Show HN: TrashEmail – Telegram-based disposable mail service
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#2Feedback for the OP: I didn't understand how this works, and am reluctant to start a bot just to figure it out. It would be helpful if you could add some screenshots showing how email address creation, deletion and email receipt work (please do not use GIFs, just a set of static images are enough).
Tangentially on Telegram bots, one of the things I dislike with privacy on Telegram is that the user ID (an internal Telegram generated number, not to be confused with your chosen username) given to bots is static. It's not an ID per bot and there's no way to change the ID without deleting your Telegram account and creating it again later (I'm not sure if it changes then either). Bots can also see and save your name (as entered on the profile) on Telegram. This makes it easier for bots (or bot swarms) to track users on Telegram. (AFAIK, Telegram bots don't get the phone number of the user; it'd be terrible if they did).
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#3Telegram is such an underappreciated platform. It has many features other platforms lack, is reasonably privacy-friendly, more so than fb/whatsapp/etc, but not enough to sacrifice features or UX. The have an API ind both official and unofficial clients for almost all platforms, including command line and native, non-electron Windows (UWP). The client API is not easy to use, as crypto and similar features are involved, but C libraries exist. On the other hand, the bot API is one of the most pleasant APIs I've ever seen. It just works, can be tested in the browser, there's no oAuth crap one needs to set up. It's beautifully simple. I use Telegram whenever I can, and it has become my goto Messenger these days.
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#4Telegram is such an underappreciated platform. It has many features other platforms lack, is reasonably privacy-friendly, more so than fb/whatsapp/etc, but not enough to sacrifice features or UX. The have an API ind both official and unofficial clients for almost all platforms, including command line and native, non-electron Windows (UWP). The client API is not easy to use, as crypto and similar features are involved…
Privacy-wise Whatsapp is probably better due to E2E.
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#5The problem with disposable mail is that it gets blocked quite often. For example, I have a list with more than 3000 domains of disposable mail servers and you can’t register or comment with such a mail on saashub.com or libhunt.com
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#6What’s the point of implementing this as a telegram bot rather than a website? I guess it’s a USP, considering there are hundreds of disposable email websites out there, but I don’t see how it enhances the user experience.
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#7Telegram is such an underappreciated platform. It has many features other platforms lack, is reasonably privacy-friendly, more so than fb/whatsapp/etc, but not enough to sacrifice features or UX. The have an API ind both official and unofficial clients for almost all platforms, including command line and native, non-electron Windows (UWP). The client API is not easy to use, as crypto and similar features are involved…
> Telegram is such an underappreciated platform.
Seriously, that's how I feel whenever someone asks me for my WhatsApp number (no, I don't use WhatsApp, and there's nothing called a WhatsApp number) or asks me about Facebook Messenger. Great UX, fast and new features added at a pace that puts other chat platforms to shame.
[I won't talk about the security aspect in this comment, since it has been rehashed many times here]
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#8Telegram is such an underappreciated platform. It has many features other platforms lack, is reasonably privacy-friendly, more so than fb/whatsapp/etc, but not enough to sacrifice features or UX. The have an API ind both official and unofficial clients for almost all platforms, including command line and native, non-electron Windows (UWP). The client API is not easy to use, as crypto and similar features are involved…
Privacy-wise Whatsapp is probably better due to E2E.
Depends on what you prefer. WhatsApp shares your messaging metadata with Facebook. WhatsApp also exposes your phone number to everyone else (for example, in groups). Telegram does not expose your phone number to others by default, and you can even make sure that phone number enumeration attacks can't be carried out (like the authorities did in Hong Kong last year).
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#9Cool idea for a bot. Suggestion: the UI could use more polish. You can use a conversational UI instead of `/create `, `/delete `. Also, it would be nice to have a command that generates a random user ID instead of having to type something in.
Re: Show HN: TrashEmail – Telegram-based disposable mail service
#10Telegram is such an underappreciated platform. It has many features other platforms lack, is reasonably privacy-friendly, more so than fb/whatsapp/etc, but not enough to sacrifice features or UX. The have an API ind both official and unofficial clients for almost all platforms, including command line and native, non-electron Windows (UWP). The client API is not easy to use, as crypto and similar features are involved…
Privacy-wise Whatsapp is probably better due to E2E.
AFAIK, WhatsApp has decent E2EE, but metadata is not encrypted. So even though Facebook can't see what you are saying, it can see to whom you are saying it, how often, at what times etc.