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Show HN: Rebump – Bump Important Emails Until They're Answered

by ezrameanshelp on 2/27/14, 5:15 PM with 48 comments

  • by wpietri on 2/27/14, 6:19 PM

    If I ever suspected a correspondent of using something like this, they would be dead to me.

    I appreciate a human-generated bump now and again, because it is a signal that they continue to care about what we were talking about. But automatically sending me message after machine-generated message to prod me into doing whatever they wanted? With no effort or intervening social judgment? Fuck that.

    For people to whom this appeals, I'd suggest my approach: keep a "pending" list. If you haven't heard back and still care, you can always take the 30 seconds to say, "Hey, have you had a chance to think more about this?" or whatever the contextually appropriate thing is.

  • by kohanz on 2/27/14, 6:42 PM

    This is probably not the site you are looking for! You attempted to reach www.rebump.cc, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as www.ohmspa.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of www.rebump.cc. You should not proceed, especially if you have never seen this warning before for this site.

  • by chrisfarms on 2/27/14, 5:44 PM

    Dear Busy Person,

    I know you get so many emails that it takes you a while to reply, so I thought I'd help you out by sending you more emails.

    Regards.

    Rebump.

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    Jest aside, nagging does work, so this technique probably would too, but I can imagine if someone started using it on me, it'd just filter the messages to the bin.

    The product does look very well executed. Best of luck.

  • by lutusp on 2/27/14, 5:34 PM

    Quote: "Rebump sends multiple follow-up messages to your email recipients for you. These automated emails are customized to appear as if you sent the email yourself."

    Wow -- they managed not to use the word "spam" anywhere on their site.

  • by alecsmart1 on 2/27/14, 6:20 PM

    I know some might accuse you of spamming but this is extremely useful. Been using boomerang but that only remind me and then I have to manually send them an email. I hope it remains free though.

  • by geminitojanus on 2/27/14, 7:29 PM

    The first time I see an email from this service, they will meet my permanent blacklist.

    This is absolutely, brutally intolerable. It's hard enough maintaining spam-free email without this nonsense.

  • by ezrameanshelp on 2/27/14, 5:31 PM

    This is a tool we built to use internally and are spinning off. We did the same with InVision App a while back.

    Rebump works with Gmail on Chrome/Firefox for now.

    Feedback treasured.

  • by Dorian-Marie on 2/27/14, 6:01 PM

    As someone in the feedback chat told me:

    If you want mutiple accounts, you will need to sign in with an account, then sign out (top right of https://www.rebump.cc/emails/home/), then sign in the other account, etc.

    Happy bumping

  • by uladzislau on 2/27/14, 5:42 PM

    Looks cool and I'd like to try it. A few questions for you:

    How does it work technically? Is the same first message sent every time? What is the feedback from people who are being "rebumped"?

  • by JTon on 2/27/14, 5:37 PM

    From the video: > You can easily monitor the status of each message you send and know if and when it gets read

    Huh? How?

  • by dalore on 2/27/14, 6:34 PM

    ... the more of a chance you have for a 100% response rate.

    sounds like it works 100% of the time, 50% of the time.

  • by joeblau on 2/28/14, 8:02 PM

    I hope Gmail updates it spam algorithm to catch stuff like this.