quietmoneyPurelymail
Low-cost email hosting: create mailboxes on your own domain, with IMAP/POP3/SMTP and routing rules.
A one-person "jOne-line growth story, compiled by us from public sources; speculation is marked separately below.
Checkout visits over time
Checkout: checkout.stripe.com
1. Productwhat it sells, to whom, and how it charges
- Product
- Low-cost email hosting: create mailboxes on your own domain, with IMAP/POP3/SMTP and routing rules.
- Users
- Individual site owners and technical users who have their own domain and want cheap email
- Positioning
- Very cheap (from about $10/year), usage-based billing, no extra features
- Pricing
- From about $10/year (example: 1 address, 3GB), billed by storage usage; the trial includes a small amount of credit Billing: per item Source: Existing
- Prices on site
- $10.00/yr (1 address, 3 GB example)
“Start a trial and we'll give your account a limited amount of credits. We don't have a 24/7 support staff”Quote from the site
2. Channelswhere new users come from and what the traffic looks like
New-user source: Other (Direct / referral / email / paid). Mostly direct visits at 87.1%, search 9% (brand keywords such as purelymail at 96.1%), referral 2.6%, AI assistants 0.9% (ChatGPT). New users hear about it through word of mouth in tech circles (Reddit, YouTube) and then visit directly; returning users come back to log in to webmail and manage their accounts.
Last month's traffic sources
Semrush source breakdown (desktop)
Five-class attribution
| Attributable new users, last month | Share |
|---|---|
| GEO | 1% |
| Other | 99% |
Direct + brand search 96%. Direct and brand search count as viral only when the site shows sharing mechanics; the largest share wins, under 5% means Other.
Countries
| Country | Share of visits |
|---|---|
| United States | 48.94% |
| Canada | 6.27% |
| Australia | 5.29% |
| Pakistan | 4.96% |
| Poland | 4.16% |
Countries (Semrush): Bangladesh 25.4%, United States 20.2%, Germany 5.8%, Algeria 4.4%, Canada 4.1%
Language
English
Social sources
YouTube, Reddit, Facebook
AI assistants
| Source | Share |
|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 0.79 |
| Gemini | 0.02 |
AI referrals (Semrush): ChatGPT 5,255 (0.79%), Gemini 107 (0.02%)
Keywords
198 keywords · brand ~96% · organic 100% / paid 0%
| Similarweb top 5 keywords |
|---|
| purelymail |
| purely mail |
| puremail plans |
| purelymail smtp |
| purelymail api |
Referring sites
5 referring sites
| Site | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| canasi.net | 0.12% |
| stripe.com | 0.01% |
Referrer categories
| Category | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| Finance - Other | 23.63% |
| Computers Electronics and Technology - Other | 0.01% |
Site metrics (Similarweb, last month)
- Visits, last 3 months
- 572.9K (3 months)
- Visits MoM
- +40.03%
- Country rank
- United States #47342
- Category rank
- Programming and Developer Software #937
- Bounce rate
- 38.42%
- Pages / visit
- 4.52
- Visit duration
- 00:04:02
- Industry
- Programming and Developer Software
- Top 3 channels
- Direct › Mail › Organic Search (top channel 45.61%)
- Semrush monthly visits
- 3 months ago 389,908 · 2 months ago 495,989 · Last month 666,320 Semrush scale, ~3–4× Similarweb
- Semrush organic / paid search visits
- 7,064 / 0
- Semrush source breakdown (desktop)
- Direct 85.2%, google.com · Google organic 8.8%, faisaltusher.com 2.6%, chatgpt.com 0.8%, mail.google.com 0.5%
3. Growth pathhow the first users arrived and what kept it growing
Classification
Basics
Timeline
Growth loop
Revenue and scale clues
Confidence and gaps
Other sites that started via “Launch platform”
Similar sitessame category, also growing via Other
FAQ
How many checkout visits does Purelymail get per month?
About 8,596 last month (Similarweb estimate), #372 of 606; the month before was 9,010. Opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue.
Where do Purelymail's new users come from?
New-user source: Other (Direct / referral / email / paid). Mostly referrals, email or paid, or mostly direct with no clear source Mostly direct visits at 87.1%, search 9% (brand keywords such as purelymail at 96.1%), referral 2.6%, AI assistants 0.9% (ChatGPT). New users hear about it through word of mouth in tech circles (Reddit, YouTube) and then visit directly; returning users come back to log in to webmail and manage their accounts.
How much does Purelymail cost?
From about $10/year (example: 1 address, 3GB), billed by storage usage; the trial includes a small amount of credit
Dossier confidence: high. Parts 1 and 2 come from reading the site and Similarweb data; part 3 from public reporting, founder posts, Wayback snapshots, WHOIS and similar, with speculation marked.
The number: checkout visits is Similarweb's estimate of visits from the site to a checkout payment page; opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue. Small sites land on fixed buckets.
Data through last month. Page updated 2026-10-26.