Show HN: Inbox Pirates, a way to preview, test and analyze your emails (inboxpirates.com)
When I was building Crewcharge, an email marketing tool - I needed to build a feature to show a preview of how the email looks. I was searching for inspiration and realised most email preview tools only showed you the email in full screen when it's opened as if all emails get opened.
While this happened, my friend who is a digital marketer sent an email to himself and grabbed 3 phones around the house. When I asked why, he replied that most people don't even open the emails and read it from the notification bars.
Another friend missed a job interview because he swiped on the notification thinking it was a promotion.
After a survey it was clear than more 75% of the people do the same and that most email marketing or email outreach tools are optimizing for wrong placements.
I built this as a chrome extension so it would be open to existing email marketing and email outreach tools in the market. It currently integrates with Google Workspace, Hubspot, Apollo io, Snov io, Mailchimp, Sendinblue, Google Sheets / Notion / Airtable.
The way it works is it parses the dom for the email text (or HTML), subject line, Sender name and creates the previews in a new tab where you can explore how the email looks on Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, Androids, iPhones.
Future integrations in pipeline include Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Instantly, Lemlist, Outreach io.
Launched on Producthunt reaching #1 product of the day and reached around 450 users, a lot of us discover us on Google when they search for email preview or email testing tools.
The vision of inboxpirates is to also give you a good email score to get higher response and open rates, using NLP and the core version is very basic with some bugs.
Bootstrapped solo-founder here with a production version, sorry in advance for some of the bugs against specific email clients!
I've spent around 5 months building and marketing this tool alone, but I wanted to really see if people cared enough about this problem.
Appreciate all thoughts and feedback. For anything else, mail me at inboxpirates[at]gmail.com
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 46.1 ms ] threadWhat OP built is actually pretty cool. I would suggest removing these posts of almost-certainly fake reviews - and letting it stand on its own.
edit: they are actively deleting accounts and the "Ben" profiles now that I have called this out. Honesty is the best policy.
Just because two people are from India, doesn't mean it has to be a fake review. Please do proper research before you comment.
I am not going to put the work into "doxxing", an action I find distasteful, but you have literally just inadvertently admitted to at least one of the things that I was claiming.
edit: they are actively deleting accounts and profiles now that I have called this out.
I publicly shared the link on my facebook wall and he had commented on his own.
When I first saw the comment I too thought it was someone else, before I saw his HN username.
I'm a regular user of InboxPirates and sharing my review here. You can see my previous submission and GitHub Profile.
My username has been @goforbg everywhere on the internet including the domain name.
I really don't know what else to show you. All I have to say is this, I created this tool. I wanted to launch it on HN. I posted the link of the hn thread on my facebook, twitter and whatsapp status.
I did NOT ask him to come comment here.
MC naveen actually did try out the product during the producthunt launch and had given me some valid feedback and bug fixes, so I think that's why he commented here.
If you think we're the same person or that I made him comment or it's a couple of fake profiles I have nothing else to show you except the products we've built online and our github contributions.
I'm going to stop replying beyond this because I feel it's insulting me and making me feel bad for something I did not do.
https://goforbg.com https://linkedin.com/in/goforbg https://twitter.com/goforbg https://github.com/goforbg
Here's that of MC Naveen
https://mcnaveen.com/ https://github.com/mcnaveen https://twitter.com/the_mcnaveen https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcnaveen/
You are literally admitting that someone is posting, presumably, with someone else's face on the internet.
edit: they are actively deleting accounts and profiles now that I have called this out.
> If you're referring to lastest submission of mine. I was searching for his submission because it was inspiring. I have never ever claimed myself as anyone.