{"slug": "show-hn-pitchbin-a-vendor-database-built-from-the-cold-emails-you-get", "title": "Show HN: PitchBin – a vendor database built from the cold emails you get", "summary": "PitchBin, a new vendor database tool launched on Hacker News, lets buyers forward cold emails to a dedicated address, where AI extracts the company, service, and price into a shared company catalog. The tool is free for buyers, with vendors paying $49.99 per month for repeat pitches, and claims to address the 95% of cold emails that go unanswered.", "body_md": "Forward any cold email to [[email protected]](/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection). AI extracts the company, service and price and files it in your company catalog. The offer you would have deleted is waiting when the need appears.\n\nGot a message on LinkedIn, email or anywhere else? Paste the reply we generate for you, or put the link in your profile once and stop replying at all. The seller opens your link, fills in the company, service and price in two minutes, and the offer lands in the same catalog.\n\nNo plugin. No new inbox. Free for buyers.\n\nSubjectFwd: Proposal: SEO audit and content plan\n\nHi Anna,\n\nI lead partnerships at Northreach Digital. We ran a quick audit of your site and found 31 pages losing organic traffic. Our SEO audit and content plan starts at $2,400 per month. Could we book 20 minutes this week?\n\nBest, Daniel\n\nYour catalog\n\nNorthreach Digital\n\nSEO audit + content\n\nsent to Anna\n\n$2,400/mo\n\nFiled under Marketing. Visible to whoever owns that budget.\n\nDaniel Reyes\n\nPartnerships at Northreach Digital\n\nGenerated by PitchBin. Paste it anywhere: LinkedIn, email, WhatsApp.\n\nYou are pitching Anna @ Acme Widgets\n\nYour catalog\n\nNorthreach Digital\n\nSEO audit + content\n\nvia your link\n\n$2,400/mo\n\nVerified sender. Prices frozen at send time.\n\nWhere it all lands\n\nEvery offer, from every inbox in the company, filed once: company, service, price, category, status. Anyone who signs up with your domain sees the same catalog.\n\n| Company | Service | Price | Status |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| Northreach Digital | SEO audit + content, sent to Anna | $2,400/mo | new |\n| HireVine | Tech recruitment, sent to Mike | 15% fee | saved |\n| Quantloop Security | Pentest package, sent to Anna | $5,900 | contacted |\n| Brandsmith Studio | Rebranding + web design, sent to Rachel | $12,000 | new |\n\nShared catalog. Verified companies only. Prices frozen at send time.\n\nThe other way in\n\nCold DM, InMail, email, a WhatsApp ping: paste the generated reply once. The vendor submits the offer through your page. Same catalog, same routing.\n\nOr set it once in your profile\n\nWhy the inbox is the wrong place\n\nWhoever receives it, the offer is filed once: company, service, price, category. What does not fit still goes in the bin, but the rest waits in the catalog for whoever owns that budget.\n\nPitches arrived\n\n0\n\nIn the catalog\n\n0\n\nIllustration. Counters count the animation, not real data.\n\n01\n\nReply with your link or forward the email.\n\nTen seconds, no new tool. Works from any mail client.\n\n02\n\nThe offer becomes a structured pitch.\n\nCompany, services, price, category. Prices are frozen at send time.\n\n03\n\nYour vendor base builds itself.\n\nStatuses, notes, ratings, search. Notes and ratings stay inside your organization.\n\nVerified companies only.\n\nEvery sender confirms a work email before a pitch is delivered.\n\nPrivate to your company.\n\nNotes, ratings and statuses never leave your organization.\n\nVendors see aggregates.\n\nOpened and saved counts, never who read what.\n\nPrices on record.\n\nA sent pitch is a snapshot. The quote you saw is the quote that stands.\n\nIntegrations\n\nConnect the catalog to where your team already talks and each new offer posts itself: company, service, price, category and a link back. Route by category - marketing offers to marketing, infrastructure to DevOps - and catch everything else with a signed webhook.\n\nFree for every organization, on every plan.\n\nSelling something? Your pitch lands with the person who decides. Your first pitch to every company is free; coming back to the same one is $49.99 per month, with pitch performance, how many companies keep you in their catalog, and a follow-up once a week.\n\n95%\n\nof cold emails get no reply at all. The offer is gone the moment it is closed.1\n\n6mo\n\nlater the need appears and someone starts a search from zero.\n\n1\n\nlink, or one forward, and the offer is filed, priced and findable for good.\n\n1 Industry benchmarks put average cold email reply rates between 1 and 5 percent (Instantly 2026 benchmark report; Woodpecker, 20M cold emails).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-pitchbin-a-vendor-database-built-from-the-cold-emails-you-get", "canonical_source": "https://pitchbin.com/", "published_at": "2026-08-28 11:15:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-28 11:49:13.127940+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["PitchBin", "Northreach Digital", "Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-pitchbin-a-vendor-database-built-from-the-cold-emails-you-get", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-pitchbin-a-vendor-database-built-from-the-cold-emails-you-get.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-pitchbin-a-vendor-database-built-from-the-cold-emails-you-get.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-pitchbin-a-vendor-database-built-from-the-cold-emails-you-get.jsonld"}}