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Wrte.io — Email with a paywall. Charge for reading your email.
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@rrhoover actually we just started to send invites massively. Before we were testing “popular people” use-case. But it doesn’t work much. They don’t want to look arrogant.
Then I asked our subscribers how do they want to use it. I was surprised how brave some of them are:
- developer wants to charge his clients for extra corrections after the project is finished.
- asking a payment for a guaranteed reply within ‘x’ hours
- give this email to recruiters
- game idea that would use an email paywall (no idea what kind of game it could be :) )
- make from it kind of payment system. If someone want to buy a concert ticket or access to premium materials
@ivanpashenko @rrhoover some people want to use it like 1 time email - for service registration
@rrhoover from tweets:
"I love the write.io concept. I worked in adult for a long time and think adult models area HUGE market for this product. HUGE"
Hey product hunters! We are playing around with a paywall for email. We want to know how this new format can be used and how the old-good email experience can be changed with it. Some ideas to start with:
- Services based on wrte.io, like http://tinytask.io
- Charge for you attention (e.g. journalists could charge for reading pitches)
- Public address without cold emails. Small paywall price (think of a post stamp), money goes to charity
Wrte.io is in a closed beta now, but for Product Hunters it is available from today.
@ivanpashenko Not able to sign up with Stripe. I authorize the account and then hit Finish Registration and it says "not logged in"
[EDIT} Looks like it was tied to the fact that I hadn't confirmed my email. Should update your error message to reflect this case.
I think this could be a useful product -- kind of like a different iteration of Clarity.fm, where you pay for access/advice from experts.
@ivanpashenko It's not entirely clear. Just signed up for an account. As @ryanhoover says, I'm still kinda looking for the right use case.
This is an interesting psychological experiment more than anything else. I think even charging $0.05 would drastically deter people from emailing because the act of paying ANYTHING at all is psychologically significant.
That said; I really do like the notion of email as a completely open medium and siloing people behind paid walls feels a little wrong. Then again, the big companies do nothing but silo our personal information for the sake of monetization...
@cprins_ We have already whitelist for a few services. Which one do you want to see there?
I think I remember discussing this idea in the #startups slackchat, right? I really love it. I feel like it has a real spirit of experimentation. Good luck with it :) I'll be interested to see what use cases emerge.
@mostlyalia Thanks! I think I've missed this discussion. I'd love to look at it.
Hey, a new profit model for the tech press! The team at Upstart Business Journal had a pretty good laugh about using this to invoice flacks for pitches, but I'm not sure anybody is going to pay to land in a journalist's inbox. Plenty of hacks like us to choose from!
I'll be happy if you add paypal or something that non US can use , i can drive more then 20 orders a day , i a was looking for this !
@ilyashassani Thanks! We will think about it. But Stripe is going global fast. Hopefully it will be in your country soon.
@stvmcg Yes, it's alive for Product Hunters! Did you registered your account? If somehow it's not activated yet, let me know. I'll activate it manually.
Really interesting idea - I could see this working well for some kind of 'premium support' service for web developers or other experts to handle certain types of requests they receive.
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