Show HN: Pence, deals crowdsourced from marketing emails

Show HN: Pence, deals crowdsourced from marketing emails(app.pence.so)

2 points by birudeghi 1 year ago | 2 comments

Hi folks! I've created Pence out of frustration that I always miss good deals from emails just because marketing emails are so hard to read (not to mention a landmine of spams that you don't care about).

Pence is here to solve that: Only showing you the deals from your marketing emails that you actually want to know about, including the promo codes usually hidden in the fine-print. Whilst we're at it, why not crowdsource publicly available deals that other users get in their inbox for others to benefit? One man's trash is another man's treasure. So in Pence you can also discover new brands and promotions you'll not see in your own inbox.

I think we're hitting a gold mine here: We are beating Honey and other voucher websites by both quantity of valid codes (100% vs 30% for Honey) and quality (50% of promotions are 30% off and above). And the best part: Some paid users have net saved money through the paid subscription.

We want this to be a paid product but for the purposes of Show HN you can try this out for free. FAQs here: https://ixn.notion.site/Pence-FAQs-f42ba4a8509d4f2f8fd167499...

Let us know what you think!

lizwong 1 year ago |

But how do you make yourself not a spam? Like you said there’s tons of spam emails…

birudeghi 1 year ago | |

That’s a good question, in that there’s a valid incentive for companies (including Pence) to send you emails for promotional purposes. Marketing emails do correlate to brand image and therefore sales, and that is no exception for Pence. We will send you occasional emails (one email per week) to remind you of the offers you might miss, but nothing more than that.

However, Pence exists because we want you to never have to open your inbox ever again for non-communication emails, including going into it to manage them (automatic unsubscribe and deletion is part of the product roadmap).

If you care about the technical aspect of why we do what we do, email is a messaging protocol at the end of the day, and we are using email at a too low-level way (imagine reading your WhatsApp messages in a spreadsheet. Yes, that’s how absurd Gmail currently is). We deserve better and I think Pence is a good hypothesis to start with.