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Maily: Your Kids' First Email

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Re: Maily: Your Kids' First Email

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Post by jentulman »

mapleoin wrote: post #18
jentulman wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just found it and posted it, it's not mine, they may not even be aware they've been HN'd. I've tweeted and mailed a link to them, perhaps they'll come play.

You said it's yours in the submission title.

Sorry, as mgkimsal said I should have added some punctuation, "Maily, a 'my first email' app for kids" would have been better.

Re: Maily: Your Kids' First Email

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Post by pooriaazimi »

d0de wrote: post #14
jvdh wrote: post #12

Pro tip: make sure you have enough processing power and bandwidth available before you post things on HN :) 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Any stats on how big the typical HN traffic spike is?

I submitted a few "interesting" questions from StackOverflow last year (by interesting I mean they had interesting subjects, but weren't link-baity; my poor memory has forgotten what they were though!). IIRC, both of them got about 200-250 votes (on HN) and about 20-30 thousand visits. How do I know? I submitted using the share link StackOverflow gives you (it's something like stackoverflow.com/question/1000/2000, which means that user 2000 (me) has linked to question 1000), and about the time they reached 100-120 votes, SO awarded me a badge along the lines of "you shared a link that 10,000 unique IPs have visited".

So, based on my very limited experience: unique visits are about 100 times the number of votes on HN.

Re: Maily: Your Kids' First Email

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Post by troels »

This looks like a good idea. I could certainly see myself using this. It isn't clear from the presentation, but it would be a real annoyance if it only works with ios, as this puts a limit on who my son can mail with this app.

Re: Maily: Your Kids' First Email

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Post by tomgalle »

troels wrote: post #25

This looks like a good idea. I could certainly see myself using this. It isn't clear from the presentation, but it would be a real annoyance if it only works with ios, as this puts a limit on who my son can mail with this app.

Only ios for the moment, but non-iPad users can use the web dashboard to communicate with kids they are close with. Android development foreseen in the future!
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