I've used Clarity.fm for a while to answer calls and as @newrulesinvest mentioned, this could be used as an email-based version of that.
@ivanpashenko although you're still in a closed beta, what use case have emerged? Anything particularly unexpected?
@rrhoover actually we just started to send invites massively. Before we were testing “popular people” use-case. But it doesn’t work much. They don’t want to look arrogant.
Then I asked our subscribers how do they want to use it. I was surprised how brave some of them are:
- developer wants to charge his clients for extra corrections after the project is finished.
- asking a payment for a guaranteed reply within ‘x’ hours
- give this email to recruiters
- game idea that would use an email paywall (no idea what kind of game it could be :) )
- make from it kind of payment system. If someone want to buy a concert ticket or access to premium materials
Hey product hunters! We are playing around with a paywall for email. We want to know how this new format can be used and how the old-good email experience can be changed with it. Some ideas to start with:
- Services based on wrte.io, like http://tinytask.io
- Charge for you attention (e.g. journalists could charge for reading pitches)
- Public address without cold emails. Small paywall price (think of a post stamp), money goes to charity
Wrte.io is in a closed beta now, but for Product Hunters it is available from today.
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@ivanpashenko Not able to sign up with Stripe. I authorize the account and then hit Finish Registration and it says "not logged in"
[EDIT} Looks like it was tied to the fact that I hadn't confirmed my email. Should update your error message to reflect this case.
@ivanpashenko It's not entirely clear. Just signed up for an account. As @ryanhoover says, I'm still kinda looking for the right use case.
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This is an interesting psychological experiment more than anything else. I think even charging $0.05 would drastically deter people from emailing because the act of paying ANYTHING at all is psychologically significant.
That said; I really do like the notion of email as a completely open medium and siloing people behind paid walls feels a little wrong. Then again, the big companies do nothing but silo our personal information for the sake of monetization...
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For some services we would need a "whitelist" option to verify our new wrte.io emails
@cprins_ We have already whitelist for a few services. Which one do you want to see there?
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Why did it fail?
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I think I remember discussing this idea in the #startups slackchat, right? I really love it. I feel like it has a real spirit of experimentation. Good luck with it :) I'll be interested to see what use cases emerge.
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