Building a tool to tactfully get work emails

Hey folks!

I'm Yuval, and this is my first time going public on IndieHackers - I'm really curious to see how it goes :)

I'm building something called WorkPuppy (you can see a demo at workpuppy.io) - it's a tool that helps SaaS companies ask users for their work emails – once they have a good reason to give it to us.

At my previous startup, Simpo (I sold it late last year), I asked my team to outright block registrations with personal email addresses, fearing that those users were just "not serious."

It was a mistake.

I learned from talking to users that sometimes they sign up with a personal or secondary email address because they want to check a product out before giving away their important contact info. Who wants to get bombarded with emails by a service they don't find valuable?

Rather than preventing personal email registrations, I now believe that as B2B SaaS founders, we should absolutely allow users to "kick the tires" of a product (with whatever info they want to give us), and then tactfully ask for their info when they've seen value in the product and want to stay in touch.

There's an interactive demo on the main site (courtesy of the good folks at Arcade), so you can play with it, and I'd be delighted to talk to anyone individually who's interested in having a conversation.

Can't wait to hear what you all think and to chat!

p.s. also posting on HackerNews under the title "Tactfully ask users for their work email"