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We need your feedback!

As most of you have seen during the last month, we’ve been looking for a buyer to take over the GuerrillaMail project. As we didn’t find a buyer with only good intentions, we decided to invest more time in this project ourselves.

Unfortunately the costs of operating this website have grown significantly over the years. We’re unable to provide this service if we don’t come up with a source of income.

We’re not about making loads of money, but hope to earn just enough to make it worthwhile for us to spending the time and effort in keeping this website running.

At this moment we are looking in the options to provide a premium service for our best-users.

    Secure SSL connection!
    Twitter-notifications (DM for new messages)
    API integration
    IM integration
    No Ads
    Multiple temporary e-mail addresses at same moment
    Expire e-mail addresses as you like
    etc.. (please comment with suggestions!)

Sounds great right? Please help us by giving an answer to our poll below. Thanks in advance!

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12 responses to “We need your feedback!”

  1. Hi!

    I really appreciate the Guerrilla Mail project & find the website very helpful, and I understand the need for making at least some money to sustain yourselves. I’m sure you’ve thought of it & maybe don’t like the idea, but I would personally be fine (and I think many people would be fine) if you put some ads on the left & right sides of the screen…preferably not ones that are all about porn and everything, but if there’s some non-porn ads on the sides of the screen, I would be completely fine with that in order to both keep Guerrilla Mail free for users and to help y’all make a little money off of it.

    Thanks again for everything! It’s amazing not having to give one of my actual e-mail addresses, letting me avoid a bunch of spam ;)
    -Jon

  4. Yea I would totally be down for ads also. I agree nothing porn related, just like google does ads for lots of sites maybe they will pay to put ads on this site also. Worth a try:) Thanks for being here Guerrilla Mail:)

  5. I think you need to copy the business model used by freeshell.org. Take one-time donations that gives an account forever.

    The “pool” of users is almost infinite, you will never run out of new registrations.

    Unregistered users will only get a “demo” account that can create a guerrillamail account that expires in 60 secs.

    Instead, those that send a one-time donation of $25 get the ability to log-in and create new accounts whenever one needs them.

    Sounds good?

    FC

  6. I tried to find a “Donate” link but couldn’t.

    Would you be willing to put some ads and place a “Help this project, donate” link in a very visible place? Preferably close to the “Get temporary email” and/or “Reload” links?

    I think it will be somewhat hard to ask people to subscribe (even for low prices like $1/month) to a service you get to use just a few times.
    Maybe if you offer one-time payments for a year of premium?

    Good luck on your project!

  7. Hello,

    I concur with Jon’s comments (posted July 28, 2009).

    GuerrillaMail fulfills a niche “customer need” and your current customers are grateful for your service.

    But, advertisement revenue should be your first choice. Then, if needed, a maximum enrollment fee of $2.00 (two dollars / low cost appeal) per month could be charged.

    Please remember that “quantity” (low cost appeal) of paying subscribers is the best business strategy.

    If you charge over $2.00 only those customers with a “serious” need will enroll, and they will cancel your service as soon as their “serious” situation changes. In turn, you’ll lose revenue that you’ve come to depend upon, and you’ll have a harder time generating a larger customer base since previous “free” customers have forgotten about your service.

    In addition, your strategy should be to start low at $1.00 (one dollar) and then in time (after 6-months) publish a Customer Appeal requesting a $.50 (that’s correct fifty-cents) increase. Think by increments of “cents” – not dollars. And, if needed, publish another Customer Appeal requesting….

    Remember, this is your “pet project” and you may regret the day you sell to a stranger. Yes, you could start again, but you will no longer own the title “GuerrillaMail” (unique and a memory jogger).

    “Thank You” for your free service and your noble mission to help fight Spam.

    Best Regards,
    Mary
    Business Consultant

  8. Here’s my feedback:

    The code, in it’s current form (minus premium features), for this project should be open-source. This way, more GuerellaMail portals can be provided free of charge, without being intimidated by an elite of psychopaths (those who pay for ‘premium’) who think they’re morally higher for contributing to something that fundamentally never supported the totalitarian system social networking (and it’s collaborating agencies; Government, Services, etc which increasingly are pushing these sites into political agendas and motivations, to purge users for mere expression of sentiment, etc) sites, and thus the main chest-grabbers on such sites (those with money and ill-intents), impose to keep track of you.

    I understand you want to make a business out of an idea, but this is wrong. You can still maintain the GuerellaMail image; lending the stepping-stones of the idea to others who can help propagate this movement.

    You don’t seem to realize how important you are, to the voiceless souls of society who are marginalized by their circumstances, ‘odd’ ways of thinking and consequentially, ability to rationalize anonymity as a quintessential right. We don’t have that much money ourselves. What we can do is run such portal spin-offs out of what little pocket we can to continue the propagation of the right. I don’t want to see you selling out.

  9. Hey, why don’t you make users watch a video beforehand, you could make it flash and set in full screen mode, if the user exited the full-screen before the ad was done they would not get an email.

  11. + release code under GPL license

    + allow users to CNAME domains to yours for greater flexibility

    + suggest users WHITELIST your domain for ads (as long as you agree not to run flash ads)

    ** forced ads will simply become a circumvention challenge … you’ll lose

    + cost should not exceed a few dollars annually. contrast GM with what’s offered by sneakemail ($) and spamgourmet (free)

    + (have someone) develop a firefox extension

    ** push for Spam Control integration https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8057 — more exposure = more ads

    keep in mind many people use yahoo- or gmail AS disposable email: they are both free.

    yahoo currently offers integrated disposable email as a premium feature.

  12. I think you should consider going after internet marketing people like myself. For example those webmasters that use automated software to bookmark their sites would benefit from disposable email addresses – or better, a high number of email addresses from multiple server sources, so that they could mutiple bookmark their own sites using a selection of random user accounts at random intervals. Sort this, you’ll have a winner on your hands.

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