I built an app 🏋 to send emails years in the future 🎉 or conditionally 💀

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Hello Dev.to community!

After a few months getting to grips with Django, I've made pippip.email - a web app that lets you create emails and set a send date years in the future.

🔥 📨 💌 😊

What can it do?

You can create messages and set a send date. When the date occurs, the email is sent and you get a confirmation email.

Is that all it can do?

Well kinda, at the moment. Next feature is the "dead man's switch" - which doesn't require you to be dead, or male. 👀

Write a message and set the switch, then every 6 months we'll send you a check-in email with a link asking you to confirm you don't want the emails sent.

If you don't click the link, (or the links in the follow up email), we'll understand that you want your message to be sent!

🙌

Perfect for when you're concerned you might "disappear" and would like to send some final goodbye's, or let someone know something important.

How is this going to make my life better?

I can think of a few scenarios:

At a weeding, the happy couple could invite their guest to write them messages that they'll receive on their wedding anniversaries.
Write your mum a special email for her birthday, when you feel like writing it and not when you need to send it urgently
Write a message to your partner that they'll receive on your 5th anniversary. Do the same next year too and then they'll have a wonderful present.
At graduation, a group of friends get together and write letters to each other guessing what their lives will be like in 3 years time.
Write yourself an email that you'll receive next year. Give yourself some good advice and encouragement.