Waypoint

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The email API built for product teams

Winter 2021United States; Remote

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About

Waypoint combines a modern email API with a visual template builder so teams can ship faster. Alternative to SendGrid, MailGun, or Postmark.

From their website

as of Jun 7, 2026www.usewaypoint.com ↗

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Waypoint is an email API designed for product teams, offering a transactional email platform with a visual template builder. It emphasizes collaboration between designers and developers to ship transactional emails without bottlenecks, leveraging a world-class infrastructure for high deliverability.

Waypoint provides an API to send transactional emails by passing JSON data, with sandbox endpoints for testing. Designers can build templates visually, while developers wire in data to drive content and logic. The product supports reusable template layouts, custom domains with SPF/DKIM/DMARC, attachments, webhooks, unsubscribe management, and built-in sandbox testing. It emphasizes rendering consistency across clients, high deliverability via AWS infrastructure, and detailed send monitoring (logs, opens, clicks).

Who it’s for: Product teams (PMs, designers, and engineers) responsible for transactional emails in software products; not intended for one-off marketing emails.

Features

API-based email sending with data-driven templates
Visual template builder for non-developers
Template reuse with headers/footers for branding
Custom domains and authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
Sandbox testing environment
Attachments and webhook support
Deliverability-focused infrastructure and analytics

Hiring mentions and references to product-focused collaboration; traction indicated by customer testimonials and open-source builder integration themes on the site

Founders · 2

Jordan IsipFounder

Product designer with over 15 years of experience helping grow and develop new products within large organizations and small startups.

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Carlos Rodriguez-RosarioFounder

Puerto Rican, now living in Portland, OR. Interested in payments, taxes compliance, infrastructure as a service, messaging tools.

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Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Jun 2023

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Software teams use Waypoint to build, orchestrate, deliver, and monitor email notifications – with little to no code.

Waypoint enables software teams to design, orchestrate, monitor, and deliver data-rich, transactional emails with minimal code. It provides a template builder, Liquid/Markdown support, a developer API for triggering workflows, and observability features to track events and deliverability.

From the original launch (Jun 2023) — may be outdated.