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Show HN: EmailMagnet – A dead-simple Chrome extension
Hey HN! I built EmailMagnet because I was spending too much time manually copying emails from websites. It's intentionally simple: it runs in the background while you browse and automatically collects email addresses, with zero configuration needed.
Core functionality:
Silently collects emails as you browse (no clicking, no setup)
- One-click export to CSV/TXT
- Basic deduplication to keep your list clean
That's it! No bloat, no complexity
Here's the thing: I believe in "do one thing well" principle. EmailMagnet doesn't try to be your full-featured CRM or email marketing suite - it just finds emails really well while staying out of your way.
Why I'm sharing this:
It's my first product launch and I'd love your feedback
I want to make it better and I know HN is the perfect place to get brutally honest suggestions
I'm genuinely curious if others find this simple approach valuable
The backstory: I tried several email finding tools but they were all either too complex in UI, too expensive or required too many clicks... I wanted something that just works in the background while I do my normal research.
Would love your thoughts on:
- Is this simple approach actually useful?
- What critical features am I missing?
- How would you improve it without making it bloated?
- Any suggestions for better email pattern matching?
Try it: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/emailmagnet-email-extract/gnlnbefnecaoocmamafbnefjepbeppli https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/emailmagnet-email-e...
Current pricing: €4/week, €8/month or €48/year (50% off)
I know this is a simple tool but sometimes simple is exactly what we need. Looking forward to your feedback!!
- KomoD 2y ago> Current pricing: €4/week, €8/month or €48/year (50% off) That is a lot of money for what is basically a regex being run against a HTML document
- snighedis 2y agoI have looked at competitors (other extensions that do email scraping) and offered lower prices. What do you think might be a fair price for such a tool?
- gus_massa 2y agoDoes it store also the webpage and other info about the email?
- snighedis 2y agoCurrently it only stores {email, sourceUrl} pairs in a simple object. I deliberately kept the data model minimal both for privacy and performance reasons - the less we store, the faster it runs in the background. While it'd be technically trivial to scrape more context (DOM path, surrounding text, meta tags), I'm trying to follow the Unix philosophy of 'do one thing well' and the principle of data minimization. But I'm curious about your use case... what specific data points would be worth the privacy/performance trade-off in your opinion?
- gus_massa 2y agoWithout the name and position of the person, it's very difficult to send personalized emails with relevant information.