Mailist App
A newsletter built from your own bookmarks! 📧 🚀
Mailist was a tool I needed to manage the chaos I had with my bookmarks. As a designer, I've learned to code and built a product by myself. Now doing my best to share it with everyone :)
Hey fellow Indie Hackers! 👋
We've cooked up something cool for you - Article Summarization is now available in our extension!!! 🎉
Ever felt like the internet is a giant, endless buffet of articles, and your brain is a plate that's just too small? Yeah, we've been there too.
Keeping track of all the juicy bits of info and finding them again later can be a real headache.
We've just added a zingy new feature to make your life even easier.
Pretty neat, right? If you haven't already, grab our extension and give it a whirl!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mailist-plugin/licmkngefgaochmpakpnekppagaimeea
I can't wait to hear what you think!
Keep hacking,
Marcin
After gathering your feedback on the first iteration of Mailist AI, I'm happy to announce that we are releasing the 2nd version, which is now fueled by GPT-4.
What is Mailist?
Mailist is a small web app and Chrome extension built for everyone who keeps saving bookmarks and forgets about them.
Once you save something for later in Mailist, the bookmark is added automatically to your personalised email newsletter and delivered once a week to your inbox (or more often, if you choose so).
In the free version, once the bookmark is opened from your email, it is automatically saved as read and thus won't be delivered to you anymore.
With Mailist AI, you can read the summary of a saved article directly in your inbox!
What does Mailist AI include?
Along with engaging summaries, we provide key takeaways in bullet points so it's easy to digest. That way, you can also use Mailist to "scan" the articles you don't have time to read.
The migration to GPT-4 allowed us to decrease the cost of the AI summaries, and now Mailist AI is available for only $9 / month.
After years (yes, years – go through our milestones if you are interested to learn more) of stagnation, I'm proud to say that Mailist has finally found the monetisation model, which looks like it's working.
It's not a crazy sum, but still something we can see, and we are getting close to covering all maintenance costs.
Recently we partnered with one of the newsletter ads platforms and started including sponsored links in our newsletters.
That paid off, and 50% of MRR is generated from the CPC ads stream.
The wait is over!
We are officially launching Mailist AI. A smart, AI-driven feature built on top of Mailist that "reads" your bookmarks and summarizes them for you.
Directly in your inbox.
Here's how your newsletter looks with and without Mailist AI enabled:
We built Mailist AI because we wanted to stop bookmarks procrastination and help you get the content of your saved articles directly in the Mailist email.
It's cool, seriously.
First, add a link.
Wait for your weekly Mailist newsletter.
Boom! The article you bookmarked is automatically summarised for you inside the email. So now you don't need to open the bookmark again; just read it directly in the inbox.
Let me know what you think!
TLDR; Mailist AI will soon be added to Mailist. An intelligent, AI-driven bookmark reader to save you time and kill your procrastination.
Read more here: https://mailist.app/mailist-ai-beta
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Bookmarks. How many of them do you still have unread?
But still, there are some bookmarks that I keep saving for later for three years now.
That's why we started working on Mailist AI (Actually, we almost finished it!).
We wanted to stop the bookmarks procrastination and help our users get the content of their saved articles directly in the Mailist email.
It's cool, seriously.
First, add a link.
Wait for your weekly Mailist newsletter.
Boom! The article you bookmarked is automatically summarised for you inside the email. So now you don't need to open the bookmark again; just read it directly in the inbox.
Join our waitlist today and get 30% discount when we launch: https://mailist.app/mailist-ai-beta
Personally, every day I add something to my bookmarks in Mailist to read later, when I have a free afternoon.
What about you? How often do you bookmark articles and never get back to them?
We are about to finish something amazing.
We want to help you get through your bookmarks which are still unread.
We want to use AI.
And we're gonna launch it in the coming weeks.
If you create your FREE account TODAY, we're gonna send PROMO codes to all our users.
How does it sound?
PS. Just take a look: https://mailist.app
👨👩👧👦 Userbase:
2,767 users [+ 2%]
1,538 subscribed to marketing emails [+ 1.04%]
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🥁 Usage:
204,780 links added [+ 2.86%]
1058 newsletters sent every week [+ 4.12%]
66 tags added to a link per week [+ 303%]
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💵 Financial:
$0 MRR and ~$50 of monthly recurring costs
We are heavily focused on the new feature (the big one) development, and we can see its impact on slower growth in the userbase. Fortunately, it looks like there is much more interest in the app usage as we've seen more and more links added and tagged.
That is super cool!
Thanks to recently released Safari Extensions, we were finally able to deliver our plugin to Safari users.
It took 15 minutes to migrate the plugin from Chrome to Safari. Thank you, Apple, for making this easy.
By using the extension, you can quickly bookmark any webpage and save it for later in your Mailist account.
We will remind you to read it later in your automatic, personalized newsletter. As always!
Big day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajdJoQRyPm8
Finally, we've added a new big feature: Notes.
From now on you are able to add text notes to your Mailist which you will later receive in your weekly newsletter.
Additionally, you can enrich your existing bookmark (or the one you are about to add) with a longer description, note for yourself. Maybe a summary of a bookmark and why you saved it.
Or, alternatively, Mailist can now serve as a reminder tool or a place to save your wish/shopping lists. Your call!
Nevertheless, it's free to use, so go ahead and give it a spin!
👨👩👧👦 Userbase:
2,712 2,664 users [+ 1.80%]
1516 subscribed to marketing emails [+ 1.02%]
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🥁 Usage:
199,080 links added [+ 5.69%]
1016 newsletters sent every week [+ 2.11%]
20 tags added to a link per week [- 34%]
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💵 Financial:
$0 MRR and ~$50 of monthly recurring costs
Our user base is steadily growing but we've observed a big drop in the number of tags added to the links per week. On the other hand, a lot of bookmarks have been imported and this has an impact on the tagging.
In the next 2 weeks, we are releasing a major update, introducing a brand new feature. Can't wait!