Show HN: Inbox Pirates, a way to preview, test and analyze your emails

Show HN: Inbox Pirates, a way to preview, test and analyze your emails(inboxpirates.com)

10 points by goforbg 3 years ago | 13 comments

Hi HN, My name is Bharadwaj Giridhar. I'm the founder of inboxpirates.com . Inbox Pirates is an email preview tool for sales & marketing teams. It helps you preview how your email actually looks in your receiver's inbox.

When I was building Crewcharge, an email marketing tool - I needed to build a feature to show a preview of how the email looks. I was searching for inspiration and realised most email preview tools only showed you the email in full screen when it's opened as if all emails get opened.

While this happened, my friend who is a digital marketer sent an email to himself and grabbed 3 phones around the house. When I asked why, he replied that most people don't even open the emails and read it from the notification bars.

Another friend missed a job interview because he swiped on the notification thinking it was a promotion.

After a survey it was clear than more 75% of the people do the same and that most email marketing or email outreach tools are optimizing for wrong placements.

I built this as a chrome extension so it would be open to existing email marketing and email outreach tools in the market. It currently integrates with Google Workspace, Hubspot, Apollo io, Snov io, Mailchimp, Sendinblue, Google Sheets / Notion / Airtable.

The way it works is it parses the dom for the email text (or HTML), subject line, Sender name and creates the previews in a new tab where you can explore how the email looks on Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, Androids, iPhones.

Future integrations in pipeline include Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Instantly, Lemlist, Outreach io.

Launched on Producthunt reaching #1 product of the day and reached around 450 users, a lot of us discover us on Google when they search for email preview or email testing tools.

The vision of inboxpirates is to also give you a good email score to get higher response and open rates, using NLP and the core version is very basic with some bugs.

Bootstrapped solo-founder here with a production version, sorry in advance for some of the bugs against specific email clients!

I've spent around 5 months building and marketing this tool alone, but I wanted to really see if people cared enough about this problem.

Appreciate all thoughts and feedback. For anything else, mail me at inboxpirates[at]gmail.com

kactus 3 years ago |

Great looking tool! I have a UX nitpick about the pricing page, the loading indicator saying "fetching our best prices" gives me the impression that the prices change frequently, and that I should check back later.

goforbg 3 years ago | |

Thank you! Basically we send the timezone and fetch prices from stripe. I need to add a cache, noted :)

mcnx097 3 years ago |

Regular user of InboxPirates here. I really love your product and I recommend to every Digital Marketing people who sending lots of emails.

parker_mountain 3 years ago | |

Hi Ben. I dug through your name and your portfolio, and your LinkedIn, and other posts you've made on the Internet. And what I found was amazing. You're someone claiming to be from Bristol, but you are very clearly someone who is not from there. You have left a massive footprint on the Internet, that's strongly suggests you're also the same person as the person who posted this item. If you're not the same person, well, you're certainly close to each other - and also, this identity is a fake.

What OP built is actually pretty cool. I would suggest removing these posts of almost-certainly fake reviews - and letting it stand on its own.

edit: they are actively deleting accounts and the "Ben" profiles now that I have called this out. Honesty is the best policy.

goforbg 3 years ago | | |

If you're looking in to dig in more here are my social links:

https://goforbg.com https://linkedin.com/in/goforbg https://twitter.com/goforbg https://github.com/goforbg

Here's that of MC Naveen

https://mcnaveen.com/ https://github.com/mcnaveen https://twitter.com/the_mcnaveen https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcnaveen/

goforbg 3 years ago | | |

Hi Parker. My name is Bharadwaj and MC naveen is a facebook friend of mine. I didn't ask him to comment, just shared a link of the launch on Facebook.

Just because two people are from India, doesn't mean it has to be a fake review. Please do proper research before you comment.

goforbg 3 years ago | |

Thanks! Glad to hear