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4-hour build log #1: an email API with sign-in and card payments, from the first commit

On the evening of 4 October we built email59.com, a small email API for developers and bots. Here's the git log, hour by hour: what shipped, what broke, and the one thing that didn't fit in four hours.

October 8, 2026

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Tools for developers, data people and small teams.

Biz59 LLC is a small company in New York. We build and run eight products, most of them with one sign-in, and we write about what we see in software, AI and startups.

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