This is more of a general market question: what kind of companies convert from cold email these days? My personal inbox simply doesn't receive them, and if I ever receive a cold email in my professional inbox, I immediately report it as spam.
My golden rule is: if I didn’t give you my email address and you’re sending bulk commercial email to me, you are a spammer, you immediately get reported as spam, and you get put on my shitlist so even if you reach me some other way, like from an advert or connection, I won’t buy from you.
If you are sending commercial email to me, the absolute bare minimum I need from you to distinguish you from a spammer is to know how you got my email address. This is something that the spammers never provide.
Services like this all seem to be aimed at black hat spammers who buy emails without consent and who I definitely don’t ever want to email me. Note how there are features intended to evade spam filters listed, but absolutely nothing about consent, opt-in, things like that.
The links in the footer: Privacy Policy – dead link; GDPR – dead link; Cookie Policy – dead link.
The reason why these services need to spend so much time talking about deliverability is because people report them as spam, which rightfully harms their deliverability.
Actually, cold email is actually recommended by Y Combinator. They say it "is a necessary tool for helping build your startup"
It is just challenging because of technical aspects and lack of knowledge. We're starting with cold email infrastructure, but we'll evolve into a full-stack platform, including help to find, enrich leads, prepare high-converting sequences, etc. All without the technical BS (and costs) of tools like Clay and similars.
After years battling Google Workspace for cold outreach — bans, poor deliverability, expensive pricing, painful setup, and scaling issues — we decided to build the infrastructure we always wished existed.
We previously built and scaled TheChecker, an email deliverability SaaS used by Netflix, Mojang (Minecraft), and 6,000+ paying users worldwide. It was later acquired and became Emailable.
Now we’re building MailDock — a fully-managed, plug-and-play mailbox designed specifically for cold emailers.
It replaces Google Workspace seamlessly, with no changes to your existing workflow.
It’s like having a deliverability expert on call 24/7, monitoring, optimizing, and proactively fixing issues — for just $2/mo per mailbox.
We’re still early, but some tests showed very promising results and cost savings.
Would love your feedback, questions, and brutal honesty.
I have no use for this but my first thought is wondering how safe the features like InfiniteSpin are from hallucinations. That’s assuming it’s using an LLM of course.
This is aimed only for legit B2B email outreach. We have abuse detection systems in place and monitor it closely. Accepting and following the Anti-spam Policy is mandatory. Let's not burn this ultra-high ROI B2B channel. :)
1shooner|9 months ago
JimDabell|9 months ago
If you are sending commercial email to me, the absolute bare minimum I need from you to distinguish you from a spammer is to know how you got my email address. This is something that the spammers never provide.
Services like this all seem to be aimed at black hat spammers who buy emails without consent and who I definitely don’t ever want to email me. Note how there are features intended to evade spam filters listed, but absolutely nothing about consent, opt-in, things like that.
The links in the footer: Privacy Policy – dead link; GDPR – dead link; Cookie Policy – dead link.
The reason why these services need to spend so much time talking about deliverability is because people report them as spam, which rightfully harms their deliverability.
bernardohcr|9 months ago
Actually, cold email is actually recommended by Y Combinator. They say it "is a necessary tool for helping build your startup"
It is just challenging because of technical aspects and lack of knowledge. We're starting with cold email infrastructure, but we'll evolve into a full-stack platform, including help to find, enrich leads, prepare high-converting sequences, etc. All without the technical BS (and costs) of tools like Clay and similars.
Here is a video that might help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kh_fpxP1yY
Here is the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-convert-custome...
bernardohcr|9 months ago
We previously built and scaled TheChecker, an email deliverability SaaS used by Netflix, Mojang (Minecraft), and 6,000+ paying users worldwide. It was later acquired and became Emailable.
Now we’re building MailDock — a fully-managed, plug-and-play mailbox designed specifically for cold emailers.
It replaces Google Workspace seamlessly, with no changes to your existing workflow.
It’s like having a deliverability expert on call 24/7, monitoring, optimizing, and proactively fixing issues — for just $2/mo per mailbox.
We’re still early, but some tests showed very promising results and cost savings.
Would love your feedback, questions, and brutal honesty.
m82labs|9 months ago
collin128|9 months ago
What has deliverability been like?
guluarte|9 months ago
bernardohcr|9 months ago