Worth it Stage 1
Fastmail is paid for by its users, with no ads and no scanning of mail for marketing. It runs on open standards (IMAP and JMAP), and with your own domain you can move providers without changing your address. Its 2024 plan overhaul raised prices for many existing customers, one extraction criterion, which stage 1 tolerates. Stage 1.
- Since
- 1999
- Category
- VC-backed
- No
- Public
- No
- Website
- fastmail.com
The promise
Its first promise, and how much is kept · Scoring
80% kept
“FastMail: the Fastest Email Service on the Planet”
Why it’s rated 1
The criteria it meets, with sources · Method
- Alignment 1 of 3
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- A1 Paid for without surveillance
- Lock-in 0 of 4
- None
- Extraction 1 of 7
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- E1 Pay more for the same Apr 8, 2024
- Decline 0 of 3
- None
Result An alignment criterion, no lock-in, and at most one extraction criterion, so stage 1.
News signals
Sourced reporting, tagged by strategy
Apr 8, 2024