This is great. One use case: my grandma who struggled to learn how to use email can now make websites.
Thanks! Our goal is to keep it simple. It's just like many things in life, it's always harder to decide what not to do than deciding what to do.
Show HN: Turn an email to a web page
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#32"This picture shows how we created this page:" (Checks picture...) Picture contains: "This picture shows how we created this page:" Picture of picture contains... ...there it breaks. But you were on to something recursive for a while.
haha, interesting..., chicken and egg problem.
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#33Very good idea, I'll use it. just a heads up though.
Abusers will abuse, and it seems that you are only going to consider restrictions and security overall after it happens.
Set some alerts so you at least get a warning before the server goes down.
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#34Very good idea, I'll use it. just a heads up though. Abusers will abuse, and it seems that you are only going to consider restrictions and security overall after it happens. Set some alerts so you at least get a warning before the server goes down.
Thanks! Will do!
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#35Nicely 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…
Just to clarify what I meant by the 'unsubscribe' part, many newsletters (like your Costco example from the OP) contain an unsubscribe link without an email but with a unique id in the href. When clicking this you often get to a page that then lets you unsubscribe and sometimes also see who the address was subscribed too, which defeats the purpose. I'm not sure what would be the ideal solution, but you could hit it with a hammer and remove all hrefs from the content in the email DOM, or perhaps parse explicitly for unsubscribe links (harder, as they vary, a bit of NLP etc). Alternatively, just consider the page as 'not for hostiles', in that the user should only share with people who wouldn't hunt for mischief in the first place.
For next steps and parsing, it really depends on if you want to store a user graph your end, i.e. do you want to also initiate the 'share' and know who is looking at the link? If you do then the features go in one direction (collaboration, conversations, actionable stuff) but if you don't want that then it's sort of a different animal (formatting, i.e. galleries, content suggestions and the like).
For a font, Helvetica Neue or anything in that family is all the rage ;)
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#36Do you know if google index your pages ? and how it can find all the pages or links ?
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#37Do you know if google index your pages ? and how it can find all the pages or links ?
If you put your link to public places like hacker news, then google will find it.
If you simply create a post page and keep it to yourself or share in a closed social network (e.g., IM, facebook private group ...) that cannot be indexed by google, then you are good.
That said, you decide to what degree you want to share your page.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Just to clarify what I meant by the 'unsubscribe' part, many newsletters (like your Costco example from the OP) contain an unsubscribe link without an email but with a unique id in the href. When clicking this you often get to a page that then lets you unsubscribe and sometimes also see who the address was subscribed too, which defeats the purpose. I'm not sure what would be the ideal solution, but you could hit it w…
Thank for your insightful feedback! It's really really helpful! We'll think through it :)
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#39Nicely 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…
Please consider keeping the default serif font. It lends an air of humble authenticity to the service, giving the impression that it's hosted by some no-BS people who want an alternative to the glossy and boring options for social media.
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#40Can you add so that people can append their emails / attachments to the existing page? Even SMS messages? You can add twitter message to it latter on...