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Leave Me Alone - Easily unsubscribe from spam emails πŸ’Œ

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Leave Me Alone is an email unsubscription service, with a focus on privacy.

Simply connect your Gmail account and you will see all your newsletters, subscriptions and spam, which you can then unsubscribe from with a single click.

Take back control of your inbox by getting rid of the subscription spammers.

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Danielle Johnson
Maker
Hey Product Hunt! ✌️ I’m Danielle, one of makers of Leave Me Alone. The other is my partner @jamesivings πŸ‘«. Thank you so much @abadesi for both hunting us and also being one of our first customers! πŸ’› β€” Leave Me Alone is an email unsubscription service which lets you see all of your emails in one place, and unsubscribe from spam with a single click. πŸ’­ Inspiration James and I find managing emails a huge drain on time and productivity. Spam emails plagued us daily and we wanted a service which would show all of the email lists we were subscribed to and allow us to unsubscribe easily. πŸ™…β€β™€οΈ Problem We found a few services that would help us unsubscribe from emails automatically for free, but a closer looks shows that’s because they make their money by selling all of your data for marketing purposes. 🀒 πŸ›  Solution Faced with the dilemma of a messy inbox or all of our data being exploited, we decided to build our own service and make it privacy focused. Leave Me Alone was born! 🐣 With Leave Me Alone you can: βœ‰οΈ See all of your subscriptions, newsletters and spam emails in one place πŸ‘‹ Unsubscribe from unwanted lists with a single click πŸ’Œ Favourite senders you want to keep πŸ• Set a reminder to scan again Unlike our competitors, we wont ever sell your data (in fact we don't even store any email content). We also actually unsubscribe you from emails rather than just moving them to trash, so those subscriptions are gone forever, even if you decide to stop using our service. Leave Me Alone is a paid service (so that you know we don't need to sell your data to keep afloat), but we've tried to keep it as fair and affordable as possible. A single one-off payment allows you to perform a scan on your inbox for spam received in the last 1-6 months, and unsubscribe from as many as you like (try and beat our high score of 316)! To celebrate our launch day we're offering Product Hunt users a special discount of 20% off any scan. Just use the coupon PH_HATES_SPAM when you get to the payment screen πŸ˜‡ β€” πŸ‘« About Us James and I are a couple of travelling indie makers. We have built Leave Me Alone without funding and completely in the open (read more here). Leave Me Alone is proud to be an open startup. You can see all of our revenue, users, and other stats on our (open page)! πŸ˜‡ Honourable mentions Thank you so much to @iamarnob and @mshra_ji for creating our absolutely incredible logo GIF. Thank you to our every one of our beta testers and early adopters for your help making LMA a service which has helped over 500 people already. Thank you to @dinuka_jayasuriya for creating Makers Kitchen which provided us with a wealth of help and suggestions. Thank you to @marie_dm_ for founding Women Make which has been fantastic support. And thanks to YOU for reading this far! We will be here and on Twitter all day if you have any feedback, questions, or want to say hello, we’d love to chat! - Danielle & James
Danielle Johnson
Maker
@m1guelpf Thank you Miguel!
Arnob Mukherjee
@jamesivings @mshra_ji @dinkydani21 Pleasure working for *Leave me alone*, You guys are doing some great job and also congrats on the PH Launch!
Danielle Johnson
Maker
@iamarnob Thank you! And thank you so so much for making our kick-ass gif! ❀️
Rupak Mishra
@jamesivings @dinkydani21 @iamarnob it was fun working for *Leave me alone*, It's an awesome product. Congrats on the launch!
Danielle Johnson
Maker
@mshra_ji thanks again Rupak πŸ™
Abadesi
Hunter
I actually discovered this around New Year's via a tweet from @anthilemoon -- it came at the perfect time as I wanted to start 2019 with a much cleaner inbox than 2018. It worked like a charm at a bargain price and excited to share it with PH now!
Danielle Johnson
Maker
Thanks again @abadesi! And thanks to @anthilemoon for that discovery tweet πŸ˜ƒ
Mads Hensel
I had a few bad or unsatisfying experiences before which make me very suspicious about services like this. But I got convinced pretty quickly that this is trust worthy, both from reading there mission and reason why they are makes. Besides that I like their transparent business model. Let's see how much $8 can help me get my inbox back in a state where I don't ask people to text me if they have sent an important email. Good luck both of you πŸ˜„
Mads Hensel
One thing will you support imap at some point? My private domain is where I have most spam issues.
James Ivings
Maker
@madshensel Yessss, we've had a few people mention imap/pop support. I'll look into this for sure.
Danielle Johnson
Maker
@madshensel So awesome to hear Mads! I hope we can help you get some inbox sanity back - having to use texts sounds like a nightmare πŸ˜…
Mads Hensel
@dinkydani21 It has is benefits, but mostly it's just adding one more element in a busy everyday life that hijacks your cognitive capacity :)
Mads Hensel
@jamesivings Awesome, how do I get notified about this. You could send me a email, but you know... the issue with that ;) I guess I could follow you on twitter?
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
I absolutely love LMA! My inbox really needed a clean up, and it did a fantastic job. Plus, @dinkydani21 and @jivings provide timely, friendly support in case you need extra help. It's nice to get rid of all the spam so you can focus on the few subscriptions I actually appreciate. πŸ™Œ
Danielle Johnson
Maker
@anthilemoon πŸ™ Thank you SO much Anne-Laure! We'll be here all day!
Dinuka Jay

