I've just realised that Gmail charges yearly security assessment 🤦🏽

Hey guys,

I'm building my cold outreach platform (which is amazing, but won't share it here - it's not my purpose to use this as a marketing platform).

Today, after a month of working on it and submitting my app to Google (Gmail API) for review, I got response from them that we need to pay between 10k and 75k USD after our app reaches 100 users.

This is obviously a huge hit for me - I'm a solo app builder and paying 5 digits for security assessment every year, even having 100 users who pay a lot of money, is not something that will give me a lot of profitability.

I got an option to:

Raise initial prices a lot
Use IMAP and SMTP
Let users to set up their own internal application and use it with my service (I'd help with this one on 30-minute calls)

How comfortable would any of you be with sharing username and password with my service (bear in mind, this is meant to be used with your side email purely for cold emailing, not the main one)? Encryption would be top notch - but what are some of the points to prove this to my users (IMAP and SMPT will require email and password to be entered).