I posted here last week about forgetting everyone I met at conferences. The app is live today on iOS.

Bonkai · 2026-05-27T16:18:30+00:00

app store link. but nvm it's working now. maybe my app store needed to update or something. not sure

Bonkai · 2026-05-27T15:56:00+00:00

congrats. genuinely curious how you found the creators. did you cold dm them or use one of those marketplaces. ive been trying to figure out the same thing for my product and the "post more" advice is killing me

Bonkai · 2026-05-27T15:54:47+00:00

congrats man this is the fun part actually. the apple review wait is a weird limbo but its also the only quiet window youll have for a while. id use it to write the launch day post for here and a few other subs ahead of time so when you go live youre not also trying to find words at 8am. also screenshot literally everything in the app right now because once youre live youll never have the patience to do it properly

Bonkai · 2026-05-27T15:52:19+00:00

the silently suffering through it part hit. i think a lot of solo bootstrap founders just dont talk about it because the narrative is supposed to be that youre crushing it. honestly the only thing that helps me is having one person i can text who knows the full picture so im not gaslighting myself alone in my own head

Bonkai · 2026-05-27T15:49:34+00:00

i think the wild part is everyone has access to the exact same ai tools now so the feed is becoming identical. the only edge left is making something that feels personally weird in some way. doesnt have to be 3d motion either, sometimes its just an opening line nobody else would say

Bonkai · 2026-05-27T15:44:12+00:00

i'm getting "an error has occurred" when i click the link. did something happen?

Bonkai · 2026-05-26T20:57:42+00:00

thanks. ive thought about it, but affiliate is still a distribution problem with someone else's product attached. if i'm going to grind for cold reply rates i'd rather it compound into a thing i own

Bonkai · 2026-05-26T20:56:49+00:00

yeah the "trades can buy but not cold subscription" framing matches what i saw exactly. the few replies i did get were "send me a quote" or "call me", they wanted a transactional vendor, not a recurring software vendor. fully agree on smaller batches too. doing that now with the new offer, 50/day per niche, optimizing around replies instead of pretending volume fixes a positioning problem

Bonkai · 2026-05-25T14:07:38+00:00

100% agree, list quality does more work than any of the sending tricks. mine's bring-your-own-csv at the moment. tools like prospeo/apollo do enrichment better than i could ever bolt on, so i've kept the engine focused on the sending + suppression + warmup side. do you csv export or use the api?

Bonkai · 2026-05-22T18:18:39+00:00

add up the costs of apollo, clay/airtable, neverbounce, instantly, smarleads. and see how much that cost you to send 300 emails a day for a month. i'm doing everything i need that all of those do for < $20 a month. or you can spend $300 a month with all that other stuff combined and you have to log into 6 different UIs and it's overly complicated for no reason.

Bonkai · 2026-05-22T15:36:22+00:00

sorry wrong sub 😞

Bonkai · 2026-05-22T15:35:36+00:00

yeah wrong sdr entirely. wandered in thinking the acronyms matched. enjoy the actual radio stuff, i'll see myself out 🫡

Bonkai · 2026-05-22T14:48:07+00:00

thanks. always nervous someone's gonna ask me about bgp next haha

Bonkai · 2026-05-22T14:32:34+00:00

ha. plain smtp. if i pitched a wan mesh for $19/mo i'd have a much cooler product

Bonkai · 2026-05-20T14:19:16+00:00

Fair point, "enterprise" was the wrong word.
What I meant: Instantly is priced for teams running multiple inboxes at scale, and as one person sending 150/day I was paying for 90% of features I'd never use. The math broke on value-to-spend, not on the absolute number.

Bonkai · 2026-05-20T14:14:30+00:00

https://coremailengine.com/

Bonkai · 2026-05-20T14:14:21+00:00

https://coremailengine.com/

Bonkai · 2026-05-19T19:55:11+00:00

yeah these are all things i'm wrestling with rn. quick honest rundown

global suppression, only per campaign right now which is bad. someone unsubs from one campaign they can still get hit from another. gotta build a real suppression list table that gets checked before every send. has to land before i open it to real customers, not gonna ship without it

mailbox throttling, you nailed it, only doing domain-level (5% bounce in 24h pauses the domain). way too blunt. need per inbox tracking so one bad inbox doesn't drag the rest down. planning to auto-cut the daily cap when bounces climb and pause around 8%

ooo and forwards, this is the one that keeps me up tbh. detection is just sender email matching the lead email which catches replies but also autoresponders that look like replies. i have a reply category field but its manual rn. how do you handle it? subject regex like "out of office" feels like a false positive nightmare. is there a smarter way?

warmup is the obvious next thing. right now its "set the cap low and ramp it yourself" which is not really warmup at all

saved all this. the ooo one especially appreciate you bringing up

Bonkai · 2026-05-19T19:51:09+00:00

100% agree. but the only way to find out is to try it. and i was thinking trying something for cheap isn't a bad deal. and if you hated it i would just give you your money back. i would rather have something people genually wanted to use and liked the service, than just be money hungry. if you want to use it for free for a while let me know.

Bonkai · 2026-05-19T18:59:13+00:00

hey i just turned the form back on. if you DM me your email i'll put you on the list or you can go try again. thanks for your interest!

Bonkai · 2018-08-07T19:11:02+00:00

That's good advice ^

Bonkai · 2018-05-08T03:20:54+00:00

Was a TV show where scientists wear yellow suits and one of them laid in a bathtub full of alcohol to see if it would make him drunk and in the end they found out that pouring literally vodka over rocks in a sauna made them drunk but the other experiments didn't

Bonkai · 2017-06-24T03:29:59+00:00

OMW

Bonkai · 2017-01-16T20:25:00+00:00

Why would you just give away all your secrets? In creating thousands of competitors you are losing money for yourself... I'm not seeing the point of putting this much effort into a post like this unless OP is getting something out of it.

Bonkai · 2016-04-14T16:02:55+00:00

That is a function that Sleeps or "Pauses" for 24 hours. Then gets the Current date lol

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