After seeing the the success of cameo.com, I think this could be a good way to get in touch with hard-to-reach influencers/celebrities/etc - might be a good way to send pitches to to high value contacts as well.
Show HN: InboxFee – make strangers pay for their cold emails
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Re: Show HN: InboxFee – make strangers pay for their cold emails
#12This seems to be yet another variation of the classic, mistaken belief that "your attention is so important that strangers will pay money to send you mail" [0].
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Re: Show HN: InboxFee – make strangers pay for their cold emails
#13This seems to be yet another variation of the classic, mistaken belief that "your attention is so important that strangers will pay money to send you mail" [0]. --- [0]: https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html
It definitely is a variation of that belief. Could you elaborate on why it is mistaken?
I think: 1. Whether something is valuable can only be discovered if you try to set a price and sell it. Until then, you can not know. 2. LinkedIn has big part of it's business selling 'InMail' at around 2$ per piece. So clearly some people's attention is so important that strangers do pay money to send them mail.
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#15This seems to be yet another variation of the classic, mistaken belief that "your attention is so important that strangers will pay money to send you mail" [0]. --- [0]: https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html
It's not a mistaken belief. People have been paying forever for meet and greets, intros, and connections--ultimately it's just an expected value evaluation. There are plenty of celebrities and icons that will make a lot of money off of tools like this. Just look at the success of Cameo. A requirement for such a startup to be successful might be that they require the celebrity to open the email and respond, in order that the customer feels their message has gotten through, but I bet there are celebrities with so much clout that they could probably make money for doing less.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is, would you try it?
Best way to try?
I guess it's at https://inboxfee.com or in Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inboxfee.a...