[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Examples of email-first projects or startups?
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Ask HN: Examples of email-first projects or startups?
By _email-first_ I mean services that the email is the principal
(or only) interface between the service and the user. For example:
Posterous before Spaces. Thanks.
Author : victop
Score : 24 points
Date : 2021-08-04 12:30 UTC (10 hours ago)
| Alex3917 wrote:
| It depends what you mean by email. For example, FWD:Everyone
| (fwdeveryone.com) allows using the Gmail add-on as the only
| interface between the user and service. So the user can stay
| entirely within their inbox, but they aren't interacting with the
| service by sending or forwarding an email.
| victop wrote:
| Thanks. By email I mean send to an email address, and something
| happens. FWD:Everyone is more a add-on to a tool (that happens
| to send/receive emails) than an email-as-interface service.
| refulgentis wrote:
| Substack
| [deleted]
| dkobia wrote:
| Surprised no one has mentioned Morning Brew:
| https://www.morningbrew.com/daily
| mrjivraj wrote:
| Newsletters like Substack?
| VintageLight wrote:
| https://scottscheapflights.com/
| cruano wrote:
| http://ohlife.com was a YC-backed [1] personal journal you
| maintained by replying to emails, which is super cool IMO.
|
| Although I always thought maybe whatsapp would be a better fit
| for an interface, so I started building Diarist [2] for a Twilio
| hackathon. Never finished it though.
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| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1613137
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| [2] https://github.com/caruano95/diarist
| snarkypixel wrote:
| I think producthunt started as an email mailing list
| VintageLight wrote:
| https://deathtothestockphoto.com/
| instb3at wrote:
| I have built a service for storing email attachments to cloud.
| https://mailboxfiler.com
| mindhash wrote:
| Producthunt App sumo
|
| Appcues started with a course
| mgkimsal wrote:
| I don't have these any more, but... ~20 years ago I had a
| 'searchbyemail.com' and 'recipesbyemail.com' service.
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| SBE would take a term, search/scrape google/yahoo/altavista and
| return the name/link in an email.
|
| RecipesByEmail was... recipes by email - put 'chicken casserole'
| in the subject, and we'd send back links to chicken recipes (I
| think later, I had it send back 2-3 recipes scraped from some
| open recipe sites).
|
| They never got huge traction, but I remember getting more than a
| few 'thank you' emails from blind folks. One specifically came
| from someone who worked in a school for the blind, and he wrote
| that the search thing was very handy for some students.
| arbuge wrote:
| https://publicemails.com
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| I believe AngelList also started out an email list originally
| (hence the name).
| rikkipitt wrote:
| https://www.paced.email is a service I built to buffer users from
| email. It aggregates multiple inbound emails into single messages
| based on a desired cadence. There's a dashboard, but after
| signing up, there's no real need to sign in as I designed the
| system to generate aliases on the fly using an easy to remember
| format.
|
| E.g.
|
| - johndoe@daily.paced.email
|
| - johndoe.hackernews@weekly.paced.email
|
| - johndoe.github@monthly.paced.email
|
| - Or xyz@example.com if you bring your own domain.
|
| The UI came about after being requested so much, but the original
| interface still stands.
| victop wrote:
| Awesome. Thanks for sharing.
| seph-reed wrote:
| Oh rad. I was just chatting with a friend about how tired we
| were of having no control over which inboxes gmail has, and
| what goes into them. This looks like a big step in the right
| direction.
| blairbeckwith wrote:
| I am sure OP's service is great, and not to distract from it,
| but you may also enjoy Sanebox, which has been unsexily
| solving this exact problem for ages
| tsthename wrote:
| Pretty cool service. If in an existing account, at say github,I
| was using my personal email, would I have to update my primary
| email to the one from paced?
| rikkipitt wrote:
| Not necessarily! Some users have been creating forwarders in
| their primary email provider into Paced Email. See this
| article on the subject with respect to Gmail:
| https://www.paced.email/articles/how-to-auto-forward-
| specifi...
| tsthename wrote:
| Awesome, thanks for the link.
|
| So I signed up for the free tier. There's an option to
| compose mail that's paylocked. Do I need my own domain for
| that? If not, i.e if I'm using paced for outbound mail, how
| are you currently managing reputation management?
| rikkipitt wrote:
| Thanks for jumping in. Composing is currently a paid
| feature, correct. You don't need a custom domain to
| activate it though, it also works with the in-house
| paced.email based email addresses.
|
| Our underlying email provider is Mailgun and they handle
| the reputation. So far so good though, all seems to be
| working as intended a year and a half after launch.
|
| Get in touch via the site if you want to chat more, happy
| to help if you have any questions etc.
| abnercoimbre wrote:
| The landing page says it's $59/year for premium functionality,
| but the actual pricing page says it's $90/year (which violated
| my expectations as a customer, unless I misunderstand what's
| happening.)
| jareklupinski wrote:
| http://www.watchdog.email/
| victop wrote:
| Another example: followupthen.com
| [deleted]
| ddmichael wrote:
| Jack's Flight Club: jack@jacksflightclub.co.uk
| grejdi wrote:
| I've been building Emailic for the last few months.
| https://emailic.com
|
| You can use it to drive automation in external apps, without
| having to leave your inbox. Zapier and other no-code solutions
| have such integrations, but they are expensive and require access
| to all your emails. This was something I was not willing to give
| up, for privacy reasons.
|
| I've currently completed a Webhook
| (https://emailic.com/apps/webhook/) and Upload to Dropbox
| (https://emailic.com/apps/dropbox_upload/) integration. Check it
| out, and let me know what you all think! (Email address is in my
| profile.)
| bberenberg wrote:
| FYI for something like https://emailic.com/apps/analytics/, I
| would love to see a demo of what it does.
| grejdi wrote:
| Working on a couple of demos. Here is a sample of the monthly
| email the system sends out to one of my demo accounts: https:
| //www.dropbox.com/s/oahcy4264byz9zr/Screen%20Shot%2020...
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