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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
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spotlight sessions are available in playlists.
You see a playlist for SDK sessions right there,
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and a ton of other quick hit. Most of these
are 10 minutes or less, specific feature and
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specific problems. We like to think about problems
and solutions. So you can probably search for
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different problems you're having. Many of them you
might even find a YouTube video to correspond to
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it. So definitely check out our Beefree YouTube
channel at your convenience. Time is flying,
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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
0:16:22.960,0:16:27.200
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
0:25:59.280,0:26:05.120
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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