1. Hack Princeton
Kunal Batra
Developer Evangelist
11/08/13

2. What is SendGrid ?
• Cloud based SMTP email Provider
– Transactional: Registration, forgotten
passwords, account notifications.
• Massively Scalable
• Analytics on the emails you send
– Unsubscribes, bounces …etc.

3. Why not build it myself ?
• Focus on your core application
• Maintaining Email Infrastructure Sucks!
– Costly, Time-consuming, Boring!!
• 20% of legitimate email goes to spam

4. Some of our APIs
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SMTP API
Web API
Parse Webhook (Cool!)
Event Webhook

5. Parse API Demo!!
Take a photo of some Text
&&
Send an email to:
ocrthat@si.ht

6. Take a Photo

7. Parse Data from email
//Get Post from SendGrid
$from = $_POST["from"];
$subject = $_POST["subject"];
//Get Attached Image
$fh = fopen('/tmp/parse.log', 'a+');
if ( $fh )
{
fwrite($fh, print_r($_POST, true) . print_r($_FILES, true));
foreach ($_FILES as $key => $file)
{
move_uploaded_file($file['tmp_name'], "upload/".$file['name']);
}
fclose($fh);
}

8. Convert Photo to text
$ocrapi = new Abby($config['abby']['app_id'], $config['abby']['password']);
$docName = $ocrapi->convert($file['name']);

9. Send reply email
//Send reply email with attached text document
$filePath = dirname(__FILE__).'/upload/'.$docName;
$sendgrid = new SendGrid($config['sendgrid']['api_user'], $config['sendgrid']['api_key']);
$mail = new SendGridMail();
$mail->
addTo($from)->
setFrom($config['sendgrid']['my_email'])->
setSubject('Re: '.$subject)->
setText($docName)->
setHtml($docName)->
addAttachment($filePath);
$sendgrid->smtp->send($mail)

10. Awesome Prizes- Retro
NES/SNES Game Systems

11. Ouya Gaming Console

12. Mortal Kombat- 1993

13. Assorted NES Games

14. Hack.Sendgrid.com
GO TO
Hack.Sendgrid.com
Sign up for a FREE account
&&
Tweet @kunal732 with your
SendGrid username to get
setup.