Founder announcement email template

A personal note from a founder, with a logo, a greeting, one message and one call to action.

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From: Northwind <[email protected]>
Subject: Northwind is now open to every team
Preview text: Northwind is now open to every team

Preview of the Founder announcement template

announcement.txt

{{headline}}

Hello, I'm {{senderName}} 👋

{{senderRole}}

Hi {{name}},

{{message}}

{{actionLabel}} [{{actionUrl}}]

Thanks for reading,

{{senderName}}

{{senderAddress}}
Unsubscribe [{{unsubscribeUrl}}]

Shown with sample values. The HTML and plain-text tabs keep the placeholders.

About

When to send it

Send it for news that should come from a person rather than a team. It opens with the sender's name and role, greets the reader by name, carries one message and one button, and ends with a postal address and an unsubscribe link.

10 values to fill

What each send fills in

Required values have to come with every send. The rest fall back to the default shown here.

Placeholder	Kind	Required	Default
`{{headline}}`	Text	Required	None
`{{logo}}`	Image	Optional	https://placehold.co/160x160/09090B/FAFAFA/png?text=Logo
`{{senderName}}`	Text	Required	None
`{{senderRole}}`	Text	Optional	None
`{{name}}`	Text	Optional	there
`{{message}}`	Text	Required	None
`{{actionLabel}}`	Text	Optional	Take a look
`{{actionUrl}}`	Link	Required	None
`{{senderAddress}}`	Text	Required	None
`{{unsubscribeUrl}}`	Link	Required	None

API

Send it from your code

Create a template from this design once, then send it with the values for each message.

import { init, nextmail } from '@nextmail/sdk' init({ apiKey: process.env.NEXTMAIL_API_KEY }) await nextmail.templates.create({  name: 'Announcement',  slug: 'announcement',  starter: 'announcement',  publish: true,}) const sent = await nextmail.templates.send('announcement', {  from: 'Northwind <[email protected]>',  to: '[email protected]',  props: {    headline: 'Northwind is now open to every team',    logo: 'https://nextmail.sh/email-templates/samples/logo.svg',    senderName: 'Priya Nair',    senderRole: 'Founder, Northwind',    name: 'Maya',    message: 'For the past year Northwind has been invite only while we got the basics right. From today anyone can create a workspace, and everything you set up during the beta carries over as it is.',    actionUrl: 'https://example.com/whats-new',    senderAddress: 'Northwind Ltd, 42 Harbour Lane, Bristol BS1 4XE',    unsubscribeUrl: 'https://example.com/unsubscribe',  },}) console.log(sent.id, sent.status)