8 Email Unsubscribing Service Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: March 11th, 2024

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Here are some real life success stories of starting a email unsubscribing service:

1. Leave Me Alone ($120K/year)

These founders also run a web development agency. Leave Me Alone was born because they took their own advice and stuck to solving their own problems. Both were spending a lot of time sorting through emails, so they went searching for a service that would help them find and unsubscribe from the unwanted ones.

Found a few that would help for free, but a closer look revealed that they didn’t charge because they were selling all of their user's data for marketing. Faced with the dilemma of a messy inbox or all of their email data being exploited, they decided to build their own solution.

How much they make: $120K/year
How much did it cost to start: $1K
Current team size: 0

We Built Our App From The Back Of A Bus And Grew It To 10,000 Users

Leave Me Alone, a web service that helps users easily unsubscribe from unwanted emails, launched in January 2019 and made $1,186 in revenue in its first month, with a successful Product Hunt launch and a focus on being an open startup contributing to its success.

About

Danielle started Leave Me Alone over 5 years ago

Revenue

Danielle grew the business to $10K/month

Costs

It cost Danielle $1000 to start the business

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2. 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 almost 4 years ago

Revenue

Mohit grew the business to $30K/month

Costs

It cost Mohit $30000 to start the business

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So... can you actually make money with a email unsubscribing service?

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