Build better, faster: Your one-stop guide for Beefree SDK resources
Learn more about available resources and tools for getting started with Beefree SDK.
In this SDK Spotlight session, Lawrence walks you through everything you need to get up and running with the Beefree SDK—fast. From developer docs and our GitHub repo to webinars and support options, you’ll see exactly where to find help when you need it.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and Housekeeping
01:16 Welcome and Session Overview
02:48 Developer Resources Overview
04:31 Developer Advocate Role
05:50 Navigating the Developer Hub
11:57 Exploring Documentation and Support
14:08 Beefree Academy and Blog
16:19 YouTube Channel and GitHub
17:08 Exploring GitHub Repositories
18:31 Introduction to Twitter/X Page
20:21 Q&A Session Begins
21:31 Discussing AI and Simple Schema
23:23 Addressing Documentation and API Queries
25:37 Final Thoughts and Community Engagement
The following text includes the complete transcript for this video.
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Good morning, all! Good morning, all! Real
quick check before we get started. I think
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I have one minute or 30 seconds left.
Is my audio okay? Am I totally audible,
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clear? Is the audio okay? You all are my
test engineers. I see thumbs up! Thank
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you for the thumbs up. Good to go. Just
to be sure, I'm going to turn off this
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fan. Don't want any interruptions. And
it is 11 Central, so let's get started.
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Good morning, and good afternoon, and good
evening to our global audience from Beefree
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SDK! My name is Lawrence Lockhart, and
I'm the host of our spotlight session
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today that has everything to do with the
Beefree SDK, but even more importantly,
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the Beefree SDK resources for developers. Now,
while I'm going through the intro, feel free—I
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see some of you are already doing it—just say
hi in the chat. Let us know your name and where
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you're from. I love to shout out hometowns, and
uh, we like to say hi to you in that fashion.
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But today is a very special session. Simple
agenda: The first half of our day-to-day, we're
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going to look at resources for developers that
are currently existing, right? Primarily, these
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are all online resources. But the second half is
where it gets really juicy, really exciting: We're
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going to open up the floor to you, the developer
community. We want to know what you would like
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to see from us in terms of resources available.
It might be a tweak to an existing resource, it
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might be something that's just not used anymore,
it's cumbersome, maybe it's a workflow—anything
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that can make your life better as a developer, we
would like to hear from you in the second half.
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And if you're brand new to Beefree,
you've never touched it before,
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you don't even know what it is, feel free
at that point just to add in the chat,
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'Hey, here's some things I'd like to see when it
comes to Beefree, when it comes to documentation,
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when it comes to onboarding, when it comes to
support.' Let us know those things down in the
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chat. We would love to hear from you.
This is a recorded session. Of course,
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it'll be available on our YouTube within a few
days. We'll be able to go back and get all of your
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feedback and hear what you're having to say, what
changes you would like to see. We're going to make
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note of those and get those information—those
information back to the appropriate party.
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So, in the meantime, we have Joshua Berrios, great
to see Joshua. He is a good friend of mine. We go
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back, um, to interviews, to podcasts, to tech
Twitter. Uh, 'Good day from sunny Florida.'
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Samantha Hoffman, she is the marketing genius,
keeps me on my toes. Great to see her smiling
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face virtually. Shares Rucker, glad to have
you here from parts unknown. Jake Olsen,
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also glad to have you here. Welcome this morning
or afternoon. Don't know where you're from. We
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do have a global audience and customer
base. Uh, Joshua hailing from Lincoln,
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Nebraska, product developer at Code Buddy.
Awesome, awesome! Thank you for that,
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Joshua. We need to get together again soon.
I've got a hello from Little Rock, Arkansas,
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very close to me, probably the close person award.
I'm hailing from the Memphis, Tennessee area. Uh,
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fun fact: The first tech meetup I ever attended
was in Little Rock, Jeremy, back when I was just
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making my transition into tech. And there
was nothing around my neighborhood. I did
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a Google search, and there was a boot camp
called Ironyard back then in Little Rock,
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and they had a Saturday, like, a three or
four-hour meetup session, 'Getting Started
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with HTML,' something like that. And I drove from
Oxford, Mississippi, to—to Little Rock, Arkansas,
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for that one session. So glad to have you here.
Jake hailing from Oregon. All good. I have been
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to Oregon only once—beautiful place. Share hailing
from Buford, Georgia. Shout out to all of you!
