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Re: Show HN: Publishthis.email – Create a web page in seconds, by sending an email

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Very nice. I would love to read a list of use-cases, but I'm ok if they don't exist, because this is just a nice hack. Reminds of https://github.com/fiatjaf/questo.email

Thanks. The idea was simply - what if you could publish a page by sending an email, but several use cases have come to mind since:

- The quickest way to create a simple web page. - Blogging without having to create an account. - Organisational email transparency - either within organisations, or publicly. - Archiving email threads. - Sharing long threads of correspondence without adding to the thread further.

Re: Show HN: Publishthis.email – Create a web page in seconds, by sending an email

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Very nice. I would love to read a list of use-cases, but I'm ok if they don't exist, because this is just a nice hack. Reminds of https://github.com/fiatjaf/questo.email

Another creator here. We have no specific use cases, but the ideas floating around my head: 1) Leaking controversial conversations, whistleblowing, or simply sharing interesting emails. 2) Being one of the fastest ways to publish, could be a new blogging platform, especially for the older generation who is more comfortable with email. 3) Transparency for businesses/government through public archiving.

I would love to hear other ideas.

Re: Show HN: Publishthis.email – Create a web page in seconds, by sending an email

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How are you dealing with email? I recently started looking at this and it was a bit more annoying than I hoped for. Currently it seems like I am settling down with Python + imaplib/email modules and a lot of stack overflow Q/A's.

Re: Show HN: Publishthis.email – Create a web page in seconds, by sending an email

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post #2

Very nice. I would love to read a list of use-cases, but I'm ok if they don't exist, because this is just a nice hack. Reminds of https://github.com/fiatjaf/questo.email

Another creator here. We have no specific use cases, but the ideas floating around my head: 1) Leaking controversial conversations, whistleblowing, or simply sharing interesting emails. 2) Being one of the fastest ways to publish, could be a new blogging platform, especially for the older generation who is more comfortable with email. 3) Transparency for businesses/government through public archiving. I would love to…

> 1) Leaking controversial conversations, whistleblowing, or simply sharing interesting emails.

Hmmm if this is a goal you should support encryption.

Perhaps provide a public key and have an auto decryption mechanism with your private key.

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