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Could you elaborate?
They are suggesting to add a footer to outbound emails that says something like “My privacy was preserved when sending this email by 33Mail. Sign up to 33Mail for free to hide your email address and stop spam”
Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cool, thanks I signed up and set up a custom domain so hopefully I won't get caught by the disposable email blacklist that other commenters were talking about. the only other issue I'm seeing is that the website isn't really great on mobile, my wife mostly does stuff on her phone (despite us having like 10 computers lol) and that might be a small barrier, though after sending a test email I see that it can be managed…
Thank you. Yes, making the site mobile friendly is high on our todo list. However, you are correct that most of our users rarely need to login to our website after initial sign up.
I guess the same kinda applies to pro, you actually have 6 usernames but only 5 domains...
Thanks
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#213Similar idea as far as I can see, with addresses that may or may not transparently drop signed-up emails after a while.
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#215I pay for it, and I have a custom domain (several maybe?) and use that in addition to the default free @___.33mail.com subdomain.
People often ask me about my custom domain and ask how they can do the same thing for themselves.
I explain it, and they are interested, but they never do it.
I think there's too much friction for non-technical people. Most people in my life have never registered a domain before. They don't know what an MX record is. Even for someone technical, it takes some effort.
If there was an onboarding flow for that paid plan that looked like: "make it easy for someone who has never registered a domain to get a custom domain set up with 33mail" I think that would be huge.
That experience might look like:
1. Hello, user! Please pick a domain! ____
2. Tell me where to forward all your emails: ____
3. Enter your credit card number: ____
4. Click "save"
Tada! Now anythingatall@thatdomaintheyjustregistered.com
forwards to their email address!
Then you register the domain for them. You're either a registrar or you work with a registrar. You control the DNS for them (or maybe it gets added to your 33mail dashboard so they can add A records or whatever).I love your service. I want it to make 80k/mo. Y'all have provided me a lot of happiness. And I've been pleasantly surprised when I've gotten support email responses from y'all.
Please keep up the great work.
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#216I'm an early user of your service, and I love it. The only problem I have is it's too cheap! I paid almost nothing for it years ago ($12?) I'm worried about relying to heavily on a service that might go out of business any day. Can you convert to a SaaS and let happy users like me support you.
What exactly does SaaS mean to you? Sounds like nothing but a buzzword to me. The website in question is already software and a service.
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#217It allows anyone to create a contact link / form which can be used on personal sites, forums, Reddit, Twitter, etc.
It doesn't make as much money as yours, but I'm happy with it :)