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Leave Me Alone — Easily unsubscribe from spam emails 💌
Leave Me Alone is an email unsubscription service, with a focus on privacy.
Simply connect your Gmail account and you will see all your newsletters, subscriptions and spam, which you can then unsubscribe from with a single click.
Take back control of your inbox by getting rid of the subscription spammers.
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Thanks again @abadesi! And thanks to @anthilemoon for that discovery tweet 😃
Am I the only having fear to get you guys access to my Gmail, which essentially means my whole digital life?
PS Love it. Signed up.
@visualpharm People definitely should be wary about handing out their Gmail info! Would love to know how we could be ease your mind about this?
Hey Product Hunt! ✌️
I’m Danielle, one of makers of Leave Me Alone. The other is my partner @jamesivings 👫. Thank you so much @abadesi for both hunting us and also being one of our first customers! 💛
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Leave Me Alone is an email unsubscription service which lets you see all of your emails in one place, and unsubscribe from spam with a single click.
💭 Inspiration
James and I find managing emails a huge drain on time and productivity. Spam emails plagued us daily and we wanted a service which would show all of the email lists we were subscribed to and allow us to unsubscribe easily.
🙅♀️ Problem
We found a few services that would help us unsubscribe from emails automatically for free, but a closer looks shows that’s because they make their money by selling all of your data for marketing purposes. 🤢
🛠 Solution
Faced with the dilemma of a messy inbox or all of our data being exploited, we decided to build our own service and make it privacy focused. Leave Me Alone was born! 🐣
With Leave Me Alone you can:
✉️ See all of your subscriptions, newsletters and spam emails in one place
👋 Unsubscribe from unwanted lists with a single click
💌 Favourite senders you want to keep
🕐 Set a reminder to scan again
Unlike our competitors, we wont ever sell your data (in fact we don't even store any email content). We also actually unsubscribe you from emails rather than just moving them to trash, so those subscriptions are gone forever, even if you decide to stop using our service.
Leave Me Alone is a paid service (so that you know we don't need to sell your data to keep afloat), but we've tried to keep it as fair and affordable as possible. A single one-off payment allows you to perform a scan on your inbox for spam received in the last 1-6 months, and unsubscribe from as many as you like (try and beat our high score of 316)!
To celebrate our launch day we're offering Product Hunt users a special discount of 20% off any scan. Just use the coupon PH_HATES_SPAM when you get to the payment screen 😇
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👫 About Us
James and I are a couple of travelling indie makers. We have built Leave Me Alone without funding and completely in the open (read more here). Leave Me Alone is proud to be an open startup. You can see all of our revenue, users, and other stats on our (open page)!
😇 Honourable mentions
Thank you so much to @iamarnob and @mshra_ji for creating our absolutely incredible logo GIF. Thank you to our every one of our beta testers and early adopters for your help making LMA a service which has helped over 500 people already. Thank you to @dinuka_jayasuriya for creating Makers Kitchen which provided us with a wealth of help and suggestions. Thank you to @marie_dm_ for founding Women Make which has been fantastic support. And thanks to YOU for reading this far!
We will be here and on Twitter all day if you have any feedback, questions, or want to say hello, we’d love to chat!
- Danielle & James
@jamesivings @mshra_ji @dinkydani21 Pleasure working for *Leave me alone*, You guys are doing some great job and also congrats on the PH Launch!
@iamarnob Thank you! And thank you so so much for making our kick-ass gif! ❤️
@jamesivings @dinkydani21 @iamarnob it was fun working for *Leave me alone*, It's an awesome product. Congrats on the launch!
I LOVE LMA. It is sooo seamless and I love that it's a privacy-first product. When you think of the cost savings of not going through your email every morning it's sooo ROI positive. 🤯
I believed in it's value to so much that I ended up buying a subscription for my entire team for the holidays. They had similar feelings about LMA and some ended up buying additional gifts for their friends.
Excited to see it finally up on PH!
@stephsmith 😍 incredible words thank you so much! We wouldn't be here without your support! And as @jamesivings said without a doubt our #1 customer 😄
@lee_fuhr Haha, why don't you take the shirt off my back as well?
Kidding 😛of course that's fine. Just make sure you tell all your friends! Check out our referral scheme if you want more handouts 😉
@jamesivings Ha! I actually think I might just plunk down the money. I didn't realize how reasonable your pricing was. I figured you would have some subscription model, etc. I really like what you're doing here and want to support that.
…AND tell my friends. I already posted it to a few communities of like-minded folks.
Can you help me understand how this product unsubscribes you from "spam", which is generally from senders that don't respect unsubscribe links?
