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Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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”

The more I think about this, the less I like it. the whole point of 33mail is to hide your email address, if you're sending out emails that say "hey this isn't even my real email address, gotcha!" that may not go over well.

Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue

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post #110

Earlier 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.

Hey so I had one more question, I noticed that the premium account gets you one more username but you're still stuck with only 1 custom domain... wouldn't it make sense to get 2 domains to match the number of usernames?

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

#213
Hello! I always appreciate creative ways to mitigate spam. One question though, how would you see this as different from spamgourmet.com?

Similar idea as far as I can see, with addresses that may or may not transparently drop signed-up emails after a while.

Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue

#215
i love 33mail. I've been a user for years and I think it's amazing.

I 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.

Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue

#216

I'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.

Thanks for asking! I’d also like to know how the emperor’s new clothes look like because I sure as hell can’t see them. Let’s all hope he actually meant an API behind a paywall.
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