. This launch is to gather feedback, not to claim
Enrichment
- Niche
- transactional email platforms
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- email api wrapper for amazon ses
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a lightweight wrapper/proxy over the AWS SES SDK, providing a simplified REST API and SMTP ingress to send transactional emails.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 133 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #77 of 134 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 338 days after the earliest competitor.
- PigeonAtlas · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- GoMailer · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- VaultSandbox · hn · 2026-01-06 · 58 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- OfficialMail · ph · 2026-09-22 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Alias · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- receivemail.dev · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Posthorn, self-hosted mail gateway · hn · 2026-05-27 · 83 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Posthaste · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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