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Let's go ahead and get started. And again, those
of you who have joined, there are about 16 people
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here all together. Feel free just to say hi
real quick in the chat, where you're from,
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if you like. And if not, definitely participate
toward the end of our session today. So,
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like I said, today is a really special session
because we're going to look at existing resources,
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but also resources you would like to see. Now, my
position is Senior Developer Advocate. I am the
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only Developer Advocate or DevRel here at Beefree,
and I've been here for less than three months. So
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much of the program is still being written, and
we want you, the developer community—both those
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who are engaged in the Beefree ecosystem as
well as those who are on the outside and just
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curious—we want you to have a part, we want you
to be an active voice in shaping the programs,
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the resources, the assets that we're going to
put out in the upcoming weeks and months. We have
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some exciting things in the pipeline already.
Just sent some goals and some tasks to my man,
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to my manager, Luca Pinani, and, uh, we
want you to be able to input to those
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goals and give us some feedback as well. So
let's get started. If I do this correctly,
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I should be able to do a picture-in-picture
and share this screen right here with you.
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Alrighty, let's just get a thumbs up if you see
the homepage right there. Just a quick thumbs up,
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and we're going to keep on moving. Want to
make sure everything is sharing accurately.
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Thumbs up, yes, anything of that
nature. Do you see my homepage?
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Yes! Awesome! Thank you so much, Sherise. Thank
you, Mandel. Welcome, Mandel Gordon. Glad to
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have you! Alright, so as a developer, this is
the homepage for the entire company, Beefree.
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But more than likely, as a developer, you're
more interested in the SDK, specifically the
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Software Development Kit that will allow you to
embed our very powerful editor into your existing
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application. So right here where it says 'Dev,'
this is going to be your home base. And naturally,
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it's not cooperating with me. Alright, because why
would anything live work, right? I'm having—say
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what? Let's turn off. Oh, wow, didn't expect that.
So, you know what, we're going to just exit page.
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That's okay, because in fact, the most powerful
resource that I'm going to talk to you about,
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first of all, is myself. Hi again, I'm Lawrence
Lockhart, Developer Advocate. And developer
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advocacy is a very interesting role because it
has two sides of a coin. Many of you may know
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of developer advocates and think of them in terms
of, 'Oh, that's the people I typically see on the
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videos, that's the people giving the talks at the
local tech meetup, maybe at the conference.' And
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that's certainly a really big part of our output:
advocating, if you will, or representing our
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company to the developer community at large.
That's a huge part of our job. But there's
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another part, the other side of the coin that
I call it, and that is bringing your concerns,
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your interests, back to the company. Think
about it this way: If you've ever thought about
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a new software that you use, a new tool, a new
framework, language even, you thought to yourself,
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'If I just had someone on the inside I could
talk to, this could be so much better. If I could
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just get someone to listen to me, and I'm raising
issues in the GitHub and no one's responding, I'm
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sending emails. I wish I had someone on the inside
that I could not necessarily just complain to,
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but give some feedback about some of the tools,
some of the software that we're using, things that
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are going well, things that are not going so well.
I wish I had someone on the inside to advocate for
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me.' Ta-da! Here I am. I am he for Beefree. Now,
to be clear, if you're talking plans and pricing,
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you have account managers for that. If you're
talking hot button issues, production down,
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right, 3:00 AM in the morning, you have CSMs for
that. Maybe, yes, you have CSMs for that. But
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when you just need to nerd out about something,
or if you see something that's not quite right
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with the documentation, if you see something
that can be a little bit better, that can make
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your developer experience—that's a big key phrase
these days, developer experience—that it could be
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a little better, I want you to reach out to me.
So feel free just to follow me on LinkedIn. Here,
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if you do X or Twitter, it'll be the same little
funny yellow background, the same smiling face. My
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name is Lawrence Lockhart. Connect with me. I am
happy—I have done this many times—to engage via DM
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with things that you're experiencing, things that
you're going well, that you want to see continued,
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like, 'Hey, I love how y'all did the Readme on
this latest integration with Angular. Please
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do all the rest of them like this.' We want to
hear that. We want to get that feedback from you,
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and I'll get that information to the
appropriate sources. So number one resource
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I want to recommend to you is myself, Lawrence
Lockhart. Love for you to engage with me there.
