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TodayMet update: access requests now trigger email notifications
Another small but important piece of TodayMet is now live: email notifications for protected information requests. Until now, TodayMet already allowed visitors to request access to protected information on someone's profile. The profile owner could review the request and decide what to share. But there was an obvious gap: how would the owner know someone had requested access? They would have to return to TodayMet and check manually. That's not a particularly realistic expectation for a profile someone might create once and share occasionally. So I finally connected the missing piece. I configured Resend for transactional email delivery, along with a server-side cron job that retries notifications when delivery fails. Now, when someone requests access to protected items, the profile owner receives an email containing: - Who requested access - Which protected items they requested - Their accompanying message - A direct link to review the request Importantly, nothing is shared automatically. The owner still decides which information to reveal and how long access should last. This matters because selective sharing is one of TodayMet's central ideas. A public profile can introduce you to someone, but not everything belongs on the public internet. Your résumé, private contact details, documents, or other information might be appropriate for one person and not another. The request-and-approval flow makes that possible. Email notifications make it practical without requiring people to keep checking the app. There's also a small engineering lesson here. Sending an email is easy. Making sure a notification isn't simply lost when something temporarily fails requires a little more thought. Hence the retry mechanism. Nothing particularly sophisticated, just a boring piece of reliability infrastructure that belongs in the workflow. I'm increasingly finding that building TodayMet isn't about adding more impressive features. It's about making the existing interactions complete enough that someone can actually rely on them. A visitor requests access → the owner gets notified → reviews the request → decides what to share. One more loop closed. Still early, still small numbers, and still plenty to learn from real users. But TodayMet is gradually becoming less of a collection of capabilities and more of a product that works end to end. https://todaymet.com
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