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mertenvg

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About mertenvg

Hi HN: I'm a software engineer for 24+ years, father of two kids, and dog-father to a Bernese Mountain Dog. Golang is my jam!

I have a tendency to overthink everything, including thinking about what other people think. And I think everything is an engineering problem.

Recently I nearly got burned by a phishing scheme. Plus the constant spam no matter how many times I clean out my mailbox (gmail) has turned it into a cesspool I need to wade through every time I want to find a legit email. I thought I'd try a different angle. Out of it came DMCN.

An open protocol that puts a digital identity front and center of any messages sent through it, and a bridge to traditional mail that trades the identity for compatibility.

Open protocol: https://dmcn.dev Blog: https://get.dmcn.email/blog Hosted service: https://get.dmcn.email For businesses: https://get.dmcnmail.com

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    Comment #49691954

    Pretty sure that was Blackberry's downfall

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    Comment #49691935

    Working on a better way to do email. Every solution I've seen so far is trying to solve the problem from the wrong end in my opinion. Filtering, privacy extensions, walled gardens,…

  3. story
    Show HN: Email where an address is a keypair, with an SMTP bridge

    I nearly got phished earlier this year. 24+ years in software engineering, I know exactly how phishing and spam work and what to look out for, and it still almost worked on me. Tha…

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    Comment #49589932

    I've been working on a project with the intention of changing the email landscape a little (or a lot) that I'd love to share with you. I've been working on a hosted solution availa…