Startup idea: short, paid email
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Startup idea: short, paid email
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Re: Startup idea: short, paid email
#2Something like this? https://shortmail.com/
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#3What do you do when you're trying to explain a technical issue that can't be explained in 500 chars or requires code snippets? Maybe move to a different medium? A different email address?
A codepaste might work for snippets as long as it's not sensitive. You still might need a way to explain how to reproduce a problem.
Maybe these are all just add-ons for such a service.
Re: Startup idea: short, paid email
#4Something like this? https://shortmail.com/
Yes, I wonder why it hasn't taken off. Perhaps lack of word of mouth, or the fact that it's lacking the "paid" component.
I would feel bad about telling people to email me at shortmail.com, but a VC who receives tons of unsolicited pitches wouldn't. Some would love charging a fee to get pitched over email. If it takes 30 seconds and they pay you 20 bucks, why not.
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#5Linkedin has sort of tried this w/ premium accounts. 3 InMails for $20/mo. Not sure if premium accounts are really driving their revenue as much as recruiter solutions.
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#6Oh, you want all the noreply@ receipts to just bounce and disappear?
No thanks.
Maybe the other way, though. Paying as the sender for longer messages. But I don't understand what advantage this would possibly have over the free email services.
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#7Linkedin has sort of tried this w/ premium accounts. 3 InMails for $20/mo. Not sure if premium accounts are really driving their revenue as much as recruiter solutions.
In Q2 premium generated $43M. Not the $121M that Hiring Solutions made, but still not chump change.
Re: Startup idea: short, paid email
#8What do you do when you're trying to explain a technical issue that can't be explained in 500 chars or requires code snippets? Maybe move to a different medium? A different email address? A codepaste might work for snippets as long as it's not sensitive. You still might need a way to explain how to reproduce a problem. Maybe these are all just add-ons for such a service.
I don't think he means you replace your email with this, just have this as a public email. You will still give coworkers or collaborators your regular address and they could send you long code and messages, but strangers wouldn't be able to.
And obviously if you are in a position where strangers should send you random unsolicited code or long messages you should just not use this.
Re: Startup idea: short, paid email
#9How about an app that donates the 20 bucks it costs to send someone an email to charity? Seems like it would have a built in marketing strategy.
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#10This reminds me about http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/the-morning-mail-is-my-... -- where E.B. White sends back an aggressive letter to a kid's piece of fan mail (The kid questions why he hasn't written another book, he claims that he could write another book if only he didn't receive as much fan mail).
What I'm getting at is that your current idea has more applications other than a simple VC pitch -- but expanding it to celebrity's sounds more like a Mickey Mouse Fan club subscription than email.