📬 Mailman is an email assistant and Gmail plugin that shields you from unimportant emails — minimizing interruptions and making your days calmer and more productive.
✌️ Hey Hey Hey 😻 Product Hunters!
As @awilkinson shared, we built 📬 Mailman for anyone who finds themselves getting constantly pulled into email and generally struggling to manage their inbox.
So how does Mailman work? It’s simple:
☝️ Batch email delivery
Instead of constantly getting new emails, Mailman can deliver them every few hours to let you focus. Set Mailman to deliver your email at hourly intervals, a set number of times per day, or at specific times. Figure out what works best for you, then get back to the important stuff.
✌️ Set VIPs so truly important emails are delivered immediately
Add important senders, domains, or keywords to the VIP list, and they'll bypass our filters to ensure that you immediately see the things you need to.
🤟 Screen email from new senders to block distractions
Mailman blocks any emails from senders you haven't emailed with before, plus annoying newsletters, notifications, and other distractions. Once a day, Mailman sends you a digest that shows all the emails Mailman blocked, and you can choose how you want each sender treated in the future.
💌 Works with your favorite email app
Unlike email apps like Hey, Mailman plugs straight into Gmail, so you don’t need to switch email apps and risk losing features you depend on.
🎉 Product Hunt Launch Special Offer
This wouldn’t be a launch if we didn’t have something special to offer you folks: Use the code PRODUCTHUNT at checkout to get a 15% discount on your first year on the annual plan. On top of this, ALL NEW ACCOUNTS TODAY get a 45-day trial period (vs 21-day).
So, please take Mailman for a spin and let us know what you think! Your feedback and ideas are key to helping us shape the product roadmap.
😎 I am here for the next 24 hours answering all the questions that you might have.
I’d love to know: What’s your #1 biggest email headache?
@awilkinson@mohitmamoria gmail plugins that fight each other. Please tell me Mailman does not contribute to that issue. Also with Mailman I assume you can still "snooze" a message right?
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m really excited to share a product born from my own personal hell…
My inbox used to be a dumpster fire — a never-ending nightmare that haunted my dreams, with hundreds of new emails streaming in 24/7. It was easily my #1 source of stress, and I tried tons of things to make it better: Cool new email apps, fancy workflows and systems, the works. Nothing worked.
An older friend told me how he used to manage paper mail: “You’d get a huge pile of mail once or twice a day. You’d respond to it, then get on with your day. No new mail until tomorrow morning the Mailman comes.”
I realized I was doing it wrong: In reality, very few emails need an immediate response, and most can wait 24–48 hours. Not everyone gets as many emails as me, but I know that lots of friends and colleagues struggle with the same email headaches.
So, I teamed up with @mohitmamoria and the team at Z1 (www.z1.digital) to build Mailman: It’s like a firewall for your inbox, making it calmer and freeing up time for you to be more focused and productive.
We’ve been testing it with a small group of beta testers for a few months now, and I’m happy to report that everyone is reporting calmer inboxes and less stress all round.
@awilkinson@bvirlet That's true, Bruno. We've been verified by Google themselves for our privacy and security practices. Happy to share the report with you.
And unlike other products (like unroll.me or Gmail itself), we do not monetize your data. We directly charge our users a monthly/annual fee to keep the lights on. :)
@awilkinson@mohitmamoria Thanks for you reply. I do trust that you are doing the right thinkg. Thanks for having a clean business model. It's more a personal, philosophical stand, I guess, and a balance to find between convenience and risk. The more intermediaries, the more people you need to trust, the more attack surface you expose, and I find this difficult.
@awilkinson@bvirlet That's fair enough, Bruno. I totally understand your stand and wouldn't force you to do anything that goes against your philosophical stand. :)
@awilkinson@abhash_kumar2 Hey Abhash, thank you so very much. Really means a lot to our tiny team building Mailman! You're one of the people I look up to for product/launches. 😻
I'm one of the earlier users of Mailman and it's been a big upgrade to my email workflow. I’ve tried a ton of different email apps, plugins, hacks, etc to manage my inbox over the years. This brings together a few useful tools to help make triaging email in batches a lot easier.
It took a few days to test different delivery winows, set VIPs, and tune my screening settings, but now I’m spending a lot less time being pulled into email.
@alexheeton Hey Alex, really really grateful to have you onboard! <3 Yes, it could take a few days initially to get used to the email workflow.
Glad you stuck around! <3
I have been using the beta version for the last 1 month. Hands down, my life has never been easier. I get more than 100 emails every day and the majority are usually useless. I used to get distracted by the emails all the time but now I feel like my productivity has increased a lot. I have used many tools for my mail management in past too but Mailmail is honestly the best one.
@maninder_singh5 Thank you, Maninder, for your kind words. Really mean a lot to us! It could be tricky for the first few days to see fewer emails in your inbox. So glad your journey was smooth. You're awesome!
After using Mailman for a couple of months I'm really loving the sanity I get from spending less time being pulled into my inbox.
I've tried tons of email apps, plugins, hacks, and workflows, but this is the first that's actually helped me take a proactive approach to email.
@aidanhornsby Man man man! You deserve a HUGE thank you for all the help and feedback you've offered during the early days. We wouldn't be here without you! :)
@bigint Hey Bigint (love the name!). Right now, there are no plans. But probably sometime in 2021, we'll venture out in the Outlook space to see how to best offer the same features to Outlook users.
Gmail has a huge market and thus made sense for our small team to focus our energies there initially. :)
@naveenkumar Hey Naveen! Great question. So, we work with your existing Gmail and do not require to use a separate email service/client or to make major behavior changes. It plugs in seamlessly in your existing tools and workflow, and that appeals to our users the most. :-)
Of course, batched delivery schedule is an add-on.
@clarisa_guerra Truth be told, without the help from Z1, Mailman would be built on some bootstrap-based theme with a patched up logo. Your team outdid themselves in bringing Mailman to life.
@ch9may While building Mailman, I realized, email is here to stay. It just need proper treatment for each use-case that it is used for. 🚀
Thank you so much for your support, man!
@screenshake (first of all, love your username "screenshake")... Thank you so much, Saransh, for the kind words your support during out beta phase. We wouldn't be here without support of early users like yourself. 🤗🤗🤗🤗
@evan_tank1 Wow. You're one of the very few users who use only less than three delivery slots.
We are so grateful for your early support and love, Evan. :-)
I'm a late early adopter of Mailman - and given the parlous state of my email management over several years, I'm in a long-ramp to readiness. But even after a few days of training I can see a couple good benefits
- My inbox is more manageable thanks to a new noise filter pass before I see things to deal with. Even in the training screens I am triaging a bit faster.
- For some reasons, I've been bad at doing chunked email time - having this set on the filtering side has been a big help.
Are there areas to be better at for the product, not just me? Sure. We're early adopters and know that comes with the territory (and I will be sharing with the Mailman team once I can put context around them). But the immediate benefits are there also, and that's what I'm willing to pay for.
@esinclai Hey Eric. So happy to hear about your experience. For any detailed feedback that you might have for us, you can directly email me at mohit at mailmanhq dot com.
I'll be most the happy to understand your context and improve the product. Thank you really for taking out time to join the conversation. :)
I've been using Mailman in the beta and it's an amazing product, really helped with my productivity and it's so much nicer being able to manage emails on my terms.
I'll support any product that maximizes my productivity and work schedule. Mailman + Superman is a perfect combo to do just that. Thanks, @awilkinson and @mohitmamoria!
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