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28 pointsrikkipitt12 comments

Hello, I'm Rikki Pitt, the founder of Paced Email (https://www.paced.email).

Paced Email aims to help reduce distraction in your inbox. It batches up emails and newsletters into paced summaries, so you're able to concentrate more effectively. Daily, weekly and monthly intervals are currently supported.

How it works:

  - Grab your username
  - Create programmable email aliases on the fly
  - Use your aliases on sites that send you emails too frequently

At the end of each period, your real email address receives a single email containing all of the messages the alias received over that timeframe.

Examples:

  johndoe.shopify@daily.paced.email
  johndoe.stripe@weekly.paced.email
  johndoe.github@monthly.paced.email

More ideas are on the roadmap and will feature in due course. Team support is also in the pipeline. For those that are interested in the inner workings, I've started a document about how I built it: https://www.paced.email/docs/how-it-works.

The app is still in its infancy, but I'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions. Which services would you use your aliases on first?

upvote for how awesome the product is.

Thanks so much! Are you a user?

Hi! I like the idea too, but have some difficulty understanding pricing. Specifically, what does "1 inbox, 50 monthly messages, Unlimited digests" mean? Does 1 inbox mean that my digests will be sent to one of email addresses (e.g., me@gmail.com)? How about messages? I couldn't quickly find this information on the mobile site.

Hey there, I really ought to update that to make that a bit clearer. It's a tricky one for me to get across. The free plan doesn't have any hard limits, and I've toed-and-froed with what to place under that section in terms of "limits".

What I was trying to say was for the alias, you can get as many paced digests as it takes to receive all the emails it received in the month. Not having hard limits prevents people from not getting all their emails. My plan was to then use those "limits" as a way of encouraging users to move to the premium plan. Premium has some extra functionality around what time of the day digests are sent.

I hope that clarifies the pricing!

Update: I've just made it a little clearer. I've also made a note to mention this in the docs.

Good and useful idea, so kudos. Still, I can't help but feel that this is at the wrong level of the stack. Ideally, my email client should be doing this, and I shouldn't need to have messages go through a middleman. Just a personal gripe and comment.

Agreed! In the meantime, this is one way of calming down the distraction in your inbox until it's fixed at a more fundamental level.

Thanks for the feedback!

This is a very interesting idea, it blew my mind the timeframe subdomain.

I was about to ask about the technologies and I smiled when I saw that in the documentation. Great work and good luck!

Thank you. A lot of people asked how it was developed so I decided to document it. Glad you liked it.

This is genius ! Congratulations for the idea and the execution. It's been a while since a tech product amazed me that much.

Thank you for your kind words. I'm thinking of starting a section on the site with all the interesting ways in which people are using the service. If you have a moment, I'd love to hear how it's helping you.

Cheers, Rikki

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