Nguyen asked Liu if he could whip up a prototype that would let them extract some basic information about the ad’s poster via email. However, it wasn’t until last summer, when he and his wife came across an ad for a San Francisco apartment on Craigslist that sounded a little fishy, that the idea for Mailtracker was born.
While there, Nguyen says they began to realize the importance of email messages and what it meant when those emails were open and read. The company, Answerbook, is the third startup from co-founders Chris Nguyen and Lee Liu, who previously built and sold an early location-based job finder acquired by onTargetjobs, and later launched TeamSave, a social commerce platform that helped publishers, including eBay, get into the daily deals market.
You can also star and mute notifications and quickly take action after an email is read using Mailtracker’s “Reply” and “Call” features. In addition to alerting you when an email has been read, Mailtracker offers other analytics, too, including how many times the email was viewed, how long the email was read for, the recipient’s location information, and their device details. Currently, the service works with emails sent via Gmail, Google Apps, Yahoo, and /Hotmail accounts, the company says, and it will add support for Microsoft Exchange in the future, given the obvious business implications for its software.
To be clear, the Mailtracker app itself is not meant to be a mail client that you would use to send and receive emails, but rather a tracking application for monitoring your email analytics. Want to stalk people via email, so you’ll know the moment they read your message? Or maybe you want to know if they gave your message a good look, instead of only a glance? Mailtracker, a newly launched app for iPhone, allows you to do just that, and more.Įmail stalking? Oh god, why am I telling you about this one? I’m already imagining the horror of the PR person’s well-timed, follow-up phone call thanks to this technology.īut I have to admit, it’s pretty impressive that you can now easily do this type of email tracking from your iPhone, while still using Apple’s default Mail application.
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