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.<p>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.<p>Given its success, I've decided to package and share Unspam with the broader community, evolving it into Unspam.io.<p>How it works:
1. Hook up your Gmail
2. Unspam monitors received mail in the background
3. Unsolicited emails are labeled and archived<p>Please try it out and let me know your feedback. What would you improve? <a href="https://unspam.io" rel="nofollow">https://unspam.io</a><p>---<p>[0] <a href="https://rootplatform.com" rel="nofollow">https://rootplatform.com</a>
[1] PS: I value privacy intensely. Unspam doesn’t record, store, or train on your emails. No need to.
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.<p>Btw, there is an open source app doing the same called inbox zero.
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"