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Single-purpose email addresses

Offer disposable inboxes that only accept mail from one predefined sender.

Why now

Email overload continues driving demand for radical simplicity solutions.

Who for
Privacy-conscious email users
Business model
Premium features
Effort
A weekend

People need to share email addresses for specific purposes (banking, travel) but fear inbox pollution. Current aliases still get spam.

Build inboxes that reject all mail except from whitelisted senders, with automatic expiration options.

Charge consumers for premium features like longer retention and multiple whitelists.

Start with basic SMTP forwarding with sender filtering.

Risk: Email clients may eventually build this natively.

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