Mailmeteor
Send hundreds of personalized emails with Gmail.
Today we're adding our AI Email Writer feature to Mailmeteor for Gmail. Show us some support during our Product Hunt launch: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ai-writer-for-gmail
We’ve collected hundreds of spam triggers words in the last months and have created a simple tool to avoid writing email that lands in spam.
It’s totally free and consists of highlighting words that might be considered spammy in some context.
Feel free to DM me @frenchcooc if you have any questions.
Mailmeteor, the Google Sheets add-on that started as a side-project, is now a 4 million users application, just curated by Google to be part of their new "Recommended for Google Workspace" program.
The Recommended for Google Workspace program is a Google-curated list of secure, reliable, and well-integrated Google Workspace apps. There's only 12 apps in the Google Workspace marketplace that are recommended by Google...
We can't be more proud and thankful to Google. It's a huge reward for the team. Special thanks to all of our users that have shared feedback so we can make our product even better.
Email warmup has been trending lately in the email industry. When you start diving into email outreach best practices, you will likely be advised to warm up your email account to increase your email deliverability, in other words: increase your chances to end up in the primary inbox folder.
But which tool you should use and do you really need one? Find out on https://mailmeteor.com/blog/best-email-warmup-tools
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I’ve had similar deliverability headaches, and regular ip blacklist check https://www.inboxally.com/spam-database-lookup alerts saved me from a few nasty surprises. I liked having everything monitored automatically so I wasn’t scrambling after a drop in opens. Keeping my list clean and catching issues early made a huge difference, especially with Gmail being picky these days.
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Jumping in on this older post because I'm curious how others handle warm-up these days. I've noticed that mixing slow manual sending with small automated batches still works best for me, especially with new domains. Has anyone here seen better results with community-based warm-up tools lately, or are ISPs cracking down on them more?
Thanks to all the feedback from our users, we have recently added dozens of new features to Mailmeteor, both in our Google Sheets add-on and in the dashboard.
We have made so many improvements in the past weeks that I felt like we had to talk about it. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to list all the features and improvements that have been made recently to Mailmeteor. There are so many of them 😅. So here are the features that I’d like to share with you:
- Select a Google Sheets in the Dashboard
- Filter emails by opens/clicks
- Set fallback to variables
- Import unsubscribers
- One-click unsubscribe
When you become serious about emailing, one thing you want to prevent is that your emails end up in spam. But how can you make sure your emails don’t land up in the spam folder? Warming up your email account may be the solution.
Here’s what you’ll learn in this guide:
- what is warming up an email?
- why use an email warm up service? (and do you need one?)
- what is the best email warmup tool?
- how to warm up your email for free?
👉 Read on https://mailmeteor.com/blog/best-email-warmup-tools
Email is one of the most important tools in communication. Unlike chatting, emails take a while to get a reply, so it’s less likely for you to be able to gauge what the receiver is thinking. You need to give yourself every chance to succeed in getting your point across.
So today I am going to share 10 tips on how to better write emails, and make sure your emails don’t end up in the spam folder when using Mailmeteor.
Half a million users. A year after our launch, Mailmeteor reached the astounding figure of 500,000 users.
Mailmeteor also became the best-rated app of all the Google Marketplace, with over 2000 positive reviews. One of our main challenges is to limit the time spent on support while keeping the highest level of care for our users.
Hopefully, we can count on the vibrant indie maker community on this journey!
Today is a big day! Mailmeteor is live on Product Hunt.
Some could say that we took our time to make a PH. So why now?
First, we wanted the product to be solid, totally trustable and also have a very good understanding of the usage. Our users are now sending thousands of emails per hour, so I think we achieved that.
Second, doing a PH takes a lot of time! We didn’t figure it out at first. We thought about PH in August with a target to launch end of September. But then we started to read many articles on how to make it. There were countless of actions to make before the launch. We built so many spreadsheets, with list and list of tasks and contacts. Jean (@cuireuncroco) fine tuned the whole process and also managed to record a video in motion design (which is gorgeous and took a long time to make!).
Third, we never made a PH before but always dreamed to. We feel like Mailmeteor could be a good fit for the PH community. And so far it’s doing great! But we definitely know that it might probably change. 🤞
In the end, 3 months out of schedule, we are live on PH. Does it worth the effort? I’ll tell you Tomorrow. But at least we learned a lot and, above all, I now have a screenshot proving that (for a few minutes at least) we have been product of the day 😻
PS: here’s a link to our PH page - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/mailmeteor
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Congratulations. I hope the PH launch goes well for you. Number 1 at the moment lets hope you can keep top spot.
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We hope as well! Thanks for your kind words
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Well done guys, the product is really awesome.
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Big fan of your work man! Found it on reddit a few weeks/months ago.
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That's really nice tool man! I used to have MailTrack and Hubspot tools previously. I had to stop using them due to privacy concerns. Yours is truly standing out :)
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Looks great mate! Gave it an upvote - hope it stays number 1
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Congrats man! Nice work
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Thanks so much!
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Awesome work! Upvoted.
