The Courier Blog

Twitch Notifications (Part One): How to Handle Real-Time Events from Twitch

This series will show you how to use Twitch EventSub and Courier to automatically send notifications to many destinations – Discord, Slack, Facebook Messenger, and more – when your Twitch stream goes live.

How to Set Up Your Apple Silicon Mac for Development (M1, M2, M3 Guide)

Setting up a dev environment on an Apple Silicon Mac can be tricky. When I joined Courier, I had to get my M1 MacBook Pro ready for development fast. In this guide, I’ll show you how to use Rosetta 2, install essential CLI tools like nvm and Homebrew, and find native apps for M1, M2, and M3 Macs—so you can skip the trial and error.

Notify Discourse users about your livestream with Twitch EventSub and Courier

On January 6, Riley Napier joined me for our first Courier Live of the new year. They walk through triggering a Courier notification that updates a banner on Discourse when a Twitch stream goes live using EventSub webhooks.

Building the Ultimate Notifications Stack with Twilio, Segment, and Courier

Together Courier, Segment, and Twilio make it possible to reach users across every communication channel without the monumental work of building your own notifications infrastructure. The result: a more powerful way to drive meaningful user engagement.

Building a No-Code Secret Santa App using Courier, Typeform, and Integromat

For the Courier Live on December 2nd, I teamed up with Nicolas Grenié, Developer Advocate at Typeform, to have some more #NoCode fun. This time, we learned how to use Courier and Typeform with Integromat, a no-code automation platform.

How to White Label Email Notifications for Multiple Brands

If you've ever had to whitelabel emails manually, you know how much of a headache that can be. Here's how you can use Brands in Courier to quickly and easily whitelabel emails to match your customers' brands or your own sub-brands.

Inside Twilio’s Journey From a Single Voice API to a Multi-Channel Communications Giant, with former VP of Product Patrick Malatack

Today Twilio powers billions of interactions across voice, text, chat, and more. We sat down with Patrick Malatack, former VP of Product, to discuss Twilio's journey from a single voice API to the leading multi-channel communications platform.

Supercharging Webhooks

For the week of November 9th, we did something a little different. I teamed up with Shyamal Ruparel, Developer Evangelist at Contentful to build an application that used Courier and Contentful during our respective live streams. We started on the ContentfulDevs stream on November 10th and finished the next day on the Courier Live stream.

How to Send Emails with Attachments Using Amazon SES and S3

In this tutorial, you'll get a step-by-step walkthrough of how to add attachments to your transactional emails using Amazon SES and S3. We'll also show you how to integrate your email provider with Courier to manage your email templates and delivery.