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Why it mattersA paid email vendor holds your deliverability history. Wraps keeps that history in a DynamoDB table you own.
Resend costs you $20 a month and holds every delivery and open event on its servers. Wraps asks what happens if the whole stack sat in your own AWS account instead. The project launched on Hacker News on 26 October with 22 points and a free tier.
Wraps is a developer email platform licensed under AGPL-3.0. One terminal command, npx @wraps.dev/cli email init, deploys Amazon SES into your AWS account. It also provisions an OIDC role, an EventBridge rule, a Lambda processor and a DynamoDB table for history. Setup takes about two minutes, per the company's own page.
What the SDK does, and what sits around it
The TypeScript SDK is a single email.send() call that goes straight to SES. Every sent, delivered, opened and clicked event lands in your DynamoDB table. The dashboard then draws on that table: broadcasts to lists, workflow automations, suppression lists and a search over every message.
Wraps also supports inbound email and templates in React. An MCP server lets a coding agent send a broadcast on a developer's behalf.
Why the AWS-pause lines matter
Amazon reviews an SES account when its bounce rate reaches 5 percent, and pauses it at 10 percent. The complaint lines are 0.1 and 0.5 percent, per Wraps citing AWS. Wraps reads the account's reputation metrics every hour and alerts the organisation's owners when a rate crosses a review line.
If a rate reaches a pause line, Wraps holds scheduled broadcasts back. It will not queue more mail behind the stop. Wraps cannot lift an AWS review itself. That is AWS's decision, the company says.
The price, as the company states it
The free plan carries unlimited sends, domains, contacts, templates and team members. It covers 1 AWS account, 2 workflows and 30-day history. Pro is $29 per month for unlimited workflows, scheduled broadcasts and 90-day history. Business is $199 per month, adds SSO, SCIM, audit log and unlimited AWS accounts.
Amazon SES is billed directly by AWS: $0.10 per 1,000 emails on the à la carte plan. Wraps states that AWS now defaults new accounts to its Essentials plan at $0.16 per 1,000. The infrastructure uses a wraps-email- prefix on every resource and never changes existing SES setup.
Repository is wraps-team/wraps on GitHub. The company lists OpenSend, useSend and MillionSend as other free SES wrappers. It says none of the three watches account metrics against AWS's pause lines. None of them runs blacklist checks either.
The reader action is specific. A team sending from Resend, Postmark or SendGrid today can swap to self-hosted SES. One command plus the $29 plan does it. The event history and the deliverability signals stay in a DynamoDB table the team owns. If the team cancels the Wraps subscription, the infrastructure keeps running in AWS and the SDK keeps sending.
Source
Wraps, the company. Show HN: Wraps – Resend-style email on your own AWS SES, open source, Hacker News. wraps-team/wraps, the repository on GitHub.
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