https://github.com/motdotla/visage-grid
https://github.com/motdotla/visage-grid
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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/motdotla/visage-grid
- Owner: motdotla
- Created: 2013-07-03T18:42:53.000Z (over 12 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2013-08-08T21:33:29.000Z (about 12 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-14T11:02:47.787Z (12 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: http://blog.sendgrid.com/remember-peoples-names-with-an-easily-digestible-daily-email/
- Size: 379 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# visage-grid
Get an email each day of an acquaintance's face. You guess their name.
## Deploying
### Heroku
```bash
heroku create
heroku addons:add redistogo
heroku addons:add scheduler:standard
heroku addons:add sendgrid:starter
heroku config:set FULLCONTACT_KEY=yourfullcontactapikey
heroku config:set TO=your@email.com
git push heroku master
```
## Usage
Setup your SendGrid account to parse emails.
Go to [http://sendgrid.com/developer/reply](http://sendgrid.com/developer/reply).
Set your hostname as `m.yourdomain.com` and set your url as `https://yoursubdomain.herokuapp.com/emails/parse`. Save that.
[screenshot 1](https://raw.github.com/scottmotte/visage-grid/master/readme/sendgrid-inbound-1.png), [screenshot 2](https://raw.github.com/scottmotte/visage-grid/master/readme/sendgrid-inbound-2.png)
Then go to your domain's DNS dashboard and add the MX record with the hostname `m.yourdomain.com` with the value of `mx.sendgrid.net`.
[screenshot 1](https://raw.github.com/scottmotte/visage-grid/master/readme/sendgrid-mx-record.png)
Finally, setup all your emails to forward to `email@m.yourdomain.com`. You can do this in GMail by going to Settings > Forwarding & POP/IMAP and adding a forward address to `email@m.yourdomain.com`.
[screenshot 1](https://raw.github.com/scottmotte/visage-grid/master/readme/gmail-forward-1.jpg)
Lastly, setup a recurring task each morning to send you the email. Use heroku scheduler for this. Add the job to look like this:
|Task | Dyno Size | Frequency |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|node ./task.js| 1x | Daily |
[screenshot 1](https://raw.github.com/scottmotte/visage-grid/master/readme/heroku-scheduler.png)
### Optional Usage
You can also add additional emails via the web API. For example, to add using curl do the following.
```bash
curl -X POST http://yourherokusubdomain.herokuapp.com/emails -d "email=you@youremail.com"
```