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Now, let's try this again, because earlier
it didn't cooperate, maybe just too many tabs
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open. So this is the overall homepage,
but I think most likely, there we go,
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this is the page as a developer you'll be most
interested in. This is your developer hub. It has
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so much information. It's a great starting place,
particularly if you're not in the ecosystem yet,
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you're not even sure where to start. The homepage
obviously is for our whole company. The SDK,
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that's got the developer in mind. The SDK, the
developer page: developers.beefree.io. Now,
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as we scroll through this, you'll realize it
has a lot of information that's great when you
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want to share what is Beefree with someone
else, because maybe you've been using it,
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you want to suggest it to another company,
another team, you're not sure where to send
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them on our vast website. This is a great place
to go because you will find case studies, you
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will find high-level information about the email
builder, landing page builder, pop-up builder,
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file manager, content services API, template
catalog API. Of course, you know we have the HTML
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importer API as well. But you'll find results,
KPIs that have landed at various customers.
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You can share with other people. This is your
central hub for developers: developers.beefree.io.
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Now, before we get into all these links—I'm not
going to go through all of them—but I wanted
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to direct your attention to something that's
really, really exciting down here. This is Bix,
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and Bix is our AI-powered search. I love it!
I love it! I love it! 99.7, 99.9% of the time,
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it has absolutely knocked it out of the park
for me. We're going to try a live question here,
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a live prompt. So, y'all pray for
me if you don't mind. Let's just,
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uh, close that real quick, and,
uh, okay, doing way too much.
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Can we type, 'How'—oh, wow,
let's just try this again.
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Something in the sharing is not—there
we go. 'How do I create an add-on?'
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And this is going to do an AI search throughout
our documentation and throughout all of our
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information on the website to see how do you
create an add-on. I said, 'Ask it again,'
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because of course, I tested this earlier,
'Please share the full process once again.'
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And we're going to give it just a moment, but
I definitely want to let you know that this
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AI-powered assistant is live, it is out of
beta, it is available for you. And here we
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get the steps. Let's just check to make sure
they're right. 'Log in to the console.' That
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is accurate. 'Create your development app.'
That'll be accurate as well. 'Navigate to the
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application configuration, click on details.'
You have to have a Superpowers plan or above.
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'Select on add-ons, then click Create Custom
Add-on,' and go from there. And in this case,
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it even gave us a link for the documentation
relevant to that. So that was fantastic.
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Definitely want to use the AI-powered
search down here. It's called Bix.
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Now, from there, let's go up to some of
our links up top. Here we see 'Toolkit'
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with a dropdown. I think I need to close this
first. Excellent. 'Toolkit' with a dropdown,
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'Solutions.' I want to look at 'Docs.' I think
this is my personal opinion only, our docs are
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some of the most powerful and efficient assets
that we have in the entire ecosystem of resources
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for developers. We have a single technical writer,
Zire Ortiz. I give him constant props for the work
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that he has done, because in the documentation,
obviously we're going to go through, we're going
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to get right to our getting started guide
here, our quick start guide. I've done this
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multiple times. It's straightforward, it works
as is. Uh, then we go over to the left here,
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we see 'Creating an Application,' 'Installation
Fundamentals,' 'Development Applications,' 'How
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to Manage Users and Subscriptions.' And then as
we go down here, we see the different builders.
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As many of you know, we have three different
builders: one for email, one for landing pages,
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one for pop-ups. Descriptions for all those right
here on the left navigation. We also have these
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APIs to really extend the functionality of
your editor. So the Content Services API,
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Template Catalog, and HTML Importer. You can
access all those right here, at least information
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about them right here. Information about forms,
reusable rows, file manager, and other features,
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all available from this left panel within the
documentation. So big props to Zire Ortiz,
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constantly adding on. I just saw another site
message from this morning, some more updates,
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very much up-to-date, very helpful for developers.
I'm going to get out of the docs. We're going to
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go back over here, and I do see a question. Just
to keep myself focused, I'm going to come to your
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questions toward the end if that's okay. I want
to make sure I get all through this because we
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only have 30 minutes together. Um, but I do see
your question. Thank you very much for that.
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So from the docs, I want to go to what—I want to
go to next? I want to go to 'Support.' So let's
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just go to support.beefree.io. Of course, it's
cached, and what you'll see here is a slightly
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different look. Um, this search right here is
not an AI-powered search. This will be a standard
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fuzzy search. So we can just say, um, 'add-on
information,' for instance, and it's going to do
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a fuzzy search. It's going to look for the closest
thing and have a number of results. So this will
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be more like a traditional Google search, but
still can be effective depending on where you are
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within the platform. There's a link for getting
started guides right here. There's a form to
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fill out if you're having login issues here. And
then we have our Beefree Academy. Let's go ahead
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and click on Beefree Academy. If you've been to
Beefree Academy, you know much of the information
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here is geared towards our standalone app, but
there are resources for the SDK as well. Um,
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just not in the courses, but in the tutorials.
