Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required
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Re: Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required
#2I think this is great. Existing products/sites aren't always kept up to date and you never know if they are still functioning.
Before working in an office, when I needed to fax a document I would have to drive to a Staples/Post Office or find a friend with an old fax machine.
Re: Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required
#3Nice. How do you fund this without taking emails or requiring a subscription?
Re: Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required
#4Nice. How do you fund this without taking emails or requiring a subscription?
FTSite: ''Simple, straightforward, pricing. $1 for the first four pages, $0.25 for each additional page.''
Twilio charges are generally under $0.25/min for outbound phone calls in the U.S. and $0.01/page for programmable fax. If you choose not to opt for Twilio Fax API, lambda function to encode and send the fax is a fraction of a penny instead. So there's probably some room for profit margin either way.
Re: Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required
#5I was asked to look for an online fax solution. A provider I contacted never called me back. Do you offer subscriptions even if they are not needed? I know next to nothing about faxing - how is the transmitted data secured? Is it?
Re: Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required
#6Removed (see comments below). Thanks for the wisdom petertb.
Re: Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required
#7Nice. How do you fund this without taking emails or requiring a subscription?
While this service is pretty clear in that you just pay for each fax, one could easily imagine a free service that collected fax machine phone numbers and then later begins sending lots of fax spam.
Re: Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required
#8Nice. How do you fund this without taking emails or requiring a subscription?
While this service is pretty clear in that you just pay for each fax, one could easily imagine a free service that collected fax machine phone numbers and then later begins sending lots of fax spam.
Many years ago a company kept waking me up in the middle of the night with repeated attempts to deliver junk faxes to my home number. That inspired me to figure out how to use some fax software with my faxmodem (see, many years ago) to capture one of them. They became keen on getting me off their list when I asked for damages under the junk fax law.
Re: Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required
#9This looks absolutely fantastic! Does anyone else feel like Show HNs with straightforward, by-the-order pricing is always based on declining technology (Fax; SMS; Printing in the case of Bingo Card Creator)? I guess it has to do with the customer base?
Re: Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required
#10Removed (see comments below). Thanks for the wisdom petertb.
Generally it's considered a faux pas (and downvoted) to advertise on other users' Show HN.
HN doesn't have an anti-commercial position like other forums, but competition on Show HNs is heavily frowned upon, since we're supposed to be celebrating the user's initiative and effort, not just look at a product.