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Ajay Goel

Inbox, Spam, or Promotions? - See where your and your competition's emails are landing.

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Every email marketer wants to know what's happening to their emails. My new product is a free and FUN way to see where your emails are going, and where everyone else's emails are going. This is a public utility where everyone can see everyone else's results. Just send your emails to the addresses at the top, and watch the magic happen below.

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Ajay Goel
Maker
Hi Product Hunters! I've been in the email marketing game for 15 years and have finally built a tool that I always wished existed. This is an an easy, free, and public system to see where your emails are landing. Are they going to the Inbox, Spam, or Promotions folder? Using it is super easy. Send your email campaign to the 12 addresses at the top of the page, and then watch the magic happen below to see where your emails land across the test addresses. No forms. Nothing to sign up for. No credit cards. Completely free. Use whatever email marketing app you like. You don't need to reload the page to see results. The emails will just slide in to the rows, as they arrive at each account. Each account is a Gmail/G Suite account that's configured slightly differently. About half of them are connected to popular corporate spam filters like Barracuda, Symantec, and Mimecast. That way, not only do you see which Gmail folder your emails are landing in, you can also see if you're making it past that particular spam filter. But the coolest part of the utility is the ability to search for any brand, email service provider, or topic, and see where those emails are landing. For example, search for "MailChimp". Want to see where your competition's emails are landing? Search for your competitor's company name. (You might not get any results since the tool is new). But... Over time, the test addresses will be subscribed to more and more mailing lists and so will collect data on more and more brands. I've written a detailed guide to using the tool and interpreting the results here: https://www.gmass.co/blog/inbox-...
Angie
Hi Ajay, I like what you have built. I will make use of this myself and will pass it on to people I know. Sometimes emails end up in my spam box while they shouldn’t and this information will be valuable to my friends who have their own startups. Will you be offering this service for @outlook/hotmail.com addresses in the future?
Ajay Goel
Maker
@outlook @angeliquesocial Hey Angie - thanks for my first comment! For now, this will remain a Gmail-based tool only. It's generally accepted in the email marketing community that Gmail has the most sophisticated systems. So if you're getting email delivered there, and your email is making it past the external spam filters that I've added, you're probably good in most other places, like outlook.com, aol.com, comcast.net, and other places.
Matt Harney
Very cool
Ajay Goel
Maker
@matthew_harney Thanks man!
Thanh Pham

I like the simplicity of this tool!

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Easy to use and no frills

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None

Alex Balabanov
Do you believe that the tool output will be trustworthy enough over time? I guess the automatic filters can provide skewed results given the test mailboxes will only get promotional emails.
Ajay Goel
Maker
@akabalabanov The seed mailboxes will NOT only get promotional emails. It's not just email marketing campaigns that will be sent to the seed addresses. Lots of different types of emails will be sent, from transactional to marketing to person-to-person correspondence. I don't see why results would be skewed.