Many of these are going to be videos that touch
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on the SDK. As you see, the last spotlight session
I was in is featured here: the SDK HTML importer
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API. Um, that was really good. So SDK information
is available in the Academy, and I'm happy to tell
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you that on the planning right now is our first
end-to-end 'Getting Started with Beefree SDK'
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video series. You'll find it here as well. So
that is in the works. I'm really excited about
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that. I'm going to have a huge part to play
along with Mark—along with Mark Amenia right
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here. He is our video genius. So we have those
things coming together for you. But tutorials,
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courses, the Academy itself, and then additional
resources are all available in Beefree Academy.
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Alright, from there, let's go to the
blog. Now, I think I can navigate to the
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blog if I try hard enough. So let's just see.
'Learn,' yes, under the 'Learn' section here,
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there's another reference to the docs, tutorials,
some customer stories, and our blog. So some of
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you like to just read through, whether it's
case studies, whether it's the latest feature
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and how to use it. A lot of things with SDK that
you can use will be featured on our blog, like
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the most recent one is here, came out June 23rd,
which was just yesterday: 'How to Empower Users
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with Better Email Creation,' 'Why Choose Beefree
SDK.' Let's take a quick little pause here. It's
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interesting that I'm working at this company, and
I really love our team and our product. Fun fact:
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My very first job in the technical realm when
I got out of the restaurant business was as
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a front-end webdev in a marketing team. And one
of the things that I was responsible for was our
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sales emails. And we used, I'm not going to get
into it, it's painful, but a very, very painful,
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long, laborious solution to get emails out. So
really, really happy to be at a modern tool,
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the Beefree SDK, to allow us to do the same
thing but in a much better way. But yeah,
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'How to Empower Users with Better Email,'
and other blogs will be found in our blog.
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From there, let's go ahead and navigate to
the YouTube page. So I'm just going to start
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closing some of these up. I think I'm eating
up a lot of resources here, but our YouTube
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page is a fantastic resource, uh, for both
Beefree the app as well as Beefree SDK. Uh,
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this spotlight session you're on will
be uploaded here, as well as all of our
0:15:47.520,0:15:52.720
spotlight sessions are available in playlists.
You see a playlist for SDK sessions right there,
0:15:52.720,0:15:58.880
and a ton of other quick hit. Most of these
are 10 minutes or less, specific feature and
0:15:58.880,0:16:03.200
specific problems. We like to think about problems
and solutions. So you can probably search for
0:16:03.200,0:16:07.120
different problems you're having. Many of them you
might even find a YouTube video to correspond to
0:16:07.120,0:16:12.720
it. So definitely check out our Beefree YouTube
channel at your convenience. Time is flying,
0:16:12.720,0:16:16.160
I can't believe it's 11:16 already.
We will come to the questions shortly.
0:16:16.160,0:16:22.960
So from there, let's go on to the GitHub. Our
GitHub features 16 repositories, all made with
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you in mind. Now, the popular ones we have here
that are starred include our sample client, which
0:16:27.200,0:16:33.200
is the sample HTML client. We also have our React
starter here. We have our ASP.NET one somewhere
0:16:33.200,0:16:40.640
in here. We have ASP.NET. There's one for Vue.js,
excuse me, for Next.js. We have some sample forms.
0:16:40.640,0:16:45.600
We have our npm package right here. The official
package is right here. You can check out if you
0:16:45.600,0:16:49.120
want to see behind the scenes, you're that kind
of person, it's available for you right here. But
0:16:49.120,0:16:54.960
definitely want to check on assets, templates. A
number of templates are available to you that you
0:16:54.960,0:17:01.440
can see right in our GitHub repository, in our
GitHub account, including brand new as of today,
0:17:01.440,0:17:07.120
our pop-up templates. We have nine pop-up
templates. As you see, 18 hours ago, 18 hours ago.
