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ismaelyws

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Founder @ Hello Inbox
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ismaelyws··on FlightList – Cheap Flights Across Any Date Range
Search cheap flights across flexible date ranges instead of single dates.
ismaelyws··on Hello Inbox – Get more marketing emails into the inbox
That's one way to look at it. There are many legitimate reasons for companies to send email. Onboarding sequences, discounts, product updates, announcements, etc. You know you can just unsubscribe right?
ismaelyws··on Show HN: Hello Inbox – Your AI Email Deliverability Expert, Available 24/7
Hello HN community, my name is Hans, founder of Hello Inbox.

Hello Inbox is a web app with 9 tools built around an AI assistant I trained on hundreds of real deliverability use cases (think GlockApps or Folderly combined with a Top-Rated email deliverability expert at your fingertips).

It contains my entire knowledge base and everything I learned in 4 years of deliverability audits and consultations, distilled into one platform anyone can use, without needing to pay for an expensive consultant or audit.

There's a lot of smart people on this platform so I'm looking for constructive feedback.

How's our positioning, pricing, is this a tool you would use for your business?

Even if you don't like it, be brutally honest and specific.

If you have any questions, I'll be here for the next 6 hours.

Ask me anything.

ismaelyws··on Why Gmail and Outlook Are Silently Killing Your Business
My clients don't send spam. They are legitimate businesses sending product updates, nurture sequences, promotions, information, transactional messages, etc. The idea that emails are "spam" simply because they land in the spam folder is incorrect.
ismaelyws··on Why Gmail and Outlook Are Silently Killing Your Business
ok, try now. You should be able to access it. LMK if not.
ismaelyws··on Why Gmail and Outlook Are Silently Killing Your Business
If you’re curious what this means for your business, i’ll be here for the next 6 hours answering questions. AMA.
ismaelyws··on The dead economy theory
Yep, if AI gutters the middleclass and small budinesses who you gonna sell to?
ismaelyws··on I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline
Been thinking the same lately…
ismaelyws··on Leave Me Behind
Most humans derive their purpose and meaning from their work. Has always been that way. What do you think happens when you remove meaning from people’s lives at scale? It won’t be pretty.
ismaelyws··on Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links
Damn. And this completely bypasses any anti-spoofing protection.
ismaelyws··on Show HN: Hello Inbox – Free email deliverability checklist for marketers
Did not know that about DNSSEC, have you seen it directly impact sender/domain reputation?
ismaelyws··on Show HN: Hello Inbox – Free email deliverability checklist for marketers
Yes I'm aware lol, the page has so much info it's a pain in the ass to optimize it all for mobile, but yes I need to address that at some point. Thanks for the reminder. Will get to it soon.
ismaelyws··on Show HN: Hello Inbox – Free email deliverability checklist for marketers
Love this idea!
ismaelyws··on Show HN: Hello Inbox – Free email deliverability checklist for marketers
Yes this is also very annoying.
ismaelyws··on Show HN: Hello Inbox – Free email deliverability checklist for marketers
Complete agree with you, I also don't like it when the unsubscribe text is smaller than the rest of the text, subscribers that never open your emails end up hurting your engagement over time and in turn your deliverability, better just make it easy for people who are no longer interested to unsubscribe.
ismaelyws··on Show HN: Hello Inbox – Free email deliverability checklist for marketers
You're welcome!
ismaelyws··on Show HN: Hello Inbox – Free email deliverability checklist for marketers
You're welcome, glad you find it helpful :)
ismaelyws··on Show HN: Hello Inbox – Free email deliverability checklist for marketers
Yes it can hurt reputation and torpedo open rates if a sender receives consistent spam complaints over a sustained period of time. I’ve seen it happen in real time with a client who claimed their leads were warm/opt-in when in fact they were not all. Open rates went from 38-40% to under 7% within a few hours. So the spam button is effective, that’s why it’s important to only email warm/opt-in contacts for bulk email, send engaging content and make it easy to unsubscribe.
ismaelyws··on Show HN: Hello Inbox – Free email deliverability checklist for marketers
You’re welcome :) glad it’s helpful. LMK if you think I should add or change something. I’m always open to improving it.
ismaelyws··on Show HN: Hello Inbox – Free email deliverability checklist for marketers
Most of my customers work really hard and spend a lot of time and money to acquire opt-in leads only to see their efforts go to waste. There are many legitimate reasons for making sure an email makes it to the inbox. Without even mentioning transactional emails. Not sure where you got the idea that I’m providing "tips for disguising your unsolicited commercial email as legitimate communication so you can succeed in shoving it into people's inboxes".
ismaelyws··on Show HN: Hello Inbox – Free email deliverability checklist for marketers
Good point, will add that. Thx for suggestion.
ismaelyws··on Show HN: FlightList Android App – Find cheap one way flights to any destination
It helps you find the cheapest one way flights to any destination by searching by departure date range and by airport, city, country or region. It will then show you the cheapest flights first in list format. Then you can filter according to your needs. So it makes it super easy and quick to find the cheapest dates and routes to fly. And was made for digital nomads and remote workers or anyone with flexible departure dates.
ismaelyws··on HelloInbox – Ultimate email deliverability checklist and toolkit
I'm going to add the option to check with a different selector.
ismaelyws··on HelloInbox – Ultimate email deliverability checklist and toolkit
Done. Thank you.
ismaelyws··on HelloInbox – Ultimate email deliverability checklist and toolkit
got it, ok.
ismaelyws··on HelloInbox – Ultimate email deliverability checklist and toolkit
I want to clarify that my checklist doesn't advocate for people to purchase lists. If someone is located in a jurisdiction that permits sending of unsolicited commercial mail, and they purchased a list then they should validate it. Validating also applies to contacts acquired through a single-opt in form (with a consent check) as some users will enter fake email address in order to download an ebook or free product. Though you can always send the download link in the email which forces people to use legitimate email address. But your point is well made, I should add a disclaimer, that users should comply with their countries laws and regulations when sending promotional email.
ismaelyws··on Show HN: Flightlist – Find the cheapest one-way flights in the world
yeah you're right. I need to make it more clear. Going to work on that, thanks for the kind feedback :)
ismaelyws··on Show HN: Flightlist – Find the cheapest one-way flights in the world
Nice! thx for the kind feedback and glad you like it :)
ismaelyws··on HelloInbox – Ultimate email deliverability checklist and toolkit
I haven't tried out hey.com yet. Does it mean I have to fill out some form or captcha in order to send someone an email? Or they would need to "approve" me first?
ismaelyws··on HelloInbox – Ultimate email deliverability checklist and toolkit
very good point.
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