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Thanks a lot Levi! Really appreciate it 🙏
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Just to remember that later on, my finger hurts because of refreshing the page and contacting people all day long. Keep up the efforts! 🌠
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You're the man @Cuireuncroco
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This morning we'be been stuck in the nowhere land of the "Newest section". But in the end, we've made it to the featured front page. We'll have much interesting feedback to share throughout the day and tomorrow! In the meantime, we count on your upvotes 🌠
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Congrats, everything got super nice! May I ask why you decided to build this product in the first place? No offense involved. I use and used heavily many mail merge tools and I've to say that YAMM is far ahead compared to all the others regarding ease of use, features and price which is so low that it makes it hard to beat them and still having any profits when acquiring users. Then, YAMM has such a good exposure that it's hard from a performance marketing and SEO perspective to get any visibility for your own product. Finally, there is barely a lock-in in this model, I could switch within one minute to any other tool. So, is this business model not just a race to the bottom or do I miss anything?
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The key is that Mailmeteor is built as a muse (see Tim Ferris' concept)
We've built Mailmeteor firstly because I was a power user of YAMM myself, concerned about privacy issues and not 100% satisfied with their UX. I did not feel at ease giving access to my inbox data to an add-on like YAMM and wanted to try building a smoother and simpler product that was solving a pain I had in my daily job as a partnership manager. At some point, it became impossible to keep close relationships with each and every partner. Hence Mailmeteor.
The mail merge market is crowded with competitors, being in place for years. These companies have managed to create high margin business over the years, while not necessarily caring anymore about the user experience.
In these conditions, there is a gap for an outsider like us. The ambition is not to dominate the market at all, it's likely that we will never outpace YAMM with its 4M users & 10K ratings. However, we can manage to grab a significant share of new users and existing unsatisfied users from other add-ons.
The recipe is dead simple here: provide a better UX, at a lower cost (more generous free plan, affordable pricing) and focus on major concerns like privacy.
It works in our muse model because we have no need to generate millions to cover costs. We don't need to raise funds, nor building a team with a huge structure cost. What I love with the muse model is that ambition is much more modest than in a startup. However, if you do your homework, there are much higher chances of achieving your expected results.
For us, it all began with a sweet dream: be able to afford a nice restaurant or a holiday weekend with our friends every month 😇-
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Man, thanks for the extensive reply. How does Mailmeteor does solve the privacy problem other than YAMM?
Re your other points: yes, the market is crowded and most solutions have odd UIs but then again YAMMs way of just using Google Sheets and a mail draft in GMail is just by far the best, I tried all of them, unfortunately not yours yet and not wanting to sound arrogant but I can't imagine that your solution offers anything easier than YAMM. Btw, if you want some proper individual mail tracking on the side pair YAMM with Mailtrack. Both together are currently the best solution at the lowest price. Second best as a AIO solution would be MixMax but they are way too expensive and the product is often buggy. When it's working it's a solid experience, UI is re merges a bit too bloated.
Finally, I guess you will def make some money with this but you will hit the ceiling very fast because of the things mentioned earlier in our convo (lacking lock-in, competition, CAC>LTV, etc.) and I just was wondering, why launching something in this over-saturated space...
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Let us know when you have tried Mailmeteor ;-)
I was also a power user of YAMM before launching Mailmeteor.
It is never too late nor impossible to provide a better experience at a lower cost!PS: you will also notice when installing Mailmeteor that it does not require any permission to read, modify, delete your emails. Just compare the permissions with the ones requested by YAMM, you may be a bit surprised
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but how do you get emails out from my gmail account? via imap or pop?
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Via the gmail send API, hence via your Gmail account directly.
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ok but still, while the privacy risk is def smaller with your solution giving full access to an inbox like with other solutions, the PERCEIVED risk is the same i dare to say. do you think the avg joe will get that you ask for less permissions than eg YAMM. He just sees that he has to login with Google and some permissions are asked. he won't like it but he will agree because he dont get it anyway. I dont think that he will see and get that your solution is less risky. even if you ask me, i dont remember anymore the exact permissions mixmax, yamm or mailtrack asked me.
and the big downside is, i can't use Google Sheets which is quite versatile. I guess have to use some custom grid solution for maintaining my list with mailmeteor.
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Got my vote!
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OMG! Thanks a lot
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Congratulations Keep It Up.
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Today Mailmeteor has reached the 100,000 users milestone 🏆
It took 8 months to grow Mailmeteor to this stage. Months and months of experiments & learnings. Back in early October, we had published a milestone here for the 40k users milestone!
One of the most valuable lessons so far: the hardest part is not about building the product but finding efficient channels of distribution.
We're now able to shift our focus to 80% distribution / 20% building (at least we're trying to!!). Though it's always hard to find the balance, especially at the very beginning.
Next week's challenge is all about trying a new distribution channel: we'll be launching on Product Hunt.
Can we count on your upvotes? ☄️
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Congrats Guys, I have been using Mailmeteor a few times. It is easy to use :)
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Thanks Johnny, that's really nice to hear @jdogahmv
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That's is rapid growth. What channels have been efficient and deep?
