Ask HN: Would you pay for simple PostgreSQL email integration?

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5 years ago

I have a web crawler which sometimes fails. To make sure its running properly, I'd like to get an email each day with the latest 5 records in the Postgres table. Or even better, send an email if "something doesn't look right" (e.g. no data for 2 hours).

I've also had similar use cases in this domain (i.e. SQL + email):

* When a new row is entered into my 'contact' table, I'd like an email to be sent to me

* Create a VIEW (e.g. last weeks sales) then send the results of it each day to a list of people (e.g. sales team)

Does anyone else have this pain point? i.e. "integrating email into your Postgresql database". I've tried using Zapier but it doesn't offer exactly what I want

So I was thinking of building something like this: https://imgur.com/a/S54o7ea

Should I build this or is it a terrible idea?

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