Paul Tyma
- Founder at Mailinator
GetLatka interview
How Mailinator Grew to Hundreds of Paying QA Teams as a Bootstrapped Side Project (Interview with Founder Paul Tyma)
Paul Tyma (Founder of Mailinator) spoke to Nathan Latka on May 2, 2017.
Mailinator figures from the interview
- Pricing (Single User) (2017)
- $29
- Team Size (2017)
- 3
- Free Site Uniques (2017)
- 45,000 per day
- Emails Received (2017)
- 9,000,000 per day
“Mailinator was a side project I built thirteen years ago for to scratch my own itch, which is basically a free disposable email service. It is a receive only email service. It can't send. It can only receive.”
“Hundreds of QA teams now are using this service.”
“The pricing on the on the current model, although we're always working on this sort of stuff, and a lot of stuff's coming down the pike is $29 for a single user and 129 for a team.”
Bio
Paul is a serial (sometimes parallel) entrepreneur, technologist and author. Paul built and still runs the Mailinator email service. Prior to that he was the founding CEO of Preemptive Solutions, makers of Software IP protection products. He was the founder and CTO of Home-Account, which was acquired by Bills.com. While he was a Senior Engineer at Google, he was a member of the Google Hiring Committee. He’s putting his skill for finding top software development talent to good use as he grows the Refresh team. Paul is an advisor to Bullpen Capital and Preemptive Solutions. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Toledo, an M.S. in Computer Science from Central Michigan University and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University.