Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail
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Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail
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Re: Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail
#2I despise junk mail and last night I decided to surrender to my emotions. I built an emotional app that retaliates against junk mail. It is a usable experiment in appealing to people's emotions and using an API for real world interaction.
Introducting F Junk Mail! - http://fjunkmail.com/. It sends real world postcards to junk mail senders. Currently, it has Charter listed. More companies/addresses are on the way, but you can also enter your own address in.
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#3"I think this is a fair price for the joy of retaliating against junk mail. Plus, it costs me time and money to deliver these postcards."
What work is on your end? It appears that Sincerely prints/ships it, and the $2 charge is to pay for that.
Re: Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail
#4Retaliate is misspelt in the subheader.
Re: Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail
#5fire with fire? i like the post card art!
two criticisms; the whole idea is a bit hypocritical (sending more spam) and doesn't address the underlying issue of spam mail. Have a place to sign up for a "do not spam" list on your website and give users the option to "F JUNK MAIL" for $2.00. Also, I think you should make the price $1 because sending a post card has a known price and it's quite easy to do so offline. Why should they use your service and pay more?
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#6I really like the site - good job! I think the cover page example should be related to a Nigerian bank scam though - everyone recognizes those "A prince passed away, you are 20th in line...collect your millions!" and I think it'd be a lot funnier/relatable than Charter :)
Re: Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail
#7Retaliate is misspelt in the subheader.
Thank you. Fixed.
Re: Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail
#8"I think this is a fair price for the joy of retaliating against junk mail. Plus, it costs me time and money to deliver these postcards." What work is on your end? It appears that Sincerely prints/ships it, and the $2 charge is to pay for that.
Fair question. That sentence is geared towards non-programmers (which is of course an audience outside of Hacker News) Think of it this way:
Sincerely is an extension of me because I have to pay them 99 cents per postcard so it is costing me 'time' (but in this case I am paying for that 'time' with money). Then on top of that I need to pay Stripe 36 cents to collect. Same principle.
But maybe I need to come up with a better/more-convincing sentence there to justify the $2. Additionally, if the idea actually catches on (it was just a friday night project) then I'll put the effort into closing the margin and finding a more affordable print/ship api.
Re: Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail
#9fire with fire? i like the post card art! two criticisms; the whole idea is a bit hypocritical (sending more spam) and doesn't address the underlying issue of spam mail. Have a place to sign up for a "do not spam" list on your website and give users the option to "F JUNK MAIL" for $2.00. Also, I think you should make the price $1 because sending a post card has a known price and it's quite easy to do so offline. Why…
I love the idea of a 'do not junk mail' list as part of the payment fee. Anyone know of an api or form to submit someone's address to (with their consent of course) in order to be added to a 'do not junk mail' list?
Re: Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail
#10I really like the site - good job! I think the cover page example should be related to a Nigerian bank scam though - everyone recognizes those "A prince passed away, you are 20th in line...collect your millions!" and I think it'd be a lot funnier/relatable than Charter :)
haha, that would be funny but those are 'spam' based, right? I am targeting real world 'junk' mail with this.