I've been using LMA for over a month now I think. Been a participant in its beta program and let me just say that the number of spam emails I've unsubbed using this is definitely in the range of 80-150. My inbox is clean and it's all thanks to LMA. Highly recommended

Pros:

Does what it says it does to its fullest potential and more

Cons:

Literally none at all

Pradip Khakhar
This is one of my fav products. I cleaned out so many unwanted emails, loved watching LMA grow. Love that LMA is privacy first. Congrats Danielle and James building an amazing product that is so useful.
Danielle Johnson
Maker
@pradipcloud Thank you so much Pradip for your kind words and being such an awesome customer! I hope your inbox stays clean for a long time now πŸ’›
Julian
This SaaS is literally a 𝐰𝐒𝐧-𝐰𝐒𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐨π₯ 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞. Newsletters that don't get a lot of love get mercifully executed; ESPs have less work monitoring who has bad email practices; those who send newsletters have an easier time cleaning their lists off unengaged subscribers; and Gmail now has a helping hand to eliminating bad opens (lol, kinda). Hopefully this will be available for other ISPs, but I understand that this could be hard. And if you support indie making, this product is made by indie makers and for everyone :).
Danielle Johnson
Maker
@jic94 Amazing words - thank you! πŸ™ We hope to support more providers in the future. There's a few requests on the public roadmap you can vote or suggest more for us https://leavemealone.xyz/roadmap
Steph Smith
I LOVE LMA. It is sooo seamless and I love that it's a privacy-first product. When you think of the cost savings of not going through your email every morning it's sooo ROI positive. 🀯 I believed in it's value to so much that I ended up buying a subscription for my entire team for the holidays. They had similar feelings about LMA and some ended up buying additional gifts for their friends. Excited to see it finally up on PH!
James Ivings
Maker
@stephsmith Thanks Steph! Our #1 customer right here! πŸ’―
Danielle Johnson
Maker
@stephsmith 😍 incredible words thank you so much! We wouldn't be here without your support! And as @jamesivings said without a doubt our #1 customer πŸ˜„
Richard Goodwin
@dinkydani21 Minor typo, on the estimate progress box it says "Asking Google to estimating your mails". Otherwise quite slick so far. Love the detection of success/fail on the unsubscribe! (Though you might wish to add a spinner while the screenshot loads; sometimes the delay is confusing.)
Luke Chadwick
@dinkydani21 @rgoodwin It's one of my favourite features. So many diverse and annoying unsubscribe variations, and this tool was so well thought through that it showed when it couldn't verify success.
James Ivings
Maker
@dinkydani21 @rgoodwin haha there's nothing right about that sentence. We'll get that sorted thanks! And thanks for the suggestion, I think it's already on my list but if not then I will get it done ASAP.
Richard Goodwin
@dinkydani21 @jamesivings Thanks! I'm having some problems with my account and scans, and I can't seem to type into the chat window, but I'm guessing you're getting a ton of traffic at the moment so I'll let it settle for a few hours.
James Ivings
Maker
@dinkydani21 @rgoodwin That's no good! The servers are running quite hot but scans still seem to be going through. I'll DM you and we'll try and sort it.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Crazy to realize how many spam subscriptions I had. My inbox is so much cleaner now!