0:17:07.120,0:17:12.320
So this is not a repo or a collection of repos
that's just standing there stagnant. These are
0:17:12.320,0:17:18.160
code repositories that are being updated for your
benefit. Like, we have one called 'World Music
0:17:18.160,0:17:23.520
Day,' 'Welcome Back,' 'Nonprofit Fundraising for
Africa,' et cetera. A few templates you can check
0:17:23.520,0:17:28.560
out on your own. I'm just going to click on 'Black
Friday' just as a for instance. We got the HTML,
0:17:28.560,0:17:33.120
the JSON, and an image. I think that's
pretty doggone cool. So definitely check
0:17:33.120,0:17:41.920
out the templates. They're in our GitHub, in our
GitHub account, that you can find right here.
0:17:41.920,0:17:49.280
Alright, from there, I want to go to—and I'm
almost finished with my portion—our Twitter page.
0:17:49.280,0:17:54.400
I'm sorry, our X page. I just can't stop saying
Twitter! So really exciting thing happened about
0:17:54.400,0:18:03.440
two to three weeks ago: We have, at my urging,
taken our X account and made it SDK-focused. Now,
0:18:03.440,0:18:08.160
this is important to you because as of right
now, we don't really have a focused forum like
0:18:08.160,0:18:13.600
a Discord or a Discourse or a Slack for you
to just nerd out with other developers about
0:18:13.600,0:18:18.400
all things Beefree SDK. Now, we do have
a channel within the Email Geek Slack.
0:18:18.400,0:18:23.120
We invite you to join that. But in terms of
our wholly-owned space, this would be a great
0:18:23.120,0:18:28.640
place for that. So all of these recent tweets
are all coming from me, even the cringey GIFs,
0:18:28.640,0:18:33.520
uh, because this is all now SDK-focused.
So feel free to jump into the comments,
0:18:33.520,0:18:38.240
ask questions, add your own comments, things
that you're working on, not working on anymore,
0:18:38.240,0:18:41.920
things that have worked and not worked for you.
We're working on a new banner for here as well.
0:18:41.920,0:18:49.520
This is now totally Beefree SDK-focused,
and I'm happy to be at the helm of that.
0:18:49.520,0:18:55.440
Now, per my links on my list, that is all. So
let's just make sure we went over them all.
0:18:55.440,0:19:00.560
First resource is myself. Feel free to connect
with me on X and/or LinkedIn. Definitely LinkedIn
0:19:00.560,0:19:04.400
is the professional connecting site. We looked
at the homepage. We want to go from there to the
0:19:04.400,0:19:09.760
developers page as your portal. We looked at the
developer portal, looked at the docs page, the
0:19:09.760,0:19:17.200
support page. We looked at the Academy, the blog,
YouTube, the GitHub repos, and of course, our
0:19:17.200,0:19:25.840
revamped X account. That leaves 11 minutes for me
to focus on you. So let's just stop sharing real
0:19:25.840,0:19:32.720
quick. We're going to turn off picture-in-picture,
and we will stop sharing as well. And so now we're
0:19:32.720,0:19:37.280
going to come to your questions and hear
from you: What would you like to see in our
0:19:37.280,0:19:41.920
resources? What assets can we add? What can
we do a little better on that front? So I'm
0:19:41.920,0:19:48.080
just going to find the first one here. Y'all give
me just a moment. I think these are all intros.
0:19:48.080,0:19:53.120
Alright, Jeremy asked, 'Lawrence, do you typically
join external Slack channels that Beefree
0:19:53.120,0:19:59.840
establishes with clients?' That is not something
that I do, but I am available for that if that is
0:19:59.840,0:20:03.440
of interest. So we would like to let the clients
be the driver for that kind of thing. Obviously,
0:20:03.440,0:20:06.960
every client is different in how they
manage it. In some cases, it's a, 'Yes,
0:20:06.960,0:20:11.840
we want them here in the room with us working and
collaborating with us,' and if that's available,
0:20:11.840,0:20:16.000
definitely send me an invite. I would love to
do that. But I don't want to just invite myself
0:20:16.000,0:20:19.920
to a room I'm not invited to, because
there may be proprietary issues, NDAs,
0:20:19.920,0:20:23.840
things of that nature. But am I available for
that? Absolutely. I would love to get in the room
0:20:23.840,0:20:31.760
and nerd out with you. Great question, Jeremy,
I appreciate you very much. And Samantha had
0:20:31.760,0:20:36.640
a great answer for that as well. Thank you
for that, Samantha. Got a thumbs up there.
