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The {{MEETUP_FRIENDLY_NAME}} is coming up today

4 points by cperciva ↗ HN
Did everyone get this email from startupschool@ycombinator.com, or did I do something to get special glitchiness?

Hi Colin,

The {{MEETUP_FRIENDLY_NAME}} is coming up today!

Time: {{MEETUP_START_TIME}} Address: {{MEETUP_ADDRESS}}

{{MEETUP_INSTRUCTIONS}}{{QR}}{{MEETUP_MATCHES_ATTENDING}} If you're no longer able to attend, please update your RSVP so that {{ANOTHER_ATTENDEE}} can go instead.

Best, The YC team

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anasdew
Your BOT didn't worked well.
mdtrooper
What?
cperciva
As the post says, I'm wondering if anyone else got a weirdly unfilled templated email from YC.
beardyw
You have permission to meet anyone you want wherever you like.
joshxyz
you have trigger a glitch in the matrix sir
tonymrey
I got the same email, I have no idea
hoofhearted
Yeah I received a similar email as well.

YC has a funky hodgepodge of React on Rails for their website, and it could use a major update considering they’re the leading tech incubator.

I emailed Dang about it, and he suggested that I build a product that solves this issue instead.

I ended up building a prototype on top of Docusaurus, and received a ton of developer feedback.

We’ve been working on it for about 6 months consistently now, and we’ve made huge progress on a simple CMS and content framework that would solve all of YC’s issues such as this accidental newsletter blast.

My goal with this project is to upgrade the YC website, as well as Paul Graham’s.

What do you’all think?

https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli

https://www.elegantframework.com/

toast0
I'm not on this particular mailing list, but sometimes I'll get emails like this where they clearly only made templating work for HTML mail and also only tested HTML mail, but they also send a multipart with text/plain which I prefer.

But then, sometimes the templating doesn't work for either part, or they only send an HTML template that hasn't been substituted.

But you know, the addressograph was only invented 130 years ago. Sending out mass mail is still pretty new.

US Patent 8175, granted in 1851, is also on point, a machine for printing names of subscribers of newspapers and something something (i don't read patent applications by rule, just in case they want to get me for treble damages...) https://patents.google.com/patent/US8175