8 Email App Business Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: November 19th, 2023

Start An Email App Business

Here are some real life success stories of starting a email app business:

1. Mailman ($360K/year)

This founder has built 25+ side projects. Most of them failed but a few brought in some revenue. After failing small and big over two dozen times, he had one product that investors wanted to invest money in, and after five years of growing it, sold it, and took some time off from making stuff. He started advising and investing in startups, especially crypto startups.

To find time from all the chaos happening in his inbox, he wrote a small script that would make sure that emails landed in his inbox only every four hours, in batches. Nothing comes in between. He used this script to find time to find good ideas that he could be building next.

That’s when he saw a tweet from Andrew Wilkinson (Dribble owner), and he immediately emailed him with the script and a video tutorial. His reply was, “What if we make this into a business?”

How much they make: $360K/year
How much did it cost to start: $30K
Current team size: 5

We Built A $360K/Year Gmail Plugin That Helps People Manage Their Inbox

Mailman, a tool that allows users to control when and what emails should land in their inbox, is a year-old company bringing in approximately $30k in MRR, while its upcoming features will improve users’ newsletter-reading experience and automate redundant tasks.

About

Mohit started Mailman about 4 years ago

Revenue

Mohit grew the business to $30K/month

Costs

It cost Mohit $30000 to start the business

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2. Mutant Mail ($24K/year)

Abhishek, the founder of Mutant Mail, came up with the idea for his business after facing a server outage and receiving a DMCA complaint due to email monitoring negligence. Realizing the need for a solution to easily manage multiple domain emails, Abhishek and his team developed Mutant Mail, the only server-side solution to this problem. Within two weeks of its soft launch, they acquired 10 paid customers, and within five days of their AppSumo launch, they gained another 100 paid customers.

How much they make: $24K/year
How much did it cost to start: $500
Current team size: 2

How A DMCA Complaint Led Us To Build A Profitable Email Management Tool

Mutant Mail, a SaaS product from Fresent LLC, allows entrepreneurs, small businesses, marketers, and individuals to effortlessly manage all their domain emails from a single inbox, with a max usage account managing close to 245 email ids across 29 domains and acquired 10 paid customers within 2 weeks of its soft-launch and 100 more within 5 days of its AppSumo launch.

About

Abhishek started Mutant Mail almost 3 years ago

Revenue

Abhishek grew the business to $2K/month

Costs

It cost Abhishek $500 to start the business

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4. Yahoo

News, email and search are just the beginning. Discover more every day. Find your yodel.

Where they're located: Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Website traffic: 3.53B/month

5. Netflix

Watch Netflix movies & TV shows online or stream right to your smart TV, game console, PC, Mac, mobile, tablet and more.

Where they're located: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Website traffic: 2.48B/month

So... can you actually make money with a email app business?

Of course. There are millions to be made in this industry.

But how?

Research real, profitable businesses and see exactly how much money they make.
Study exactly what works, and what doesn’t.
Take action, because now you have the roadmap.

Join Starter Story and build your next big thing:

Start Now

7. Office 365

Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. Save documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online, in OneDrive. Share them with others and work together at the same time.

Where they're located: Riverside, California, USA
Website traffic: 1.52B/month

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