@Mailpipe_dev · X

AI-native email with human oversight

@theloadletter · X

u/Bholenaught · Reddit

Took us about 4 failed ideas and over 18 months.We made an email marketing platform. Alternative to Mailchimp, beehiv, kit, Klaviyo. It's called Bluey Email. Took us about 4 failed ideas and over 18 months; we started with a personalized AI chatbot. This was the beginning of the ChatGPT era, and we thought we could help people train the AI to reflect the behavior of loved ones they had lost. It was a Black Mirror kinda idea, and my therapist friends said it's not okay, so we ditched it. T

felixdoerp · HN

Hi HN, The one thing AI reliably does is generate noise. Half the tools I see launch are just machines for producing more noise across more channels. And people are starting to see this in the form of emails in their inboxes as spam filters are struggling. There used to be a useful signal in email: the effort a sender put into customizing a message was a rough proxy for how relevant it actually was. AI killed that. Now it's customized slop with the appearance of effort with none of the cost. It is painful that the open internet / open channels have been abused like this. Captchainbox applies the idea of proof-of-work to email. If a sender is willing to do a bit of work to reach you, the message is more likely to be worth your time and the sender more likely to be real. The work is a traditional captcha. You can also set a pay-to-deliver amount if you want more friction. The proceeds of the delivery payment after transaction costs go to the Internet Archive and the EFF. The tool curr

@CodewithDivine · X

check this out

@raeezatameez · X

dropping mine - would love your take!

@Mailneoco · X

- an email marketing platform.