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Sendy — Read newsletters you love, get paid
Sendy puts you in control of the emails you recieve and gets you paid for what you read. Earn points for opening emails and cash out for giftcards or crypto. Marketers can quickly grow an audience for their newsletters by rewarding new engaged subscribers.
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Adelino Monteiro
Guys could you please correct spelling? You get "Susbscribed" when you Subscribe :-)
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@ainou also homepage says "... control of the emails you recieve..." -- should be receive. Love the concept!
@naweg hey sorry you ran into the issue. You do have to open the emails within 24 hours to get rewarded. Some of our publishers have also run out of points as we've been growing quite quickly. Working on this with them.
@josh_reyes Definitely opened all of them within 24 hours. If the publisher can "run out" of points, then I don't see why they are still allowed to send since it means I'm reading with no reimbursement.
Cool concept...but what is the USD value of each Sendy point? Your site should explain this.
Love the idea of aligning users and publishers in the attention economy but a few questions:
1) Users can cash out points for things that have a set cost (this is different than in Brave). Since there is a fixed cost, you have to get the monetization from somewhere. What's your future plan here? Do you fund rewards from charging publishers or promotional ads etc?
2) There are some large publications on the site right now. Are they real users, or have you seeded your marketplace by adding them without their involvement?
3) Your privacy policy is a bit alarming, it gives you rights to collect things like passport details, financial details including account numbers and income, usernames and **passwords**, private keys for crypto wallets, etc. Some of these things may be used in financial due diligence for payout KYC/AML or for publishers or advertisers, but, the entire collection of PII is currently eligible to be shared with third-parties and used for advertising. Can you explain why you need rights to so much data, what its used for and how its protected? (And, are you willing to restructure your privacy policy, to be more segmented and conditional where certain personal information is exempt from marketing clauses?)
Hey @adamscochran 👋
1) We did a private token sale about a year ago. Eventually Sendy points will be pegged to an exchange rate with the token and have a floating USD value once we launch them on an exchange.
2) Right now most of the bigger publications are seeded by us. We've been getting them new subscribers for about 1c each, so we eventually hope we can move them over to running their own listing.
3) You're right on this, that privacy policy was up for the token sale and its been an oversight by us to update it now that the product is up and running. We'll get the team on it. Thanks for pointing that out!
Thanks so much for hunting us @chrismessina ! After seeing the Brave Browser's novel way of rewarding people for their attention, we decided to build the same for email. The result is Sendy: Read the newsletters you love, get paid for opening them.
As a subscriber you can unearth new newsletters, earn points for subscribing and engaging, then cashout for giftcards from leading retailers across the US.
Building SmartrMail and Sendicate for the past 4 years we knew that publishers would be on board. Growing an email list is one the toughest challenges when you're just starting out. Sendy is a way to build an engaged list quickly and without forking out huge sums on paid ads. We're just starting out but so far the results have been fantastic. New publishers are seeing 100 new email signups per day, with a 50% open rate and 13% click rate. Subscribers don't get paid for clicks and its still 6x the industry average!
If you want to earn some points, sign up today and start opening emails.
If you have a newsletter, list it on us and we'll give you some free points to get started!
If I understand this correct, publishers are then "stuck" paying you a distribution fee per subscriber in perpetuity? Hmm... I guess it's all a numbers game, if you can truly deliver a big group of subscribers, quickly.
Interested to see how this plays out and if it will be quality subscribers or just folks who are there to get the freebies (and not be motived to click through in email links for instance)
@jwb Click rates right now are 13% which are 6x the industry average. Not getting paid for clicks, so the stats say otherwise. Pretty impressed for the early days as even I thought it would start quite low and increase only as we grew.
Love the concept but once I attempted to validate my email address, my Chrome browser threw an error since the certificate was NOT valid for the site. I made sure my VPN was off and after several attempts the results were the same over 3 days. Further, my request for assistance on the site went unanswered for 3 days straight and NO ONE addressed the invalid certificate issue. Highly disappointing thus far.
Sounds like a great idea, but having signed up and gone to the 'redeem' section, it appears that to achieve a $10 gift card, you need 20,000 'sendy points'.
With the average open being worth 20 sendy points - that's 1,000 opens.
Seems excessive, no?
@glittersignal We're hoping as we grow there will be more competition and the price per open will increase. Most networks started with pretty low CPCs, facebook, twitter, adwords etc.
Started good. I gathered sendy equivalent to 20 USD. Tried to transfer to my external wallet. Transaction failed thrice. Contacted support, no response respite 3 reminders.
Boom. Rate changes. now same sandy valued at 5 USD. Feels cheated!
