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Re: Show HN: Turn an email to a web page

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Post by bambax »

Good! I created a similar thing last year when Posterous died; it sill exists and although it never got any traction I still use it for my blog; it's called urgeous.com and has an API that lets users use it as a service (posts can be displayed from your own domain while being hosted by Urgeous).

Your positionning is certainly superior though, because 'mail2web' is simpler and more fun than 'yet another blogging platform that uses email'...

I never got around to turning attachments on because I was afraid of the hosting costs; how do you plan on dealing with those?

Re: Show HN: Turn an email to a web page

#23

Post by mailpin »

daviding wrote: post #12

Nicely done. Feedback: - Where's your privacy policy detailed? With the nature of the service (gathering email addresses etc) you could head-off lots of questions with that. - A default serif font drags anything down. For me personally I'd prefer another font. - You sensibly replace emails, but other links like 'unsubscribe' remain intact, which could be problematic (don't worry, you'll still get your costco emails a…

Thanks for your feedback!

"Where's your privacy policy detailed? With the nature of the service (gathering email addresses etc) you could head-off lots of questions with that."

We haven't worked out a formal privacy policy ... but of course, user privacy is our top priority! We won't use user emails for anything else. In fact, from the post page, you can't find your email address.

"A default serif font drags anything down. For me personally I'd prefer another font."

We are still improving on the UI ... We would appreciate if you tell us your preferred font :)

"You sensibly replace emails, but other links like 'unsubscribe' remain intact, which could be problematic (don't worry, you'll still get your costco emails although it can sometimes lead to real emails/names)"

We also take care of unsubscribe part if the unsubscribe url contains your email address.

"I guess grouping and parsing is the next step, i.e. process them and provide features around them a la tripit. Is that the direction you might take it?"

Definitely there are many possibilities to explore from what we have right now. We'd like to hear users comments / critiques / suggestions first.

Re: Show HN: Turn an email to a web page

#24

Post by mooreds »

Awesome! I blogged about people sending emails with content that didn't have an associated URL recently (and how that pained my heart): http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/1441

And mailp.in solves that issue perfectly. If someone sends you an email that is chock full of content that should be shared, just mailpin it.

One question: how long are the URL and the content preserved?

Re: Show HN: Turn an email to a web page

#25

Post by mailpin »

mooreds wrote: post #24

Awesome! I blogged about people sending emails with content that didn't have an associated URL recently (and how that pained my heart): http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/1441 And mailp.in solves that issue perfectly. If someone sends you an email that is chock full of content that should be shared, just mailpin it. One question: how long are the URL and the content preserved?

Thanks!

"One question: how long are the URL and the content preserved?"

You decide. If you don't delete it yourself, it'll be there forever. And it's private. You decide who to share with. You decide whether to keep it or not.

We will commit to improving mailpin, making it a robust and useful service.

Re: Show HN: Turn an email to a web page

#26

Post by mailpin »

bambax wrote: post #22

Good! I created a similar thing last year when Posterous died; it sill exists and although it never got any traction I still use it for my blog; it's called urgeous.com and has an API that lets users use it as a service (posts can be displayed from your own domain while being hosted by Urgeous). Your positionning is certainly superior though, because 'mail2web' is simpler and more fun than 'yet another blogging platf…

Thanks for your support!

"I never got around to turning attachments on because I was afraid of the hosting costs; how do you plan on dealing with those?"

As long as users don't delete their posts, we keep them (including attachments) there. If we are running out of storage space, we can add more machines :)

Re: Show HN: Turn an email to a web page

#29

Post by mailpin »

hashbanged wrote: post #27

What are the restrictions on attachment sizes?

For now, we really don't have any restriction on attachment size. We accpect whatever you are allowed to send for your email account.

But definitely we have alerts and closely monitor to prevent something bad happens.

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