Can you share MRR?
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:O
Congrats!!
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Been looking for EXACTLY this! Make that 100,001. Shoot me an email if you can Jean, I have an Instagram page that reaches 60-100k people per week (music artists). Could definitely work on pushing this to them since contacting blogs and journalists would be valuable to them!
email: Karan@avoranow.com
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Congratulations, @Cuireuncroco! That is such an impressive feat.
Could I get some tips on distribution when you have some downtime? I'm working on a Gsuite-enabled product and I think could learn a thing or two (or ten).
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Sure Saptarshi @sapsonic please get in touch with us, for example by Twitter DM! I'll be glad to share experience with you.
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Hi @Cuireuncroco, apologies for missing this by such a huge margin! I've followed you on twitter from my personal ID (/s*********ath), can you follow me back so I can DM you?
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And you just earned another user. I just sent my first campaign. You can definitely count on my upvote.
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Really glad to hear that Ian @IanMutuli
I'll reach out to you by email!
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Congrats Jean. Count my Upvote
Done with the google security assessment? Curious to know
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Thanks a lot Utsav! @utsavnakrani
Yes, we did pass several audits from Google to ensure Mailmeteor is secure and reliable. However, we have managed to avoid the audit from their third party security partners. It was way too expensive (>$20K).
We did so by ensuring Mailmeteor does not access any sensitive email data at all times, which in the end is a key differentiator compared to competitors.
I'll keep you posted on the PH launch!
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Great product! I'll be adding my vote on Product Hunt. Keep up the good work
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Thanks Isak, I'll keep you posted next week 🔥 @itsmebozzy
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Awesome guys, add my email to your list and Ill def upvote you guys.
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Thanks Gabriel! Let's keep in touch then. I've just discovered AudioStaq, great work! @gabethegeek
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Thanks! Appreciate the love.
I have an additional question. I currently use milkshake. I can track responses and schedule emails.
Do you have this type of automation in place or in the roadmap?
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Yes! thay may come in the future. However, currently, that would imply requesting access to user's inbox, which we want to avoid to ensure your data stay stafe.
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First off, congrats!
"One of the most valuable lessons so far: the hardest part is not about building the product but finding efficient channels of distribution."
^ this is something that so many creators seem to forget.
Curious, what were some of the experiments in distribution channels that didn't work for Mailmeteor?
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Great to see you guys succeed (just switched to premium last week). Big congrats 👏
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Thanks a lot Mike for your cheering words @humanismusic_
It's really cool to know we have indiehackers supporting us. You've been there throughout the journey, thank you for this! Hope you enjoy using Mailmeteor.
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Wow, and I was happy for growing to over 10k users in one year, this is insane.
Can you share the channel that most worked for you? I totally agree in finding the right channel is the key.
I think you will be disappointed with PH, it is extremely overated.
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hola Ariel @arielc
The most effective channel for us is the Gsuite marketplace. We are focusing on raising steadily the add-on's reputation by growing the review count. Then, we are pushing targeted outbound campaigns to segments we have identified among our users.Growing to 10K users is really impressive and should not be played down (especially if your % of paid users is high or if your average basket size is important). For example, only a small fraction of our users are paid ones at the moment since we offer a generous free tier (X2 compared to competitors).
Really interested to know more about your project and your PH experience. We're not expecting much from it but still, it required quite a lot of work. You're saying it is not necessarily worth it in the end?
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Hi, thanks for your reply! I imagined that it was the best channel looking at your previous publications and your app reviews, we are doing exactly the same in another google marketplace :)
Will PM you with more details, we can integrate our products.
I haven't launched in PH yet, I also think it's a lot of effort and I've seen the results from some other close founders, in general, investing a lot of time to being scored top 3 and getting around 1k-3k new visitors and 3 or 4 paid customers (the same day).
I suppose it can be a good strategy if you plan to be on the PH comparison pages adding up a good number of upvotes over time.
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Alright, I'll let you know about the launch results!
Definitely, I think one should not rely on Product Hunt only. However, I'm curious to try it and see if the efforts are worth it.I've spent quite some time working on the launch in the past months, producing a motion design video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccO5i3gQXSk), gathering our network, reading articles... It's time that you don't put elsewhere for sure.
Wait and see ☄️
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Hello Jean, congrats on this hugeee milestone!
I actually wrote an article discussing about the worthiness of Product Hunt and it's featured on Hackernoon. I think it can give you a bit of a different perspective: https://medium.com/hackernoon/product-hunt-is-it-worth-the-hype-c1b78f45be11
I don't deny the traffic coming from PH, but I also agree with @arielc that the more expectation we put on it, the more disappointment we might have (if it turns out sour). Still, if you're so inclined to hit the top list, here's my article to help you: https://medium.com/hackernoon/product-hunt-c-a-t-the-ultimate-approach-for-app-of-the-day-361b9193dde1
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Many thanks for your work Peter, that's definitely worth reading. @Petervu
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Wow! 100k users in 8 months. Truly impressive!
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thanks Shane @shanefromfargo
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thanks Anas, keep us posted! @iamanas22
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