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Front Page
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Profile Page
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Inbox
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Message
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Account Page
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Complete Email Page
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Email Response
Inspiration
Email is free to send, yet expensive to receive. Which means most email goes unanswered. There is currently no incentive for recipients to read & respond to emails and no way for senders to provide that incentive. Send Wall solves that problem.
I built Send Wall so email senders can pay recipients for reading & responding to their email. Our pay wall also allows recipients to filter out non-sense from their inbox while getting paid to respond to emails from people who respect their time.
Personally, sending emails to investors is frustrating on both ends. I wanted a way to show that I respect their time and that I'm serious about what I've built. Send Wall allows me to do that.
What it does
Send Wall is essentially a marketplace for email responses. We charge individuals who want to send emails to people outside of their normal networks. They are only charged when they receive a response from the recipient.
Send Wall also allows you to provide a public email address that blocks junk email from getting into your inbox. We instantly respond to every email and inform them they must pay to have their message sent to the recipient.
How I built it
Each user creates a username@sendwall.com email address and they also have a http://sendwall.com/username profile. Once someone emails their Send Wall email, we parse the email using IMAP and respond to the sender. They then complete their email using Stripe CC authorization and we pass the message onto the recipient. Once the recipient responds to the message, we capture the amount and send that money to the recipients account balance.
Challenges I ran into
Deciding on how to handle the requests was the most difficult challenge. Once that was decided I was able to implement the IMAP and email completion process. Most of the technology was straight forward.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Parsing the IMAP and responding accordingly.
What I learned
Digging into IMAP email parsing and making it work for multiple emails at once.
What's next for SendWall.com
Getting users and feedback. Building in a reputation & review aspect so users know more about the individual on the other end.
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