Bitbounce - Email paywall

I used it for a few days and then turned it off. I wish that there was a way of whitelisting domains instead of verifying individual people—it's embarrassing when I ask someone to email me, they do so, and are immediately met with an ask for payment (if I could whitelist domains, that problem wouldn't happen nearly as often). Not only that, but the app required a ton of manual work on my end. For example, I whitelisted all of my contacts, but my subscriptions aren't necessarily in my address book. That meant that BitBounce was sending messages to my bank, to LinkedIn, and to daily roundups that I subscribe to. Manually whitelisting each of those email addresses was too much for me to do on my own. Finally, I used this product enough to "bounce" over 1,000 emails. Unsurprisingly, not a single one paid anything. I'm not sure how viable this product is to really deter anything, let alone make money off of it. As a software reviewer, I was stoked to have some kind of app that put distance between me and the 100s of product pitch emails I get a week, but the manual effort and low ROI just didn't make it worth it.

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I am incredibly stupid for trusting this service -- if you are reading this, please check your Gmail activity for a ton of sins being committed by them. 3 weeks after signing up, all the weird things happening with my Gmail finally clicked: - The strange "unpaid" labels being added to emails (not bad, just confusing) - automatic replies being sent out from bitbounce (spam is bad, but this takes the cake) - you guys spamming my entire contacts list. I checked my "sent" history and looks like these spam emails got sent out 13 days over 3 weeks. Your login needs a "forget password" link, your site needs to show the Turing company ownership, and your application should be requesting Gmail access under the name Bitbounce, and not your other SaaS company. It took me half an hour to backtrace what app and permissions were sending out the spam. I'm not sure what's worse: releasing software that was buggy on the Contacts list spam feature, not having explicit permission opt-ins (auth doesn't count)., or that it took a lot of investigative work to find out which application was spamming and to revoke those permissions. I wouldn't trust this company, unless you really enjoy that cringe feeing of sending out emails to every single person on your contacts list.

I absolutely urge you NOT to use this service. i naively connected my account and hoped it would do good. I will say for sense of disclosure i have been trying thousands of services and contributed significantly to this community here. But i have *never* seen something like that. and worse how the company management deal with this. I smelled something was wrong when they asked full gmail permissions but also when they asked permission to DEBIT my coinbase account. But today i discovered that this service is automatically mailing any incoming email getting your way with a ransom to pay get your email through.
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I was furious to discover this. I immediately logged in to their service to stop that and delete my account. There is no way to do that. I deactivted my gmail account and contacted their support to do so. I then receive an answer from someone who appears to be their CEO who claims he was "transparent" about this assumed hack... which i was supposed to know and be ok with ( i was supposed to know it from "PH" as he calls it, like everyone knows PH is PRODUCT HUNT). And this person arrogantly goes on justifying with white gloves this is a transparent HACK. I also discovered that in order to cut the gmail permission they are using a different name on the app so that it is harder to find it in google settings (hint: it s called TURING). I will say this: this is the typical behavior of companies who are ready to do anything to get growth and momentum, probably before their ICO.
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They check all the wrong marks from hacks to how they re not even apologizing. Typical bad company This company 's mission is to STOP spam. They actually create more spam, destroy trust and help a little more creating the bad atmosphere that lately this space is witnessing ps: their CEO was aware of the problem a month ago...fixed nothing...hacks pays out...apparently from this community discussion i am not the only one to have been fooled
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Because of the attitude of their CEO i decided to publish the whole story in detail. This is exactly what not to do https://medium.com/@ourielohayon...

It's a novel idea but I think it's shortsighted. First of all, The white list assumes that you know the addresses of everyone that you may want to send email to you. So if that long lost family member gets in touch, they'd be charged for the privilege of getting in contact? Secondly, email marketers would have little chance of actually seeing these bounces, and an even smaller chance of actually being able to act upon them. The logistics of email platforms just don't facilitate this. So then what we're left with, is a tool that is very good at filtering out a specific type of message, namely a prospecting email from one individual to another, but as thats only a part of the spam you receive, it's unlikely to be the gatekeeper it supposes to be and is more like a brick wall.

Using it for few months and it saved me a lot of time and also earn me some cryptocurrency through paid content that was sent to me - which actually work cause I read those mails since they stood out from the others I usually recieved as whitelisted.

Pros:

saving time and filter mail much better. Also as the platform will grow it seems to offer a lot of potential in e-mail marketing

Cons:

none

Dhananjayारा

good for the owners only

Pros:

none

Cons:

good for the owners

Why on earth would you use a system that stops your emails coming through. It will stop Spam AND your legit emails. Nobody is going to pay 5 cents to send you something.