0:20:36.640,0:20:44.320
Josh said, 'I was going to ask about using AI with
a Beefree email builder.' Yes, so AI, the topic of
0:20:44.320,0:20:54.400
all topics. We definitely have the, um, AI search
here. But there's also a thing known as Simple
0:20:54.400,0:21:01.280
Schema that just might interest you, Joshua. I'm
not going to read this to you entirely, but I will
0:21:01.280,0:21:07.200
say that Beefree JSON is our JSON schema we use
to structure and validate designs in Beefree SDK.
0:21:07.200,0:21:12.720
It does not provide the best structure for
training AI models. The SDK Simple Schema,
0:21:12.720,0:21:17.520
so this is a different schema that we have, is a
lightweight alternative to our more robust JSON
0:21:17.520,0:21:25.120
that is more accessible for AI engines and humans
as well. That said, I'm actually just finished
0:21:25.120,0:21:30.000
writing an outline for a talk that's going to
take us from a prompt with a design all the way
0:21:30.000,0:21:36.320
to a fully fleshed out and deployed, uh, email
that's going to be hosted in an application. Uh,
0:21:36.320,0:21:40.560
so I'm going to make sure that's recorded and get
you—get a copy of that as well. Thanks for that
0:21:40.560,0:21:45.680
question, Joshua. And I was just showing something
that you could not see, so let me just share that
0:21:45.680,0:21:49.440
real quick. I'm looking at the screen as if you
can see it. You clearly cannot see it. So let's
0:21:49.440,0:21:56.240
just do that really, really quickly. I was on
this screen right here. Sorry about that. There
0:21:56.240,0:22:02.640
we go. So Simple Schema, right? Simple Schema is
designed for not only humans, but for AI-driven
0:22:02.640,0:22:06.800
design. So feel free to look that up. It is a data
structure. There's a different type of JSON that
0:22:06.800,0:22:13.280
will still represent so much of the full power
of the email that we put out on a regular basis.
0:22:13.280,0:22:17.200
Alright, stop sharing so I can see these
questions again. Alright, thank you,
0:22:17.200,0:22:21.280
Joshua. 'Humble beginnings are always
painful.' Absolutely, absolutely they
0:22:21.280,0:22:27.600
are. And Samantha came through once again with
some information. Looks like that one is about,
0:22:27.600,0:22:34.080
uh, add-ons and visual builders.
Awesome! Thank you so much for that.
0:22:34.080,0:22:38.560
Jeremy says, 'We were given a PDF
document to document the for/coedit
0:22:38.560,0:22:43.200
endpoints. I don't see any documentation
for those endpoints on the website. Is
0:22:43.200,0:22:51.920
that coming?' That is a great question.
And that is for the co-edit endpoints.
0:22:51.920,0:22:58.080
And I'm going to real-time search two places. Uh,
0:22:58.080,0:23:08.880
that is the helps—so not the help center. Let's
see here. I think it might be in documentation.
0:23:08.880,0:23:12.720
I want to drop a link here
for you, Jeremy. Let me know,
0:23:12.720,0:23:20.480
does this address what you were going for or not?
That is in the documentation right now. Also,
0:23:20.480,0:23:23.600
I saw an update from our technical
writer I mentioned earlier. Let me
0:23:23.600,0:23:30.960
just search if that was mentioned for him.
Beefree—oh, I need to fix that. Thank you.
0:23:31.680,0:23:40.560
I think that was in Beefree SDK docs. There we
go. 'See preview changes,' 'CSS changes.' Nope,
0:23:40.560,0:23:51.200
not there. 'Saved rows,' 'hosted rows,' 'front-end
commands,' 'check endpoints.' See, is that it?
0:23:51.200,0:23:56.480
So this is endpoints for check-in points.
That is not what you're asking for. Alright,
0:23:56.480,0:24:00.240
just let me know, John, um, let me know if
that was what you were asking for there.
0:24:02.800,0:24:10.320
Uh, who asked that question? Jeremy, yeah.
Awesome questions. Thank you so much for that.
0:24:10.320,0:24:19.200
And the great thing is, okay, so you responded
with a different one. 'Co-editing integration,
0:24:19.200,0:24:24.720
that subpage does have what I was looking for.
Yes.' Oh, fantastic! Good, glad to hear it,
0:24:24.720,0:24:30.480
glad to hear it. Great questions from the audience
today. Thank you all for being here. Again,
0:24:30.480,0:24:34.720
this spotlight session, if you didn't catch all
the links, it was being recorded. It will be
0:24:34.720,0:24:38.240
uploaded to YouTube, so you don't have to try
to jot them all down fast. Just refer to our
0:24:38.240,0:24:47.600
YouTube in a few pages or, excuse me, in a few
days. You'll be able to see all that clearly.
