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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
#12"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…
Ah, got it. I didn't realize strip takes that much, but it makes sense given it's a small purchase.
I think it's better to charge $2 instead of ~$1.35.
The even 2 looks like less money at a glance, plus you get to keep some.
Re: Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail
#13lots more of these sites can pop up with https://github.com/niftylettuce/node-sincerely
Re: Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Ah, got it. I didn't realize strip takes that much, but it makes sense given it's a small purchase. I think it's better to charge $2 instead of ~$1.35. The even 2 looks like less money at a glance, plus you get to keep some.
It felt like a lot to me. $1.90 might be worth testing.
Re: Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail
#15I 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, bu…
I can't see a way for the offending company to fix the problem. A little formality and the recipient email address on the card would add function to fun. Something like "please remove name@example.com from all of your mailing lists. All means anything you are associated with. Remove means I never want to see your emails again. "
Re: Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah, got it. I didn't realize strip takes that much, but it makes sense given it's a small purchase. I think it's better to charge $2 instead of ~$1.35. The even 2 looks like less money at a glance, plus you get to keep some.
It felt like a lot to me. $1.90 might be worth testing.
$1.99, perhaps? There was a pricing article on HN a few days ago that pointed out that the 99 cent thing really works, even if no one really seemed to have pinned down why.
Re: Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail
#17I 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, bu…
I can't see a way for the offending company to fix the problem. A little formality and the recipient email address on the card would add function to fun. Something like "please remove name@example.com from all of your mailing lists. All means anything you are associated with. Remove means I never want to see your emails again. "
It is a good thought. For now people can do that by changing the text of the message. I didn't want to require people to enter their private information.
Re: Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail
#18So I just received my Saturday mail. Of the 3 items, 2 were junk mail.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/190299/junk-mail.JPG
One is direct tv with a low trick of a $200 'prepaid card'. This is why I really like companies like http://simple.com. If you guys haven't signed up for simple definitely do. I've been really impressed.
Anyways, I think I will add direct tv on my list next for F Junk Mail.
Re: Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail
#19Really nice idea, nice work man. There's just one thing though that worries me unless I misunderstand how it's all setup. But I noticed your popup where you enter credit card details is being displayed on a non-https encrypted page. Are credit card details safe to enter, are they encrypted in any way? I could be wrong and you could be using something like Stripe or a 3rd party payment API, I wanted to enter my credit card details to test it all out but was worried.
Re: Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail
#20Or you can use https://www.paperkarma.com/ which is less passive-aggressive and more free.