<story><title>I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-i-hit-115k-mo-with-a-status-quo-improvement-c45d11ad17</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gk1</author><text>This product lets people send up to 10,000 emails[1] at once to a cold list of contacts (ie, not opted in). Let&amp;#x27;s not kid ourselves: The use case is spamming.&lt;p&gt;The reason it&amp;#x27;s making $115k&amp;#x2F;month is because most other ESPs (Mailchimp, etc) don&amp;#x27;t allow spamming, so spammers flock to (and pay for!) products that look the other way.&lt;p&gt;To the creator: Good on you for creating a successful business. I hope you take these resources and do something positive for the world.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gmass.co&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;you-can-now-send-10000-emails-with-gmass-and-gmail&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gmass.co&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;you-can-now-send-10000-emails-with...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sametmax</author><text>&amp;gt; to the creator: Good on you for creating a successful business. I hope you take these resources and do something positive for the world.&lt;p&gt;Not good on him. It&amp;#x27;s an immoral business. I don&amp;#x27;t see why the hn community would endorse this just because it makes money.&lt;p&gt;If the emails were also a tool for privacy, decentralisation or some good objective behind it, i could see the pros and cons. But here it&amp;#x27;s all pros for him, and all cons for the rest of the world.</text></comment>
<story><title>I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-i-hit-115k-mo-with-a-status-quo-improvement-c45d11ad17</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gk1</author><text>This product lets people send up to 10,000 emails[1] at once to a cold list of contacts (ie, not opted in). Let&amp;#x27;s not kid ourselves: The use case is spamming.&lt;p&gt;The reason it&amp;#x27;s making $115k&amp;#x2F;month is because most other ESPs (Mailchimp, etc) don&amp;#x27;t allow spamming, so spammers flock to (and pay for!) products that look the other way.&lt;p&gt;To the creator: Good on you for creating a successful business. I hope you take these resources and do something positive for the world.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gmass.co&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;you-can-now-send-10000-emails-with-gmass-and-gmail&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gmass.co&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;you-can-now-send-10000-emails-with...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajaygoel</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re confusing a couple of issues. It&amp;#x27;s not that we&amp;#x27;re looking the other way. It&amp;#x27;s that I wanted to design a system where we don&amp;#x27;t have to look at all. GMass doesn&amp;#x27;t actually send any emails through its own servers. Emails are sent either through users&amp;#x27; own Gmail accounts or through a third party SMTP service like SendGrid. Those actual email server operators (Gmail or SendGrid) have pretty sophisticated systems to detect spammers. THEY will shut down a user&amp;#x27;s account before I could ever even notice it. I don&amp;#x27;t have to look, because the owner of the email server will do the monitoring.</text></comment>