Launch HN: Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app

The lead

Hi HN, We’re Adeel and Umair, co-founders of Unlayer (https://unlayer. We let you add content creation to your applications without having to build an entire editor, renderer, template, and export stack yourself.

Why launch matters

Unlayer lets you create emails, web pages, and documents inside your app, in three different ways: in code, visually, or with AI. We started with an embeddable email editor because a lot of products eventually need one: CRMs, marketing tools, customer engagement platforms, marketplaces, internal tools, and vertical SaaS apps all run into this at some point.

What led here

At first, it sounds like a small feature: "just" add a drag and drop editor

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The editorial angle

We started with an embeddable email editor because a lot of products eventually need one: CRMs, marketing tools, customer engagement platforms, marketplaces, internal tools, and vertical SaaS apps all run into this at some point. You end up dealing with email rendering, Outlook quirks, responsive layouts, templates, merge tags, image uploads, exports, permissions.