# BeyondFolder

> Software products, free tools and writing by Rares Serban, a senior software engineer and solopreneur in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

BeyondFolder is the umbrella for the products Rares Serban builds and sells on his own, plus free tools for founders and notes on distribution. Bootstrapped, no funding. Rares has 10+ years of production experience (PHP, then Rust and blockchain, then AI products), was a tech lead for 3+ years, works as a Senior Software Engineer at RWS on Papercup (AI dubbing), and takes one role at a time next to his own products as a fractional CTO, tech lead or founding engineer for early-stage products.

## Pages

- [About Rares Serban](https://beyondfolder.com/about): career arc, CV highlights, what he's building now
- [Fractional CTO and tech lead](https://beyondfolder.com/fractional-cto): one role at a time as fractional CTO, tech lead or founding engineer for early-stage products, with case studies of Mailyond, Omniyond and Docuyond. Contact: rares@beyondfolder.com
- [Now](https://beyondfolder.com/now): what he's working on this month
- [Contact](https://beyondfolder.com/contact): email address, LinkedIn and what to write about (outside roles, the Distribution Framework, product support)
- [Open source](https://beyondfolder.com/open-source): dolby-atmos-encoder (Rust, a DAMF to E-AC-3 Atmos encoder, 100+ GitHub stars), an AI testing framework in progress, and early projects
- [Blog](https://beyondfolder.com/blog): distribution, validation, outreach and SEO, with real numbers
  - [Why are my cold emails getting no replies? Debug them in this order](https://beyondfolder.com/blog/cold-emails-no-replies)
  - [Why do people say they'd use your product and then never buy it?](https://beyondfolder.com/blog/customers-say-they-want-it-but-dont-buy)
  - [How to find your ICP with no customers (a 13-criteria scorecard)](https://beyondfolder.com/blog/find-your-icp-with-no-customers)
  - [50 free directories to submit your SaaS to in 2026](https://beyondfolder.com/blog/free-saas-directories)
  - [Let Claude Code work your directory submission list](https://beyondfolder.com/blog/claude-code-mcp-directory-submissions)

## Products

### Mailyond
- **Website**: https://mailyond.com
- **What**: Send and answer email across all your domains. Every address on every connected domain lands in one inbox, replies go out from the address the mail came to, and apps send through a Resend-compatible API. MCP server for AI agents.
- **Price**: $10/month Basic (5 domains), $20/month Pro (10 domains), $40/month Agency (30 domains), 7-day free trial on Basic and Pro

### Omniyond
- **Website**: https://omniyond.com
- **What**: Pay-per-use API toolbox for AI agents. A scheduler that runs any HTTP call once or on a repeat (with retries, and an email when a job still fails), plus page extraction, screenshots, PDFs, OG images, QR codes and short links. Hosted MCP server at https://omniyond.com/mcp.
- **Price**: from $0.01 per call, prepaid credit packs ($9 / $29 / $99, credits never expire) or x402 per call in USDC on Base
- **Status**: retired in October 2026. Still online and working, no longer developed or promoted.

### Distribution Framework
- **Website**: https://beyondfolder.com/distribution
- **What**: A Claude Code growth system built from how 8+ founders got their customers, tested on the author's own products. A playbook plus 8 agents and 4 skills for idea validation, ICP scoring, lead sourcing, outreach, SEO and a one-page distribution strategy. AI does the research, you close the deals.
- **Price**: $39 one-time, or $89 bundled with NuxtBeyond

### NuxtBeyond
- **Website**: https://nuxtbeyond.com
- **What**: AI-first Nuxt 4 starter kit for SaaS on Cloudflare: RAG chat, auth (Google OAuth + credentials), Stripe billing, multi-tenancy and zero-config Cloudflare deployment.
- **Price**: $59 one-time, or $89 bundled with the Distribution Framework
- **Status**: retired in October 2026. Still online and for sale, no longer developed or promoted.

### Killed and retired
Listed on the homepage with the year and what happened: Omniyond and NuxtBeyond (2026, retired in October: both still online, no longer developed), Saveyond (2026, killed after validation), Docuyond (2025 to 2026, AI support widget, retired: the site is still up but no longer worked on), the Declassified Technologies newsletter (2025), and learning projects that were never marketed: donations.fun (2024), xMemers (2021), Caut Mesteri (2020), Tripalovsky (2018), YTReview (2017), BeyondFolder 4K (2017), WriteHey (2016).

## Free tools

### Directory Submission Tracker
- **URL**: https://beyondfolder.com/directories
- **What**: Free tracker for 515 link-checked SaaS directories, sorted by domain rating. Track submission status per project, add private directories, and connect an AI agent over MCP (https://beyondfolder.com/mcp) with unscoped or per-project API keys. Requires a free account.

### Domain Rating Checker
- **URL**: https://beyondfolder.com/tools/domain-rating-checker
- **What**: Free Domain Rating by Ahrefs lookup for any site, no signup. Also lists the free directories in the tracker's catalog that have a higher DR than the checked site.

### Calculators (no signup)
- [Burn rate](https://beyondfolder.com/tools/burn-rate-calculator), [break-even](https://beyondfolder.com/tools/break-even-calculator), [LTV](https://beyondfolder.com/tools/ltv-calculator), [CAC](https://beyondfolder.com/tools/cac-calculator), [churn rate](https://beyondfolder.com/tools/churn-rate-calculator), [revenue growth](https://beyondfolder.com/tools/revenue-growth-calculator), [client qualification](https://beyondfolder.com/tools/client-qualification)
- All tools: https://beyondfolder.com/tools

### DMARC checker (on Mailyond)
- **URL**: https://mailyond.com/tools/dmarc-checker
- **What**: Free DMARC, SPF and MX check for up to 10 domains at once, with plain-English findings and copy-paste fixes. No signup, and nothing is stored.

### MX record checker (on Mailyond)
- **URL**: https://mailyond.com/tools/mx-record-checker
- **What**: Free MX lookup for up to 10 domains or subdomains at once. Shows each domain's MX hosts in priority order with the provider (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 including its newer *.mx.microsoft hosts, Zoho, Cloudflare Email Routing and others), whether each host resolves, and flags a CNAME on the checked name, no MX (mail falls back to the A record) and a null MX. No signup, and nothing is stored.

## Person

- **Name**: Rares Serban
- **Based in**: Cluj-Napoca, Romania (EET)
- **Email**: rares@beyondfolder.com
- **LinkedIn**: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raress96/
- **X**: https://x.com/raress96
- **GitHub**: https://github.com/raress96 (personal), https://github.com/BeyondFolder (products)

## Legal

- **Company**: CraftCodely
- **Privacy Policy**: https://beyondfolder.com/privacy-policy
- **Terms of Service**: https://beyondfolder.com/terms-of-service