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pearknob

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    Ask HN: How do people send 'SPAM'?

    If Azure, Amazon, Mailgun, Sendgrid etc all monitor their outgoing email traffic, how are people possibly getting around this this to send'SPAM' emails? Note: I understand people u…

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    Comment #9411907

    quite useful, great job

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    Comment #8964022

    I still don't get how Slack is different than HipChat. In fact, I think Slack just copied the latter. Seriously, am I missing something?

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    Comment #8583791

    Wait, Evernote raised $70M at a $1B valuation in 2012. This funding round seems low. Am I missing something?

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    Comment #8548082

    Slack's marketing is genius. The whole play on making Email look bad is brilliant and many startups are following suit. But to be quite frank Slack is making things a whole lot wor…

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    Comment #8378817

    Excellent point. One thing that I'm noticing is that other tools are becoming just as busy as Email for me. At times I feel like there isn't a difference. The volume of email is wh…

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    Comment #8376840

    Great product. Nice to see Howie start another startup (Remember Etacts?)

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    Comment #8364231

    I've heard internal employees calling this phone 'Fugly'; Fat and Ugly.

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    Comment #8345978

    The neat thing with email is that you could just look in the 'Sent' folder and find all the emails you sent to Ohlife and see all your entries :)

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    Comment #8262989

    Isn't there a policy against repeat posts? (although I get the url's are diff)

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    Comment #8258949

    Totally agree. Which is why I'm excited about the Gmail API and Inboxapp

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    Comment #8258454

    I think that a lot of "startups" are using the fantasy of an email-less world as a marketing tactic. I agree, I don't think email is going to disappear. Whether that is a good thin…

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    Comment #8258404

    Since email encryption seems like the topic of discussion today, I thought I'd throw my 2 cents in :)

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    Comment #8248440

    Novel. This is a project of Smore; which coincidentally does incredibly awesome design work with their products. This (ykombinator) is a good example.

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    Comment #8248035

    Great job. I love tools that make things dead simple :)

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    Comment #8187574

    Firstly, congratulations on making something useful in one day. Great job. I skimmed over the documentation/examples and this is excellent.

  21. story
    Ask HN: How do you validate something you've made is something people want?

    I've been through this countless times. I throw together an awesome side project. People tell me they like it. But it dies off. Sometimes I think "maybe this wasn't something they …

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    Comment #8176202

    A side note: I really love Mailgun as a service :)