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Email Garden/Inbox Gaurdianby
http://www.untitledstartup.com/backstage/products/show/email-gardeninbox-gaurdian
Many people get way more email than they can reasonable respond to, whether they are domain experts with many requests for help, popular bloggers with mobs of fans, over-burdened tech support staff, or minor/major cewebrities.
But rather than living under the pretext and weight of needing to answer each and every email, let senders with important messages bear the burden of certifying that their message is worth the recipients time.
By raising a very small pay-wall to email access, most frivolous or casual messages will be filtered out, allowing the recipient to focus on what is deemed important enough to put money behind. Once payment is detected, all messages from the payer could be made available to the recipient for 1 week's time, to provide a time-limited window for reply conversations.
Using Gmail's newly available OAuth access, this app could auto-archive all emails as they arrive. If a sender makes a PayPal payment (which can be detected from the payment confirmation email that arrives), all email from that sender can be moved to the inbox and marked as unread. The paid-for messages will then come through to the recipient, no matter what mail is used to connect to their inbox. If they use another email provider for regular email, they can simply create a Gmail account, and forward all mail that is to be filtered by the pay wall to that new account. Or it could run on non-gmail servers if the recipient is willing to share their username/password.
For an additional fee, the message could be resent to the recipient every day that it isn't answered (to bump it back to the top); or, for Gmail users, the message could be starred to highlight the priority.
This program could be made available for a flat monthly fee, or for a small percentage of total income generated, or tiered—based on how many emails are processed ("$20/mo for up to 500 paid messages").
Since the app will be wired in to the Gmail account, it is only logical to include a nice statistics package for the user to see how their usage breaks down (like http://code.google.com/p/mail-trends). Additional information about how many paid vs unpaid messages are coming through would be insightful as well.
Micropayments + email regulation + pretty graphs = Email Garden (or Inbox Guardian)!
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Email Garden/Inbox Gaurdianby
http://www.untitledstartup.com/backstage/products/show/email-gardeninbox-gaurdian Too much email? Let senders buy-in for a little extra attention & responsiveness. Or use this as an *instant* paid email support system.
Charge email senders $2 for assurance of getting a response.Many people get way more email than they can reasonable respond to, whether they are domain experts with many requests for help, popular bloggers with mobs of fans, over-burdened tech support staff, or minor/major cewebrities.
But rather than living under the pretext and weight of needing to answer each and every email, let senders with important messages bear the burden of certifying that their message is worth the recipients time.
By raising a very small pay-wall to email access, most frivolous or casual messages will be filtered out, allowing the recipient to focus on what is deemed important enough to put money behind. Once payment is detected, all messages from the payer could be made available to the recipient for 1 week's time, to provide a time-limited window for reply conversations.
Using Gmail's newly available OAuth access, this app could auto-archive all emails as they arrive. If a sender makes a PayPal payment (which can be detected from the payment confirmation email that arrives), all email from that sender can be moved to the inbox and marked as unread. The paid-for messages will then come through to the recipient, no matter what mail is used to connect to their inbox. If they use another email provider for regular email, they can simply create a Gmail account, and forward all mail that is to be filtered by the pay wall to that new account. Or it could run on non-gmail servers if the recipient is willing to share their username/password.
For an additional fee, the message could be resent to the recipient every day that it isn't answered (to bump it back to the top); or, for Gmail users, the message could be starred to highlight the priority.
This program could be made available for a flat monthly fee, or for a small percentage of total income generated, or tiered—based on how many emails are processed ("$20/mo for up to 500 paid messages").
Since the app will be wired in to the Gmail account, it is only logical to include a nice statistics package for the user to see how their usage breaks down (like http://code.google.com/p/mail-trends). Additional information about how many paid vs unpaid messages are coming through would be insightful as well.
Micropayments + email regulation + pretty graphs = Email Garden (or Inbox Guardian)!
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