Opensend

The open-source Opensend application with built-in Amazon SES setup.

Website: opensend.cc

Status

Authentication, teams, SSO and OAuth use Convex. Installation onboarding and domains now use persistent Convex state and AWS SES. Other dashboard features still use the demo store while their backend milestones are implemented.

The marketing website is maintained separately in the private PanaraStudios/opensend-website repository. Its pages, sponsor checkout, Stripe webhook, R2 logo storage, waitlist, and analytics are not part of this app. UI components and styles are local copies; neither repository imports from the other.

Install on a server

With Docker and Docker Compose installed:

curl -fsSL https://opensend.cc/install.sh | sh

The installer downloads prebuilt images and configures the three public hostnames. Use --convex cloud to run with Convex Cloud instead of a local backend. See self-hosting for flags, upgrades and source installation.

Develop

Requires Node.js 22 and pnpm 11.7.0.

pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
pnpm dev

Open http://localhost:3000. / redirects to /emails. Sign up for the first account, verify using the backend logs, and log in to start the setup wizard. App pages are excluded from indexing.

pnpm lint
pnpm typecheck
pnpm test
pnpm build

See SES onboarding.

Deployment boundary

Deploy the app and marketing website from their own repositories and environment variables. The marketing deployment owns opensend.cc; an app deployment needs a separate domain. Before deploying this app in place of the former combined site, switch the marketing host to the private website repository and configure its Stripe, R2, Cocomail, and DataFast environment variables there.

License

Opensend and the SES delivery engine are licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Copyright 2026 Panara Studios. Self-hosting Convex uses Convex's own backend license; see the SES runbook.

Operator

Opensend is a product of Panara Studios. Questions: [email protected]

Self-hosted authentication

Run pnpm setup to start the Docker stack. See self-hosting for setup, account verification, OIDC, backups, and recovery.

Anonymous usage statistics are on by default, with an installation admin switch and a server environment override. See anonymous usage statistics for the exact payload and how to turn sharing off.