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Re:Email-First Startups by ThomPete on Monday February 25, 2013 @11:28AM (#5279721)
This was exactly how I started http://www.weekendhacker.net

I was manually going through mails both from project owners and helpers.

Now it's more or less automated (and about to relaunch after a period of silence) but it was good to get validation easily.This was exactly how I started http://www.weekendhacker.net

I was manually going through mails both from project owners and helpers.

Now it's more or less automated (and about to relaunch after a period of silence) but it was good to get validation easily.

Other startups that could have started as emails

AirBnB Ebay TheFancy CraigsList

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Re:Email-First Startups by jeffclark on Monday February 25, 2013 @12:56PM (#5280361)
Craigslist did start as an email.

From wikipedia: "Craig Newmark began the service in 1995 as an email distribution list of friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area, before becoming a web-based service in 1996 and expanding into other classified categories. It started expanding to other U.S. cities in 2000, and currently covers 50 countries."

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Re:Email-First Startups by ThomPete on Monday February 25, 2013 @02:44PM (#5281256)
ahh ok. There you go.
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Re:Email-First Startups by michaelbuckbee on Monday February 25, 2013 @01:12PM (#5280458)
Craigslist did start as an email list: "Craig's List"
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