Ask HN: Examples of email-first projects or startups?

Re:Ask HN: Examples of email-first projects or startups? by rikkipitt on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:44PM (#28063160)

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.

- [email protected]

- Or [email protected] if you bring your own domain.

The UI came about after being requested so much, but the original interface still stands.

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Re:Ask HN: Examples of email-first projects or startups? by abnercoimbre on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:23PM (#28067219)

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.)

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Re:Ask HN: Examples of email-first projects or startups? by rikkipitt on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:53AM (#28071343)

Apologies. The pricing is indeed $90/year or $10/month and the marketing site is wrong. However, I’m the coming weeks I’m releasing a new site/branding and more functionality which will fix this. Thanks for pointing it out!

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Re:Ask HN: Examples of email-first projects or startups? by seph-reed on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:08PM (#28063518)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Examples of email-first projects or startups? by blairbeckwith on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:57PM (#28064126)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Examples of email-first projects or startups? by tsthename on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @03:06PM (#28064902)

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?

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Re:Ask HN: Examples of email-first projects or startups? by rikkipitt on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @03:37PM (#28065254)

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...

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Re:Ask HN: Examples of email-first projects or startups? by tsthename on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @03:58PM (#28065538)

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?

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Re:Ask HN: Examples of email-first projects or startups? by rikkipitt on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @05:06PM (#28066304)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Examples of email-first projects or startups? by victop on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @02:35PM (#28064541)

Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

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