Shortwave Snail Mail
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Shortwave Snail Mail
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#2The url https://.to also works, but HN apparently doesn't support emoji domain names...
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#3I thought this was going to be about Winlink for some reason..
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#4Sorry, my email address is worth more than 58 cents
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#6If you are not paying for the product then you are the product. They are not transparent at all about how they are monetizing this, which seems really scammy.
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#7The url https://.to also works, but HN apparently doesn't support emoji domain names...
Good thing too,
Emoji domains are a readability disaster.
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#8Or if you actually want to send shortwave snail mail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARRL_Radiogram
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#9If you are not paying for the product then you are the product. They are not transparent at all about how they are monetizing this, which seems really scammy.
Hey I'm an employee at shortwave.com (the startup behind this). I totally understand the pessimism - to be totally transparent, this is a marketing campaign to get our name out there.
We're an email company, so why not send "real" mail during the holidays. We're not trying to make money doing this and it's a limited time offer :)
There is really just a couple people with some printer templates, stamps, letters and some hot wax[1].
[1] We ordered a custom wax seal with our logo on it for this (pictures on the website) which I think looks great.
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#10If you are not paying for the product then you are the product. They are not transparent at all about how they are monetizing this, which seems really scammy.
Hey I'm an employee at shortwave.com (the startup behind this). I totally understand the pessimism - to be totally transparent, this is a marketing campaign to get our name out there. We're an email company, so why not send "real" mail during the holidays. We're not trying to make money doing this and it's a limited time offer :) There is really just a couple people with some printer templates, stamps, letters and so…
Are there other ads besides the wax seal? Am I going to end up sending my grandmother a packet of information about your company along with my holiday card?