Email First Startups

Indoctrinator: http://indoctrinator.com is my first email startup. It's a weekly program that reveals the secrets to becoming obsessed over anything you want.

Anyone whose been obsessed before knows how it can accelerate learning and mastery of skills.

I thought email would be the ideal platform for Indoctrinator because I can roll it out in phases and give more personalized service.

EDIT: I invite anyone who reads this and is interested in the program to sign up for more info and early notification of launch.

Thanks for your interest. I'll add a link.

The startup is called Gliph. Gliph is a digital identity platform. Our goal is to allow people to communicate and transact with privacy and security.

https://gli.ph

https://gli.ph/s/privacy.html

Today, you can use Gliph to send text and picture messages with other Gliph users. It has a few benefits over other messaging tools:

- The messaging system is hosted, so you can access your account from either the iPhone, Android or Mobile web.

- Either party can delete messages from both sides of the conversation, delay messages, and set expiration on messages.

- The system allows you to be anonymous, we don't require entry of any personal data such as a phone number used by other messaging clients.

Gliph's Email privacy tool is called Cloaked Email. We debuted it in August of this past year. You can use a Cloaked Email address as substitute for your real one while signing up for websites. Cloaked Email:

- Helps protect you from data breaches.

- Allows you to communicate with sellers on sites like Craigslist using your normal email client, without revealing your actual address.

- Has Chrome and Firefox plugins to easily integrate email privacy into your web experience.

Some other points about Gliph and privacy:

- We don't log IPs except for rate throttling.

- We encrypt all personal data entered and set sharing to private by default. When you share data with another user, it is encrypted using public keys of both users.

- You can turn on a feature called Lockdown Privacy Protection, which removes password reset and makes your account data inaccessible by anyone without the password.

- We have a generous privacy policy that puts ownership of user data in user hands.

We launched in March of last year, and have an iPhone, Android and mobile web clients.

I'd be pleased to connect with you on Gliph. You can find me at Dice, Heart, Lightning.

Here are some more links:

iPhone app: https://gli.ph/iphone

Android App: https://gli.ph/android

mobile web: https://gli.ph/m

Company Blog: http://blog.gli.ph

Beeminder started this way too (it was Kibotzer -- the kibitzing bot [http://blog.beeminder.com/beenamer] -- back then). Bot emails you asking for your number (eg, your weight) and sends you back a graph of your progress.

This is an interesting approach. It's also a great way to build audience way before your real product launch.

I wish I know this before launching my latest startup, http://www.bucketlistly.com.

I always thought that you need a product first in order to build audience. Boy, how I was wrong and wasted countless days just to learn that you can build audience even without a product. :/

Thanks for sharing it here.

Funny, I was just looking at Haraka earlier today to build an email-first startup. Being an active Node.js dev, Haraka looks very attractive!