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Products that do what Normail – un-fancy email with cal, contacts, and Nextcloud $50/year does
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2015 · gilded.club
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Back in 2010 I had an idea for a service that would allow people to easily create semi-permanent email aliases so that they could give an email address to people and websites without revealing their real email address. These aliases will continue to work indefinitely unless you choose to block them. My brother and I spent a few months building the initial version and launched the website in July 2010. For the first year we had about 50 signups per month, by 2013 this had increased to 1500 and it's currently around 3500 per month. Similarly, our revenue grew consistently but slowly - doubling…
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2020 · github.com
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2016 · fetch.amplemarket.com
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2017 · veropost.com
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2014 · protonmail.ch
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2014 · leanscribe.com
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2014 · blog.unbabel.com
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Spent the last month building Fertit - basically a newsletter manager but you bring your own SMTP and skip the DevOps nightmare. All the features (subscriber management, admin dashboard, custom preferences) without the infrastructure markup. The math that broke me: Mailchimp: $230/month for 15k contacts My solution: $10/month infrastructure + $10 SendGrid = unlimited What I learned: The "enterprise" features are mostly database operations with SMTP APIs. But the 3 weeks of Go/PostgreSQL/Redis setup explains why people just pay ConvertKit $300/month. Here's the thing:…
2025 · fertit.com
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2012 · beta.thread.is
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2015 · wrte.io
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2012 · chrome.google.com
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2020 · paced.email
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2020 · inboxfee.com
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