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Show HN: Searchmyemail.com, a tool for “bosses” and their “assistants”(searchmyemail.com)
4 points by ajaygoel 7y ago|0 comments
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
The user logs into his Gmail account on his own and uses the GMass extension, which operates within the Gmail UI, to create/schedule campaigns. On the back-end, GMass connects to the user's account over standard Google OAuth 2 to
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
Looks like someone has a lot of free time on his hands. I've received 4 emails I didn't sign up for in the last couple minutes. https://www.dropbox.com/s/j8e0qpvnzn23opg/Screenshot%202019-...
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
No it's not all client side. Just the interaction with the UI is client-side. All the heavy lifting is server-side.
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
Let me clarify. GMass doesn't send any email, but we do have to transmit the email to someone that does send it, hence the bandwidth costs.
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
My reaction was simply validating that sending from-gmail to-gmail has high open/conversion rates, as the poster stated. However, you can only do this with a limited number of emails (500/day for Gmail or 2,000/day for G Suit
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
ajay AT wordzen DOT com
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
Are you saying you've never received any benefit from an email you received that was part of a campaign? Like a discount to your favorite store? Not all uses are commercial, either. We have teachers who use it to communicate with all t
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
Technically CAN-SPAM does not require an unsubscribe link. It requires providing instructions to be removed. That could be using the text, "reply back with the word 'unsubscribe'". We put the burden of legal compliance o
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
You are correct. :)
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
The text you're quoting has to do with how we distribute volume, NOT how we enable spammers. High volume campaigns does not equate to spamming. You can send a 10-email campaign that IS spam and a 10,000-email campaign that is NOT spam.
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
Just FYI, I didn't come up with the title for the interview. The editors at IH did.
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
I absolutely did not create the JamesIH account. I have no idea who that is. From the "IH" part of it, I'm guessing someone that has something to do with Indie Hackers.
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
You're confusing a couple of issues. It's not that we're looking the other way. It's that I wanted to design a system where we don't have to look at all. GMass doesn't actually send any emails through its own s
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
Agreed. I was arrogant in some of my blog post comments. I've changed my tune since then. For me, gaining confidence in my product and gaining traction turned me into a more customer-service friendly person.
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
Cancellation is instant and doesn't require an email being sent. You'll see that in the post. You may be right. A better solution might be to build an external UI for account management, but I've shied away from that, wanting
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
I could query my system and get numbers. My comments are based on the number of times I've heard a user say "Google shut down my account." It's maybe once a month. And then when I look at what they were sending, it'
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
Hi Omar! I'm eternally grateful to you, Chris, Aleem, and the entire InboxSDK team.
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
Open/click tracking doesn't add much in terms of cost. That traffic is minor. The bulk of the traffic is the transmission of the emails.
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
Here's January's bill: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wt2qofjla2lnsg7/Screenshot%202019-...
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
It's not something I'm proud of, but I'm not embarrassed by it either. The upset commenters are the minority of our users. Some parts of our UI are a little difficult -- most commands have to be done via the Gmail Compose wi
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
It does happen, but it's rare. You have to be a true spammer or phisher to get shut down, and we've found that Google is a lot more lenient with G Suite accounts than regular gmail.com accounts.
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
Right, I do have moderate-to-severe apnea, which is why I use the machine. But still, going from 10-11 hours/night to 5-6 and feeling great has been a big productivity booster.
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
All the extension does is provide a conduit between the Gmail UI and the Gmail API, really. Google's systems for detecting spammers are pretty good, so they're more likely to shut down a spamming account rather than my extension.
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by ajaygoel 8y ago
Hey everyone - someone just alerted me to this post. I'm Ajay, the person interviewed in that article. Let me go through now and respond to people's comments.
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by ajaygoel 9y ago
Hi everyone - since Dropbox is deprecating its Photos/Albums feature tomorrow, I built this! It creates a slideshow, viewable on any device, just from the URL of a shared Dropbox folder containing photos.
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Show HN: DropboxSlideshow.com – create a slideshow from a Dropbox folder(dropboxslideshow.com)
1 points by ajaygoel 9y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: EmailTest.com – free spammyness testing and email rendering(producthunt.com)
1 points by ajaygoel 9y ago|1 comments
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by ajaygoel 10y ago
I didn't violate any laws. The car is titled to my wife's mother, who is a resident of Wisconsin, and the car is kept and driven by my wife in Wisconsin. I just happen to be paying the bill and am a resident of Chicago.
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How I used my own Gmail extension to negotiate a car purchase(medium.com)
4 points by ajaygoel 10y ago|3 comments

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