Pros:

Simple, easy to use, clean interface + great support.

Cons:

Only supports Gmail for now but wouldn't be surprised if more platforms are supported in the future.

Jordan Krueger
Can you help me understand how this product unsubscribes you from "spam", which is generally from senders that don't respect unsubscribe links?
James Ivings
Maker
@jordankrueger A fair question. You're right in that this isn't a spam filter, it wont protect you from one-off spam emails that are not part of a subscription service. By "spam" we're really referring to all "graymail" - subscriptions that you once subscribed to that you no longer want, or subscriptions that you may have been subscribed to against your will. We should probably put this in the FAQ so thanks for asking!
Jordan Krueger
@jamesivings Yeah, you shouldn't conflate the two as you're doing above. Just because you no longer want email from a sender does not mean that it's spam, as long as there's an easy unsubscribe process. Any bulk sender "following the rules" provides a clear unsubscribe process. Spam is email that you did not sign up for and from your answer it appears that you have no way of actually unsubscribing someone from that unless the sender is going to respect your unsubscribe request, which seems unlikely to me. So the advertising here is taking some liberties.
James Ivings
Maker
@jordankrueger Yes you're probably right. However to most users "spam" means any emails that they don't want to receive anymore. Including both one-off spam and all graymail. We'll have a think about how better to represent this on the homepage. Thanks for your feedback!
Luke Chadwick
@jamesivings @jordankrueger some of this is spam though. I frequently end up on email lists "because I interacted with X service". Sure I can click unsubscribe and they'll remove me from that list, but it's spam because I never agreed to be mailed in the first place. I can't count the number of "Bob/Jane from X Startup: How are you finding our service? Tips for getting started" automated emails that I've gotten. Even if I have no desire to be part of an on-boarding flow. Hell, I somehow ended up on a US democrat/left mailing list that seems to just get passed onwards and onwards (i.e. different causes). I'm Australian, so it's pretty obvious (to me at least) that I shouldn't be on those mailing lists. This is spam, even if it is "well behaved legal spam".
Jordan Krueger
@jamesivings @vertis And you're sure that in those cases the form you submitted your information into didn't clearly say something like, "You'll receive emails from us"? I bet that's true for most cases. I'm not saying there aren't senders who fall into a gray zone – just like yourself, I've experienced signing up for a service and then getting a promotional-type email in which there isn't even an unsubscribe link on there. Or some kind of outreach like you received with no opt-out. There are bad habits, for sure. But my concern is more about conflating "spam" with "email I don't want anymore," which ARE two different things. And the reason this is important is because the more we blur this line, the more users believe that "I haven't opened these emails for a few weeks so I don't want to get them anymore and therefore it's spam" is a true statement, the more it empowers inbox providers like Gmail to abuse email as a protocol and start "tailoring" experiences for users as if their inbox was a Facebook timeline. That's a bad thing because it creates a scenario where small but "good" senders – say, your local community group – suddenly have to either be willing to pay to get into the inbox (via the promotions tab) or have to have a level of knowledge that's simply impractical to "organically" arrive in the inbox.
Lori Karikari
I stopped using Unroll.me after the news that they're selling user data. Never found a nice alternative until I discovered Leave Me Alone. It's even better than Unroll. And I love that it's created by indie makers. Congrats James and Danielle.
Danielle Johnson
Maker
@lorikarikari This is awesome! I'm so glad we are able to provide you with an alternative. Your comment is everything we were trying to achieve πŸ’› - thank you so much!
Clo
LMA saves lives! Just kidding, but it is super convenient and could save _hours_ to someone with a very cluttered inbox. James and Danielle have been very open about their progress, which I love. Long live LMA, and congrats on the launch! 🌟
Danielle Johnson
Maker
@c10v32c1u6 haha this is awesome - almost saves lives? πŸ˜… Thanks so much for your support!
Marie Denis

