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Wrte.io — Email with a paywall. Charge for reading your email.
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@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
@ivanpashenko @rrhoover some people want to use it like 1 time email - for service registration
@rrhoover from tweets:
"I love the write.io concept. I worked in adult for a long time and think adult models area HUGE market for this product. HUGE"
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...
@stvmcg Yes, it's alive for Product Hunters! Did you registered your account? If somehow it's not activated yet, let me know. I'll activate it manually.
I think this could be a useful product -- kind of like a different iteration of Clarity.fm, where you pay for access/advice from experts.
@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.
Hey, a new profit model for the tech press! The team at Upstart Business Journal had a pretty good laugh about using this to invoice flacks for pitches, but I'm not sure anybody is going to pay to land in a journalist's inbox. Plenty of hacks like us to choose from!
@cprins_ We have already whitelist for a few services. Which one do you want to see there?
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.
@mostlyalia Thanks! I think I've missed this discussion. I'd love to look at it.
Really interesting idea - I could see this working well for some kind of 'premium support' service for web developers or other experts to handle certain types of requests they receive.
I'll be happy if you add paypal or something that non US can use , i can drive more then 20 orders a day , i a was looking for this !
@ilyashassani Thanks! We will think about it. But Stripe is going global fast. Hopefully it will be in your country soon.
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.
@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.
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