Okay, I was curious what Inbox Zero is, and I went ‘ew’ at the ‘ai’ angle, but then I fucking lost it when I got to the prices. They went $18 a month (per user) on the annual plan, to:

• basically tags your email, which you can set up yourself using folders, and probably near identical through gmail or something
• get ai replies written up for you… which I think gmail also does now
• ’blocks cold emails’ which is just the spam filter with a fresh coat of paint
• ’bulk unsubscibed / archive’… you can do that in most modern email clients? I guess not in bulk but how many shitty newsletters and promos do you subscribe to, really?
• and an ‘analysis’ of your email…?

I do everything except the ai replies through cpanel and my email client, for free. Fucking hell, that’s almost 3x what I pay for my web/email hosting. And I don’t have to prepay for a year of service, and I get way more granular control over incoming messages. That service is highway robbery, and they have 15k users?! What the actual fuck. $18 a year, kinda high, but a fucking month…