I recently migrated a website to a new domain , the previous hosting had email included so I needed to redirect the emails. I thought that changing MX dns records would suffice but it turned out that some server has to do the actual redirection to the new domain.
I think there may be a gap in the market, the only services I could find where either very expensive ( mailchimp ) because they offer more than just redirection or where completely free ( forwardemail.net) . The free solution might have been fine for personal use but I was doing the migration for a paying client and it just didn't feel right.
Could this be an opportunity ? Building the service seems some what straightforward, but I've heard there are complex technical issues for e-mail to work ( being listed as spam , need for rotating ip addresses ?? )
Offering only redirection service could be a good niche ?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated !
Take this as jafopinion, but...
I integrate with AWS Simple Email Service at my job, and there are a lot of details around sender reputation to prevent you from getting blocked/dropped from your service.
I use Zoho for this for my side hustle, because the price is excellent.
I don't think there is an obvious niche here, but I could be wrong.
Thanks for the comment ! Perhaps more validation is necessary. I checked several e-mail services ( I think I did try soho) and another problema was that I needed to forward several addresses and that added up the price too much ( I am in Mexico so perhaps the price seemed higher to me because of the usd-mx conversion ).
Perhaps even branding the service as having a custom domain email forwarded to your gmail account might attract non-dev users... I dont know , still playing around with the idea
Well, since a good and free alternative already exists... I don't think this would be a good niche for a paid alternative.
I was thinking that there might be people that don't feel comfortable using a free open source solution for a professional application but would prefer a cheaper solution to other services that offer more than just redirection