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arikchakma/maily.to

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TLDR

An open-source browser-based email editor for building HTML emails that display correctly in Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail. Drop in pre-built blocks like buttons, images, and columns without writing any code.

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  root((Maily))
    What it does
      Visual email editor
      Cross-client HTML
      No code required
    Blocks
      Logo buttons images
      Columns footer
      Variables
      Show If Condition
    Tech
      React
      Tiptap editor
      Supabase auth
    Use cases
      SaaS email builder
      Transactional email
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Build a visual email editor into a SaaS product so users can design transactional or marketing emails without touching HTML

USE CASE 2

Create a branded email template with logo, buttons, and multi-column layout that renders correctly in Outlook

USE CASE 3

Add personalization variables to an email template so each recipient sees their own name or details

USE CASE 4

Design a conditional email section that shows different content to different audience segments

Tech stack

TypeScriptReactTiptapSupabase

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Requires Supabase credentials for authentication when running locally.

MIT, use freely in personal and commercial products with no restrictions.

In plain English

Maily is an open-source email editor you use in a browser to build HTML emails without writing code. The core problem it solves is that designing emails that display correctly across different email clients (Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, and so on) is genuinely difficult, because those clients each render HTML differently. Maily provides a visual editor with pre-built components that are already designed to work across these environments. The editor includes a set of building blocks you can drop into your email: logos, buttons, images, text with formatting options, dividers, spacers, link cards, multi-column layouts, and footer areas. There are also dynamic components like a "Variables" block (for injecting personalized content such as a recipient's name) and a "Show If Condition" block for conditional sections. You put together the email by choosing and arranging these components rather than hand-coding the underlying HTML. A hosted playground is available at the project website if you want to try the editor immediately without any setup. To run it yourself, the project is a monorepo built with TypeScript and React. It uses a rich text editing library called Tiptap under the hood and Supabase for user authentication. Setting it up locally involves cloning the repository, adding environment credentials, installing dependencies, and running the development server. The project is MIT licensed, meaning you can use, modify, and incorporate it freely in both personal and commercial products. The README notes that sponsorship is welcome, particularly from teams building paid tools on top of Maily.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I want to embed the Maily email editor into my React app. Show me how to install and initialize the Maily editor component.
Prompt 2
Using Maily, how do I set up the Variables block to inject a user's first name into the email at send time?
Prompt 3
Walk me through building an email template in Maily with a logo at the top, a body text block, a CTA button, and a footer.
Prompt 4
How do I export the HTML output from the Maily editor and send it via a transactional email API like SendGrid or Postmark?
Prompt 5
I want to self-host Maily. Walk me through cloning the repo, adding Supabase credentials, and starting the dev server.
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