[bredren]

Solving problems around email has a wide audience.

After our startup launched a private and secure messaging service, we weren't able to drive easy and repeatable traction.

We broadened the appeal to include email privacy which not only got press but created a ton of sticky users. Eventually, we turned it into our first point of revenue.

Email allowed us to reach a wider audience while still preserving our focus on privacy. While we weren't technically "email first" it was a big second that ultimately served our primary focus.

[amirmc]

I'd like to know more about your startup but there's no info/link in your profile. I'm interested in privacy-related stuff.

[bredren]

Thanks for your interest. I'll add a link.

The startup is called Gliph. Gliph is a digital identity platform. Our goal is to allow people to communicate and transact with privacy and security.

https://gli.ph

https://gli.ph/s/privacy.html

Today, you can use Gliph to send text and picture messages with other Gliph users. It has a few benefits over other messaging tools:

- The messaging system is hosted, so you can access your account from either the iPhone, Android or Mobile web.

- Either party can delete messages from both sides of the conversation, delay messages, and set expiration on messages.

- The system allows you to be anonymous, we don't require entry of any personal data such as a phone number used by other messaging clients.

Gliph's Email privacy tool is called Cloaked Email. We debuted it in August of this past year. You can use a Cloaked Email address as substitute for your real one while signing up for websites. Cloaked Email:

- Helps protect you from data breaches.

- Allows you to communicate with sellers on sites like Craigslist using your normal email client, without revealing your actual address.

- Has Chrome and Firefox plugins to easily integrate email privacy into your web experience.

Some other points about Gliph and privacy:

- We don't log IPs except for rate throttling.

- We encrypt all personal data entered and set sharing to private by default. When you share data with another user, it is encrypted using public keys of both users.

- You can turn on a feature called Lockdown Privacy Protection, which removes password reset and makes your account data inaccessible by anyone without the password.

- We have a generous privacy policy that puts ownership of user data in user hands.

We launched in March of last year, and have an iPhone, Android and mobile web clients.

I'd be pleased to connect with you on Gliph. You can find me at Dice, Heart, Lightning.

Here are some more links:

iPhone app: https://gli.ph/iphone

Android App: https://gli.ph/android

mobile web: https://gli.ph/m

Company Blog: http://blog.gli.ph