@jordankrueger A fair question. You're right in that this isn't a spam filter, it wont protect you from one-off spam emails that are not part of a subscription service.
By "spam" we're really referring to all "graymail" - subscriptions that you once subscribed to that you no longer want, or subscriptions that you may have been subscribed to against your will.
We should probably put this in the FAQ so thanks for asking!
@jamesivings Yeah, you shouldn't conflate the two as you're doing above. Just because you no longer want email from a sender does not mean that it's spam, as long as there's an easy unsubscribe process. Any bulk sender "following the rules" provides a clear unsubscribe process. Spam is email that you did not sign up for and from your answer it appears that you have no way of actually unsubscribing someone from that unless the sender is going to respect your unsubscribe request, which seems unlikely to me. So the advertising here is taking some liberties.
@jordankrueger Yes you're probably right.
However to most users "spam" means any emails that they don't want to receive anymore. Including both one-off spam and all graymail.
We'll have a think about how better to represent this on the homepage. Thanks for your feedback!
@jamesivings @jordankrueger some of this is spam though. I frequently end up on email lists "because I interacted with X service". Sure I can click unsubscribe and they'll remove me from that list, but it's spam because I never agreed to be mailed in the first place.
I can't count the number of "Bob/Jane from X Startup: How are you finding our service? Tips for getting started" automated emails that I've gotten. Even if I have no desire to be part of an on-boarding flow.
Hell, I somehow ended up on a US democrat/left mailing list that seems to just get passed onwards and onwards (i.e. different causes). I'm Australian, so it's pretty obvious (to me at least) that I shouldn't be on those mailing lists. This is spam, even if it is "well behaved legal spam".
@jamesivings @vertis And you're sure that in those cases the form you submitted your information into didn't clearly say something like, "You'll receive emails from us"? I bet that's true for most cases. I'm not saying there aren't senders who fall into a gray zone – just like yourself, I've experienced signing up for a service and then getting a promotional-type email in which there isn't even an unsubscribe link on there. Or some kind of outreach like you received with no opt-out. There are bad habits, for sure. But my concern is more about conflating "spam" with "email I don't want anymore," which ARE two different things. And the reason this is important is because the more we blur this line, the more users believe that "I haven't opened these emails for a few weeks so I don't want to get them anymore and therefore it's spam" is a true statement, the more it empowers inbox providers like Gmail to abuse email as a protocol and start "tailoring" experiences for users as if their inbox was a Facebook timeline. That's a bad thing because it creates a scenario where small but "good" senders – say, your local community group – suddenly have to either be willing to pay to get into the inbox (via the promotions tab) or have to have a level of knowledge that's simply impractical to "organically" arrive in the inbox.
I absolutely love LMA! My inbox really needed a clean up, and it did a fantastic job. Plus, @dinkydani21 and @jivings provide timely, friendly support in case you need extra help. It's nice to get rid of all the spam so you can focus on the few subscriptions I actually appreciate. 🙌
How James and Danielle worked on every little detail was and is impressive for me! I got rid of tens of unwanted subscriptions.
I have a question, how did you decided it wasn't ready for Product Hunt launch? What did you change? If you were launching again, would you do the same?
Thanks! 💯
@morajabi Good question! We soft launched with just the basic email unsub functionality. But publishing it to a wider audience we wanted to address the main pain points of our users.
These were;
1. Being able to add some senders to an ignore list.
2. Being able to re-run a scan if something goes wrong.
3. Various UI improvements
We also wanted to add a referral scheme to encourage users to do our advertising for us 🙈
Building in the open has been a great way to get rapid feedback on these things and more.
Interesting business model! Do you see this as a potential long term business/product or more of a short term monetizable MVP?
@haoyangnz Thanks! We hope that it can become a long term business.
From research with our customers we've found that a large number of our sales came from users buying scans for their entire office, so we are going to explore the option of offering a business subscription plan. By paying a monthly fee, businesses can run an unlimited number of scans on any company employee email address. We're going to advertise this as a huge productivity boost for your team, as they no longer have to waste valuable time sorting through their emails.
Crazy to realize how many spam subscriptions I had. My inbox is so much cleaner now!
Pros:Simple, easy to use, clean interface + great support.
Cons:Only supports Gmail for now but wouldn't be surprised if more platforms are supported in the future.
It sounded really interesting until I found out it only works with gmail. Any plans to have it work with anything else?
