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0 pointslouwhopley1y ago0 comments

Haha, exactly this. I've built and successfully been using Unspam[0] for this reason since about a year ago. In corporate/business world, anything where SDR sales are involved this form of automated AI outbound mail has picked up a lot. Tools like Apollo automates this AI process (both finding leads to mail, and then crafting the mail).

For interest sake, users of Unspam that have a title of CEO on their Linkedin see about ~10% of all mail making it into their inbox be categorised as spam (leadgen, recruitment, or software dev services).

[0] https://unspam.io

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slhck1y ago

Just saw this, and as a small business owner in the B2B market, this sounds very useful. Gmail's existing spam filters do not reliably detect this type of marketing.

I wish your landing page had a simple "how it works" explanation with a screen shot or diagram, rather than forcing me to sign in directly, and also allowing the app to read *and* send emails. Also, I don't see any pricing?

Finally, signing up, I got an error:

Error 1101 Ray ID: 89d4e0957c2f5a44 • 2024-07-03 06:39:15 UTC - Worker threw exception

louwhopleyOP1y ago

Thanks for the useful feedback! Totally forgot that pricing was never added to the landing page → have added to the todo list to fix up.

Where in the process did that error occur for you?

I see in the logs that an error registered, but unfortunately no detail attached. I've beefed up the logging a bit in the onboarding journey on my side to see what could be breaking here if we try again.

Mind trying to log-in/sign up again? You can use "HACKERNEWS" as a promo code, which would make the first month free.

slhck1y ago

The error occurred right after granting permissions from my Google account. The permissions were granted but I could never access your application page. I just tried again, now I got an "Error handling OAuth callback" after granting permissions. Signing in again does not work either. (I did remove all of the app's permissions in my Google security settings before, so to Google it looked like the application was requesting all of its permissions again.)

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gpvos1y ago

Most likely, SDR = Sales Development Representative, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_development#Process

louwhopleyOP1y ago

Correct! :')

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0 pointslouwhopley1y ago0 comments

[0] https://unspam.io

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slhck1y ago

Just saw this, and as a small business owner in the B2B market, this sounds very useful. Gmail's existing spam filters do not reliably detect this type of marketing.

Finally, signing up, I got an error:

Error 1101 Ray ID: 89d4e0957c2f5a44 • 2024-07-03 06:39:15 UTC - Worker threw exception

louwhopleyOP1y ago

Thanks for the useful feedback! Totally forgot that pricing was never added to the landing page → have added to the todo list to fix up.

Where in the process did that error occur for you?

Mind trying to log-in/sign up again? You can use "HACKERNEWS" as a promo code, which would make the first month free.

slhck1y ago

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gpvos1y ago

Most likely, SDR = Sales Development Representative, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_development#Process

louwhopleyOP1y ago

Correct! :')

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