Show HN: Free email alias to hide your real email and organize accounts

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Post by connorpeters » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 3:33 AM UTC

Show HN: Free email alias to hide your real email and organize accounts
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Post by connorpeters » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 3:43 AM UTC

Hacked this together on AWS over the last few weeks, please let me know if you find any bugs or get any value from the project! Also any tips for more clearly communicating how it works and the value it provides would be appreciated, I've found it difficult to explain to some of my less technically inclined friends.

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Post by lsiebert » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 8:21 AM UTC

With no written privacy policy or TOS, I'd be reluctant to use this.

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Post by dmje » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 8:32 AM UTC

I'm a happy https://simplelogin.io user. Seems much more feature rich than this service?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 9:13 AM UTC

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Post by beardyw » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 9:28 AM UTC

lsiebert wrote: post #3

With no written privacy policy or TOS, I'd be reluctant to use this.

Second that. Email is insecure, so whose eyes can see it is my first thought.

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Post by tgamma » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 9:46 AM UTC

Nice project! But I would be a little concerned not to be able to bring my own domain name. I would not want to update all my accounts where I have used the alias in case your project stops working some day.

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Post by schleck8 » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 10:48 AM UTC

dmje wrote: post #4

I'm a happy https://simplelogin.io user. Seems much more feature rich than this service?

There is also https://anonaddy.com which is open-source and has a great free plan

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Post by ev1 » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 11:16 AM UTC

Please consider a less cool but more neutral domain/TLD.

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Post by nitn » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 12:02 PM UTC

dmje wrote: post #4

I'm a happy https://simplelogin.io user. Seems much more feature rich than this service?

I use SimpleLogin as well, it's a great solution and it baffles people when I just make up an email address with my domain and give it to them on the go (thanks to catch-all).

I have this one thing bothering me. How do we know that SimpleLogin is not making a copy of the email? Do we simply trust SL not to do that or do we have a way to verify it?