Email Followup Tool

2 Email Followup Tool Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: September 25th, 2024

In an increasingly digital world, effective communication is key. An email follow-up tool can streamline and automate your follow-up process, ensuring timely responses to customers and clients without manual effort.

This tool can be integrated with existing email platforms to send automatic follow-ups based on user behaviors or pre-set time intervals. Picture never missing a vital follow-up email again, freeing up your time to focus on other essential business tasks.

The initial work involves researching the right development platform, planning the tool's features, and marketing it to potential users. Once set up, it provides a seamless way to nurture leads and maintain communication.

If you’re looking for a business idea that combines technical savvy with practical application, an email follow-up tool is worth considering. It addresses a common pain point in maintaining customer relationships, offering a valuable solution that many businesses would find indispensable.

In this list, you'll find real-world email followup tool success stories and very profitable examples of starting a email followup tool that makes money.

1. Bluetick.io ($42K/year)

Mike Taber came up with the idea for Bluetick.io after experiencing the frustration of sending follow-up emails and tracking responses manually. He validated the idea by conducting customer interviews and collecting prepayments, and then hired a team of developers to build the product. After improving the website and launching, he focused on email marketing to attract and retain customers.

How much money it makes: $42K/year
How many people on the team: 0

How I Achieved $1K MRR Without Writing A Single Line of Code

Bluetick.io is a self-funded SaaS app that helps salespeople, customer success reps and busy founders close the loop with their customers using sequences of automated email follow ups, achieving $1,000 MRR without writing a single line of code through customer validation and prepayments.

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2. Lotus ($252/year)

Vadim, a software engineer, came up with the idea for his business, Lotus, while working as an open-source maintainer. He struggled to keep up with GitHub notifications and was inspired by the transformative email service, HEY, to create a similar tool for GitHub developers. Since launching last week, Vadim has already earned $261.74 and has been sharing his journey through a weekly newsletter to maintain accountability and keep readers updated on Lotus's development process.

How much money it makes: $252/year
How much did it cost to start: $0
How many people on the team: 0

My journey developing a Mac app for managing GitHub notifications

Lotus app creator Vadim shares the story of how he created a Mac app for managing GitHub notifications and earned $261.74 in his first week as an indie developer, through consistency, careful feature selection, and a powerful toolset including Excalidraw, Buttondown, and Vercel.

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