felixdoerp

I think this is a pretty big moment. If this holds (cautious since this company also has a vested interest) it could mean that we see similar dynamics that we saw in LLM / GPT stuff

I am glad to hear! :)

for new sign ups that would indeed make it difficult. The tool checks what senders have sent you transactional looking emails and puts them on a whitelist.

if you sign up to a new service you would have to look into your archive for the sign up email.

you can pay what you want for the service, including 0 dollars for a lifetime access :)

that is what I was thinking

I basically saw a lot of people complaining about it on LinkedIn and Reddit - spam filters seem to be struggling. And I also just thought this would be an interesting idea to play around with.

pretty much this. The idea is that putting work / resources behind the sent message translates into more relevant messages getting into the owner's inbox.

super interesting - did not know!

100%! AFAIK apple is working on a pre-screening for unknown callers for the same reason. And it would be interesting to explore if pay to call / captcha to call would be feasible :)

this sounds really similar to how the tool works and processes emails, too.

Would you feel this would be more helpful if the tool just silently manages the emails and does not send any replies to the original sender then?

good point! will adjust :)

valid point and for personal inboxes I would also not think this makes a lot of sense. Yet, for many businesses or people in these businesses, the amount of inbound is just not manageable at this point.

this could also be an option, yes!

also very valid. Currently updating this to a pay-what-you-want lifetime purchase, where 0 is also a valid price?

valid point. I feel for many people the amount of inbound is just not bearable anymore with ai. Yet these people cannot close their account, either. This is basically an idea to increase the inbound friction for exactly these people.

do you have a take on how one could upp the relevancy of emails so that people can actually manage their inbound? Or any other open channel that is getting flooded, for that matter?

yeah I think this is for sure the issue that I currently do not have a solution for.

for those emails I would (currently) need to rely on the user to check their archive if they specifically wait for a password reset, for example.

Yeah I feel right now captchas can do a decent job of providing some friction, also captcha providers work on upping their game. the pay-to-deliver is what I see as the ultimate show that this message should be relevant.

I am interested to see how this plays out and what will happen to potentially stranded assets. Not even talking about outdated chips but all these gas turbines. I appreciate what this push can do to the built out of grids etc.

I think this is a very interesting problem. I feel we would already win a lot if we had something like a bot-protection / captcha for inboxes. That little increase in friction would already up the relevancy I feel.