@growmap Hey Gail. Sorry about this 😞. We do have plans to support other providers soon! What provider would you like us to add? You can vote on our roadmap https://leavemealone.xyz/roadmap and I'll add it if yours isn't there 😇
@dinkydani21 I use email that is on my own domain because it is more private. Why hand everything you think, do, and write to the people aggregating it all? Of course that doesn't really help much if almost everyone chooses to use gmail and they get it all because of that. I thought people were using it because there was no spam?
@growmap That makes sense! When I moved to Gmail from Hotmail years ago there was very little spam and I think they still do a good job of filtering out actual spam emails. What Leave Me Alone helps with is greymail which is subscription emails which you may not want any more or may have been subscribed to by a third party.
I've been using LMA for over a month now I think. Been a participant in its beta program and let me just say that the number of spam emails I've unsubbed using this is definitely in the range of 80-150. My inbox is clean and it's all thanks to LMA. Highly recommended
Pros:Does what it says it does to its fullest potential and more
Cons:Literally none at all
I frikking loveeee LMA. I use it to clean out my inboxes at least once every week. My review above says it all. Thanks for an awesome product James and Danielle. It's been so fun watching you both build this 🔥🚒
@dinuka_jayasuriya Thank you millions Dinuka for your support! We'll continue to build in the open for sure 🙌
LeaveMeAlone helped me unsubscribe from around 300 mailing lists which were such a big help. Thank You for making this one! @dinkydani21 @jamesivings
@ankit_kumar3 That's huge! The record is 316 - could this be you?! 🤔 haha - thank you for using our app!
LMA made it easy to clean your inbox, and it’s privacy focused! I hope they can make it available for other mail services, I have other inbox to clean...
Pros:It’s just so satisfying to tick the boxes and unsubscribe so easily. The process is really smooth.
Cons:None
I had a few bad or unsatisfying experiences before which make me very suspicious about services like this. But I got convinced pretty quickly that this is trust worthy, both from reading there mission and reason why they are makes. Besides that I like their transparent business model. Let's see how much $8 can help me get my inbox back in a state where I don't ask people to text me if they have sent an important email.
Good luck both of you 😄
One thing will you support imap at some point? My private domain is where I have most spam issues.
@madshensel Yessss, we've had a few people mention imap/pop support. I'll look into this for sure.
@madshensel So awesome to hear Mads! I hope we can help you get some inbox sanity back - having to use texts sounds like a nightmare 😅
@dinkydani21 It has is benefits, but mostly it's just adding one more element in a busy everyday life that hijacks your cognitive capacity :)
@jamesivings Awesome, how do I get notified about this. You could send me a email, but you know... the issue with that ;) I guess I could follow you on twitter?
Congrats on the launch! It was very easy to use and I was happy to upgrade a few weeks back to clear out older emails :)
@guillaumebardet Thank you so much! That's awesome, I'm so glad we could help you get a cleaner inbox for the New Year ✌️
Guys, I love your service! But! I signed up with my GMail, scanned 3 days back, loved it, then tried to buy the 6 month tier. After 3 codes sent to my mobile and several more attempts, I managed to get to pay you. All good, until I logged in on my mobile with the same GMail account - no subscription, back to 3 days free. Tried to contact you in web chat, could not invoke the keyboard. Have you really tested it, end-to-end? And the second question: to what is the payment linked, if not to my GMail account?
@utestme Hey! Thanks for purchasing. It sounds like your bank was declining the transaction for some reason. I can see your payment has gone through now so that's good.
Due to our policy of not storing any email information if you log in on a different device then you wont be able to see the results of a scan that was performed elsewhere. However if you visit the scan history page (https://leavemealone.xyz/app/his...), then you should be able to re-run the 6 month scan from your mobile.
@dinkydani21 Minor typo, on the estimate progress box it says "Asking Google to estimating your mails". Otherwise quite slick so far. Love the detection of success/fail on the unsubscribe! (Though you might wish to add a spinner while the screenshot loads; sometimes the delay is confusing.)
@dinkydani21 @rgoodwin It's one of my favourite features. So many diverse and annoying unsubscribe variations, and this tool was so well thought through that it showed when it couldn't verify success.
@dinkydani21 @rgoodwin haha there's nothing right about that sentence. We'll get that sorted thanks!
And thanks for the suggestion, I think it's already on my list but if not then I will get it done ASAP.
@dinkydani21 @jamesivings Thanks! I'm having some problems with my account and scans, and I can't seem to type into the chat window, but I'm guessing you're getting a ton of traffic at the moment so I'll let it settle for a few hours.
@dinkydani21 @rgoodwin That's no good! The servers are running quite hot but scans still seem to be going through. I'll DM you and we'll try and sort it.
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