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Show HN: I indexed 1.3m+ email newsletters

by drpancake on 3/9/23, 10:14 AM with 16 comments

  • by Uptrenda on 3/9/23, 10:42 AM

    Cool, can you make it so I can block my email from all of them now?

  • by lloydatkinson on 3/9/23, 10:58 AM

    The results are not very helpful.

    I searched for ".NET" and got mostly results about economics, climate and a "Music Help Desk" whatever that is.

    I searched for JavaScript and got results from newsletters I've never heard of that have less than 10 published issues.

    Googling for both things returns dozens of results for both search terms.

  • by mdw on 3/9/23, 12:23 PM

    I can imagine the servers running warm after all this indexing :)

  • by whitakerch on 3/9/23, 3:21 PM

    Dates. Would be nice to have some sort of date info. Be it when the newsletter started or, more useful, the date of the latest issue. Yea it's a short search away but I'd like to know if the results I'm seeing are even relevant as I see them.

  • by FredPret on 3/9/23, 10:52 AM

    Love this. Always looking for non-ad ways of reaching interested customers

  • by jonifico on 3/9/23, 1:55 PM

    nice! And I probably could give it a try to the premium version, however I've a question, do newsletter owners accept to have their emails included in the directory? or did you get the information through publicly available data? It's important for our campaigns to know how to approach each potential publisher

  • by zaplin on 3/9/23, 11:35 AM

    two comments.

    Can I edit my newsletter entry? Secondly, it's SUPER expensive.

    What you've built is very helpful because, as I'm sure you can see in your data, most newsletters have low digits subscribers and looking for inexpensive ways to grow. AKA cross-promotions.

    So your product is an expensive gateway to try inexpensive techniques for growth.

  • by taubek on 3/9/23, 11:06 AM

    How big is your database? I mean in terms of GB.