0:24:47.600,0:24:53.040
Alright, closing Simple Schema. Any other
questions? Anything you would like to see
0:24:53.040,0:24:59.120
added? What resources have you used from other
technologies, other software companies, other
0:24:59.120,0:25:02.560
SaaS companies, you're like, 'Oh, I wish they
had that at Beefree.' We just don't quite have
0:25:02.560,0:25:08.080
it yet. We would love to hear from you. Make note
of that, not promising we'll turn it on next week,
0:25:08.080,0:25:11.840
but we definitely want to make note of it and
prioritize it in terms of looking at, 'Hey, out of
0:25:11.840,0:25:16.880
all the things that we're doing, what have we been
asked for from our user base, current and future?'
0:25:16.880,0:25:22.960
Those are the things we want to hear from. And
indeed, the continued evolution of our developer
0:25:22.960,0:25:27.840
advocacy program. Again, I want to work for you.
I want to be an advocate for you. So I'm going to
0:25:27.840,0:25:33.680
come up with my own videos, my own blog posts, my
own talking topics for meetups and conferences.
0:25:33.680,0:25:37.680
But when I hear from users, 'Hey, here's what I
actually need to help me onboard better. Here's
0:25:37.680,0:25:42.160
what'll make this process smoother for me and
smoother for my team.' Those are the things that
0:25:42.160,0:25:47.840
pinpoint how I can write and shape the DevRel
program. So that'll be really, really helpful.
0:25:47.840,0:25:52.240
Alright, comment from Tyson. 'Thanks for
coming in, Tyson.' Hi Tyson from Denver,
0:25:52.240,0:25:59.280
Colorado. 'PM for my company. We're on the VPC
version of Beefree. VPC version of Beefree. Are
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all updates and features added to the VPC
version?' That one I'm going to pass to
0:26:05.120,0:26:15.360
Samantha. I have not worked exclusively with
the VPC version in the last three months.
0:26:15.360,0:26:21.040
But that's a very good technical question,
nevertheless. 'VPC plan.' Alright. 'Customized
0:26:21.040,0:26:34.880
releases.' Okay, more control. So it does
have a different release cycle. Okay, gotcha.
0:26:34.880,0:26:39.360
And you're asking, 'Does all the updates
and features added to the VPC version?' I'm
0:26:39.360,0:26:45.760
going to have to follow up with that, so I'm
going to get your name down, Tyson Helmick.
0:26:45.760,0:26:49.440
Do you mind just leaving the client name that
you work with? I want to be sure I follow up
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with you because top of mind, I am not sure. I
have not worked exclusively with VPC as of yet.
0:27:01.920,0:27:08.400
Boop. Awesome.
0:27:08.400,0:27:13.360
Intapp. Awesome, got it. Thank you so much.
You will hear back from me or one—someone on
0:27:13.360,0:27:20.800
our team within the week, hopefully me. Awesome
sauce! Alrighty, Jeremy comes with another great
0:27:20.800,0:27:24.960
question. 'I'm looking in the API docs. Awesome. I
think it would make sense from the perspective of
0:27:24.960,0:27:31.120
a developer to see the info in that co-editing
integration guide in the API doc section since
0:27:31.120,0:27:36.560
it's documenting endpoints for managing co-edit
sessions.' I got to read that again. I think what
0:27:36.560,0:27:40.160
you're saying makes sense, but let me read it
one more time. So, 'I'm looking at the API doc
0:27:40.160,0:27:45.280
session. Got it. I think it would make sense from
the perspective of a developer to see the info in
0:27:45.280,0:27:51.920
the co-editing integration guide in the API doc
section.' Okay, yes. 'Since it's documenting
0:27:51.920,0:27:55.680
endpoints for managing co-edit sessions.'
That's—that's logical. That's logical. I don't
0:27:55.680,0:28:03.760
know if there was a reason it wasn't included, but
I would dig into that. That's quite logical to me.
0:28:03.760,0:28:08.240
Samantha, give me some additional information
for Tyson. Thank you so much for that. Folks,
0:28:08.240,0:28:12.320
we're in our last two minutes. I'm
bringing back to the link I posted
0:28:12.320,0:28:19.520
in that comment. Yes, you're good. I
got you, Jeremy. I got you. All good.
0:28:19.520,0:28:23.040
Last two minutes. What would you like to see?
