I built this to solve a specific problem. Ordinary people cannot cold email someone that is "out of their league". My vision is to have someone like Angelina Jolie responding to emails for a $200 donation to Unicef for example. How to actually make it happen is another subject but the implementation is here :) Bitcoin currently solves complexity, I hope to expand it to fiat soon.
P.S I get questions about 21.co, my site was up on September 2016...
- How many people want to send $200 emails?
- How many celebs (or even mildly internet-famous people) want to manage yet another communications channel?
- Does this disincentivize communication on other channels? If so, what are the ramifications of that?
I suppose these questions fit under "how to make it happen," but I'm curious. Good job and good luck!
Excellent point.
If you did decide you wanted everything to go through your servers down the road, you could perhaps set up a private `replyto:` address for each recipient, which would automatically forward responses to the sender, similar to how Craigslist does it.
I suspect anyone important enough to need a service like this would likely care far more about the filtration benefit than the revenue. I'd rather set a lower fee, then pick and choose the most interesting messages to reply to. But if I knew every sender had already paid for the privledge, I might feel obliged to reply to them all.