[mootothemax]

Arguably the one thing missing from Gmail right now is the ability to pick up the phone and speak to someone when something isn't working.

If you can offer that level of support at the same time, I can't see any reason for a company not to give you money.

Oh, and don't be discouraged by the people saying "no, never!" You can use third parties for handling spam, and it'll be easy enough to get mail onto peoples' phones via IMAP or Exchange. The thing to remember is that plenty of techies will say "no" because they see email as a free service. Regular consumers - and companies in particular - will be much more open to giving you money.

[jubari]

Thanks for the kind words.

Actually: Most of the points you raise have been solved. MailGun has (as far as i can tell after a week of usage) a great spam filter and supports IMAP.

To be honest: I wouldn't even consider building the email infrastructure part myself.

[mootothemax]

To be honest: I wouldn't even consider building the email infrastructure part myself.

Good plan, especially when there's no good reason to do so.

In all honesty, I didn't go over the technical details you provided in any detail; I just got a bit upset reading the number of "I wouldn't pay for that!"-type responses.

The thing is, I've previously seen a lot of people here claim that there's no money in time tracking tools, or any other market when, plainly, these markets do make a large amount of money. I want to emphasize that any pricing advice here should be taken with a pinch of salt. And when it comes to people who would never pay for a given service, discarded entirely ;)