Hey, here's a question. First, let me ask a direct
0:28:23.040,0:28:30.320
question. Shortly before I started, we had a
forum. A forum, it was where the developers came,
0:28:30.320,0:28:35.120
like I like to say, and nerded out. It was our
playground. The engagement was a little low,
0:28:35.120,0:28:38.720
right? There were some people who were engaging,
but not many. And there was an executive decision
0:28:38.720,0:28:44.160
made to close that down. And so right now, the
main forum would be the X account. How many of
0:28:44.160,0:28:50.800
you who are here are interested in a forum of
some type outside of X/Twitter? Be it a Discord,
0:28:50.800,0:28:55.360
a Slack, a Discourse, or some other format. Is
there any interest there? Or any other way that
0:28:55.360,0:29:00.480
you like to engage with fellow developers
who are working in an ecosystem? I would
0:29:00.480,0:29:06.480
love to hear from you, or are you good
as is? That's valuable feedback as well.
0:29:19.280,0:29:26.800
Just see one person typing.
0:29:26.800,0:29:31.120
Ryan Hagen, I got your message. Thank you so much.
0:29:33.120,0:29:37.600
The notification from the moderator side is
a tiny, tiny red dot. I've been overlooking
0:29:37.600,0:29:45.920
that for I don't know how long now, but
I do see your message. Thank you so much.
0:29:45.920,0:29:51.120
'Don't use extra social media.' I don't blame you.
'So Slack or a forum would be preferable to me.
0:29:51.120,0:29:54.800
It remains to be seen how much I would actually
interact with that, though.' Hey, honest answer,
0:29:54.800,0:30:00.320
I appreciate that. And again, perhaps closing that
down made sense. People are getting what they need
0:30:00.320,0:30:04.400
either through documentation, through GitHub
repos, or other sources. So if that's the case,
0:30:04.400,0:30:08.320
that is perfectly fine. I just wanted
to check because I tend to spend way too
0:30:08.320,0:30:14.880
much time online in Slacks and Discords for every
conceivable thing: for cloud, for React, for Java,
0:30:14.880,0:30:20.480
for you name it, I'm in some Discord or Slack.
And so if that was an interest from our community,
0:30:20.480,0:30:24.080
our Beefree SDK community, I definitely
wanted to hear that. And if not, we will
0:30:24.080,0:30:30.240
keep it as my mother would say, we're going to
keep it trucking. I have 11:30 Central time,
0:30:30.240,0:30:34.560
folks. So I see one more person typing.
I think it might have been Joshua,
0:30:34.560,0:30:38.000
so I'm going to allow for that, and then we're
going to go ahead and wrap up for the day. Thank
0:30:38.000,0:30:43.360
you so much for all the interaction, the great
questions and feedback from Tyson. Thank you,
0:30:43.360,0:30:47.840
Sam. 'Yes, sign up for the updates and use
our Slack channel extensively. Dev team
0:30:47.840,0:30:51.280
works a lot with Lorenzo.' Awesome. 'Just
wanted to know if you develop and release
0:30:51.280,0:30:56.880
features for the VPC in addition to your
core offering.' Awesome, awesome, awesome.
0:30:58.960,0:31:04.160
Alright, well, I don't see anyone else typing.
Joshua, 'I also think it depends on the developer
0:31:04.160,0:31:09.120
audience. I like the docs and communicating
directly.' That makes sense. Thanks a lot, man,
0:31:09.120,0:31:14.560
appreciate that. Folks, thank you for coming
to the session today, whether you're live
0:31:14.560,0:31:17.840
or you're seeing us later on YouTube. Again,
my name is Lawrence Lockhart. I'm the Senior
0:31:17.840,0:31:22.400
Developer Advocate, and I am happy to interact
with you via whatever means that you like,
0:31:22.400,0:31:26.480
whether it's LinkedIn or social media. Uh, talk
about what's going well and what you'd like to
0:31:26.480,0:31:30.800
see better. And hey, if we want to have some
special webinars, tell me about it. If you want
0:31:30.800,0:31:34.720
to have maybe a sponsor a meetup in your town,
there's a ton of email developers where you live,
0:31:34.720,0:31:38.160
for whatever reason, can we have an email
meetup group? Let's talk about that kind
0:31:38.160,0:31:42.480
of thing. I'll flow out to you, have us a
great time. So until then, you all keep on
0:31:42.480,0:31:47.113
producing those beautiful emails with Beefree
SDK and tell a friend about us. Thanks a lot!
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