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Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by macspoofing »

modzu wrote: post #35
swongel wrote: post #5

You can use Mailinator to do this already, you can see all of their inboxes on their website and you can use all of their domains to bypass domain restrictions. For example I might use somethingsilly@bobmail.info and it will be redirected to https://www.mailinator.com/v3/index.jsp?zone=public&query=so...

but the list of mailinator domains is easily looked up and blacklisted by most major sites. the op's insight is that sites won't blacklist gmail

>the op's insight is that sites won't blacklist gmail

Why would you blacklist gmail.com when you can blacklist 'GuerillaClick@gmail.com'?

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by crb002 »

nine_k wrote: post #23

This is delightfully crazy. Give some random guys with no website your registration record somewhere, allow them to verify your registration as theirs, and then impersonate you, reset passwords, see any communications, possibly log in as yourself and do anything. All this with no recourse. Nigerian spammers moan from envy for such a brilliant self-propelled gullibility filter.

Unless you don't want an account. So many things require stupid email verification just to get at no transactional stuff like content.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by judge2020 »

bdcravens wrote: post #92
alpb wrote: post #68

Why do you call this a "startup"? It's a nice hack for sure but I'm not sure if it's has a prospect of being a business.

Because overwhelmingly the HN crowd thinks building an app is building a startup.

The product is a big part of a business, so if you have one, all you need is a business partner and VC's to create a multi-million dollar company.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by CapacitorSet »

close04 wrote: post #80
cenal wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can point your own domain to mailinator mx records for free. Don’t have a domain to throw spam at? Pick a sub domain and use that.

I used Mailinator as the quick solution to access some one time resources on websites that forced me to register. It was the simplicity of the throwaway email that made it attractive to me. But when it's blocked on a website I usually wouldn't want to bother with c more complicated setup. If the effort is justified then I can probably use a regular email address. Other people might have different use cases.

Pointing your MX records to Mailinator is a one-time small effort, then it's just a matter to sending mail to whatever@yourdomain.com.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by judge2020 »

reaperducer wrote: post #90

guerillaclick+eralp@gmail.com guerillaclick+sdfaskdma@gmail.com guerillaclick+111@gmail.com Unfortunately, more and more services are rejecting + e-mail addresses. Either ignoring them, or flagging them as an error. While it's perfectly within the RFC, companies are catching on to the trick. (3M, I'm looking at you!)

It's within RFC, but they all lead to one email inbox so you end up being able to manage multiple third-party accounts from a single email account. It's recommended to not reject these, but strip them: https://gist.github.com/judge2020/af8fb9cd2ac165462d44de4e58...

https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo...

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by basil-rash »

faissaloo wrote: post #50
sleepychu wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In that regard though, it's not different to existing throwaway email services. I'd use this sort of thing for registering for annoying things like "free" wifi.

Most free wifi hotspots don't verify your email fyi

To some extent, they can't. (How do you verify the email without being on the wifi?)
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