This Israeli built a revolutionary tool all by himself - with no fundraising, no newspaper headlines, and you should get to know him: Eliezer Steinbock
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This Israeli built a revolutionary tool all by himself - with no fundraising, no newspaper headlines, and you should get to know him: Eliezer Steinbock
We all struggle with the information overload in our email inbox -
Inbox Zero is a system that scans and tidies your email inbox (with AI, of course) and categorizes newsletters, marketing emails, and emails you need to reply to. It also prepares ready-made replies to emails, filters spam, and summarizes emails.
These aren't slogans, it really manages to do this very impressively. And it already has over 8,000 users who attest to it - within 3 months of launch!
Just as interesting is that the code is released as open source! Meaning anyone can go in and look at the code, if you have the technical knowledge. This adds a sense of confidence about the project's reliability, and doesn't stop customers from signing up and paying for its managed cloud service.
Eliezer built the whole project with the Cursor IDE development tool and teaches, in YouTube videos and other channels, how he does it.
He also founded the Cursor Israel community and leads meetups on the topic.
The important knowledge he shares has also made him an official Cursor ambassador in Israel!
In the past he founded other ventures like skilled, a marketplace for freelancers in Israel, and a fantasy football game. All bootstrapped and without fundraising.
His latest venture, Inbox Zero, was accepted into a special accelerator called TinySeed that works only with bootstrapped companies.
His project is a star on GitHub, at the top of the table of TypeScript-based projects, and inspires developers around the world.
Entrepreneurs who build alone without raising capital (bootstrap) get less spotlight and media coverage, and that's a pity - because people like Eliezer, the brilliant tool he built, and his generous sharing are a privilege for us and Israeli pride 🇮🇱