LMA made it easy to clean your inbox, and it’s privacy focused! I hope they can make it available for other mail services, I have other inbox to clean...

Pros:

It’s just so satisfying to tick the boxes and unsubscribe so easily. The process is really smooth.

Cons:

None

Gail Gardner
It sounded really interesting until I found out it only works with gmail. Any plans to have it work with anything else?
Danielle Johnson
Maker
@growmap Hey Gail. Sorry about this 😞. We do have plans to support other providers soon! What provider would you like us to add? You can vote on our roadmap https://leavemealone.xyz/roadmap and I'll add it if yours isn't there πŸ˜‡
Gail Gardner
@dinkydani21 I use email that is on my own domain because it is more private. Why hand everything you think, do, and write to the people aggregating it all? Of course that doesn't really help much if almost everyone chooses to use gmail and they get it all because of that. I thought people were using it because there was no spam?
Danielle Johnson
Maker
@growmap That makes sense! When I moved to Gmail from Hotmail years ago there was very little spam and I think they still do a good job of filtering out actual spam emails. What Leave Me Alone helps with is greymail which is subscription emails which you may not want any more or may have been subscribed to by a third party.
Dave Hannam
Brilliant!!! Emails have to be the worst thing ever... and now there is a solution
Danielle Johnson
Maker
@sharesinsideag Thank you! Emails totally suck right?! Hopefully we can help you get less of them πŸ˜„
Ankit Kumar
LeaveMeAlone helped me unsubscribe from around 300 mailing lists which were such a big help. Thank You for making this one! @dinkydani21 @jamesivings
Danielle Johnson
Maker
@ankit_kumar3 That's huge! The record is 316 - could this be you?! πŸ€” haha - thank you for using our app!
Dale Grant

Tried this out after talking with the makers - I get so much junk it felt great to be clearing up the inbox. Thanks for the suggestion and the solution James & Danielle, keep up the good work!

Pros:

Super easy to use!

Cons:

Can’t think of any, currently

Onutz Verde
Guys, I love your service! But! I signed up with my GMail, scanned 3 days back, loved it, then tried to buy the 6 month tier. After 3 codes sent to my mobile and several more attempts, I managed to get to pay you. All good, until I logged in on my mobile with the same GMail account - no subscription, back to 3 days free. Tried to contact you in web chat, could not invoke the keyboard. Have you really tested it, end-to-end? And the second question: to what is the payment linked, if not to my GMail account?
James Ivings
Maker
@utestme Hey! Thanks for purchasing. It sounds like your bank was declining the transaction for some reason. I can see your payment has gone through now so that's good. Due to our policy of not storing any email information if you log in on a different device then you wont be able to see the results of a scan that was performed elsewhere. However if you visit the scan history page (https://leavemealone.xyz/app/his...), then you should be able to re-run the 6 month scan from your mobile.
Andrew Askins

It's a really great product from two indie makers! Give it a shot if, like me, you've been meaning to thin out that one personal email address that's filled with spam but you'd really like to be able to use again.

Pros:

Great interface, Easy to use, Paid product so they don't sell your data

Cons:

Can't yet resubscribe to newsletters, so if you're a dummy like me you may accidentally unsubscribe from some you want to get.

James Ivings
Maker
Haha yeah we can't really re-subscribe you πŸ˜… but you can use the "Favourite senders" feature so that you don't accidentally unsubscribe from any more. Just click the little ❀️