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Show HN: I built a tool to stop cold email spam (Unspam.io)

by louwhopley on 5/18/24, 7:00 PM with 7 comments

Hi HN! I'm Louw, founder of the enterprise insurtech scale-up Root[0]. Over the last 8 years, my inbox has been flooded with unsolicited emails, especially since early 2023. Recruitment services, outsourced software development agencies, and a crazy amount of lead generation services (thanks, Apollo!) drowned my inbox.

To solve this, I created Unspam. Initially, it was a simple tool for myself and fellow founders to reduce noise. And it worked — about 10% of my emails were swiftly and accurately categorized as unsolicited messages.

Given its success, I've decided to package and share Unspam with the broader community, evolving it into Unspam.io.

How it works: 1. Hook up your Gmail 2. Unspam monitors received mail in the background 3. Unsolicited emails are labeled and archived

Please try it out and let me know your feedback. What would you improve? https://unspam.io

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[0] https://rootplatform.com [1] PS: I value privacy intensely. Unspam doesn’t record, store, or train on your emails. No need to.

  • by Oras on 5/19/24, 10:17 AM

    It is certainly a problem but you said you value privacy, so I think it’s a hard sell for people to give access of their email (which mostly have sensitive information) to a SaaS product that has just started.

    Btw, there is an open source app doing the same called inbox zero.

  • by 20240519 on 5/19/24, 6:28 AM

    While this is a problem to be solved, I feel like MS and Google and just tweak their spam algos and your tool would no longer be needed.

  • by wannacboatmovie on 5/18/24, 7:34 PM

    How is this measurably different from running SpamAssassin against my local mail queue the same way I did it 20-some years ago? Other than 1) it requires Gmail which any privacy-conscious user won't use, and 2) "AI"