Maily: Your Kids' First Email • Hacker News Board

Re: Maily: Your Kids' First Email

#41

Post by BostX » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 4:00 PM UTC

This is Tom. One day Tom realizes instead of siblings he's been having gadgets... Great work guys.

Re: Maily: Your Kids' First Email

#42

Post by michael37 » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 4:05 PM UTC

tomgalle wrote: post #37

simon wrote: post #36

I love this idea. I have some pre-teens that I would love to allow to send more email while having control over who they can reach. Any plans for other than iPad?

Glad you like Maily! We're planning to develop an android version in the coming months.

Another +1 for non-iPad application. Kids love sharing information, but even young reading kids can't type well.

I'd see as much value in HTML5 in-browser app as in Android tablet app.

Re: Maily: Your Kids' First Email

#43

Post by CubicleNinjas » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 4:24 PM UTC

Beautiful idea that is presented compellingly. Wonderful!

Re: Maily: Your Kids' First Email

#44

Post by pixelcort » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 4:48 PM UTC

Looks like this is being run from Belgium. Do COPPA laws affect US children that may try to use this service?

Re: Maily: Your Kids' First Email

#45

Post by alan57 » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 5:53 PM UTC

I think kids spend way too much time on phones, tablets and computers. I want my kids playing outside, not staring at a screen.

Re: Maily: Your Kids' First Email

#46

Post by DavidAdams » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 6:08 PM UTC

Free copyediting: You've got a "grocer's apostrophe" on your more info page: photo's --> photos

http://www.maily.com/Learn-More http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Superfluous_apostrop...

Re: Maily: Your Kids' First Email

#47

Post by dangrossman » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 6:21 PM UTC

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?

#1 on HN for almost a full day: ~21,000 visits and at peak 815 people with the site open at once.

Re: Maily: Your Kids' First Email

#48

Post by d0de » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 8:05 PM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #47

d0de wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

#1 on HN for almost a full day: ~21,000 visits and at peak 815 people with the site open at once.

Huh. Less than I thought, somehow.

Re: Maily: Your Kids' First Email

#49

Post by peapicker » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 9:53 PM UTC

DavidAdams wrote: post #46

Free copyediting: You've got a "grocer's apostrophe" on your more info page: photo's --> photos http://www.maily.com/Learn-More http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Superfluous_apostrop...

Yeah, that drives me nuts when I see it.

Re: Maily: Your Kids' First Email

#50

Post by connortomas » Tue, Oct 02, 2012, 12:12 AM UTC

tomdeakin wrote: post #22

Having watched the video my first thoughts were why can't (for eg) the child's grandma reply using her email client. Why does grandma have to login to the website?

I presume one reason (as suggested in the video) is that Maily wants to promote "kid-friendly" email replies. I imagine kids (particularly the very young) would find it more fun to receive a visual reply than a standard email reply.