I created a tool that eliminates spam emails completely. Where to go from here?

I have built a tool that eliminates spam emails. It uses a pretty simple process.

    1. Checks your emails address for payments to it.
    1. Get the receipts.
    1. Check for emails with the payment receipt included
    1. Send those emails to your First Class Gmail Inbox instead of the traditional inbox.

What should I do now? I would like to pitch investors and other companies to adopt the tech. But, where should I go in your opinion?

  • rydan@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This isn’t a new concept. Bill Gates even mentioned it once as a solution to spam around 20 years ago. The idea being you spend something like $0.001 per email sent which is trivial to a person but would bankrupt a spammer. We even covered it in a grad school course in 2006. I’ve seen Bitcoiners on Reddit calling this a solution but obviously using Bitcoin.

    The forwarding to your first class email address is something I’ve seen another service do but it didn’t involve payment. Basically you emailed their throwaway email address. You then got an email back in response explaining what is going on. It has a link in the email where you have to fill out a form and pass a captcha. Then it forwards the email. In the future any further emails you send are automatically forwarded.