Great product and clear marketing website. I particularly like how focused the product is.
One thing that really stands out for me is the detail and effort you've put in to the help and privacy documents. Good job!
Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service
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#12Hey, been using this for a few weeks now. Been an absolute game-changer. So refreshing to have something open-source with privacy at the heart of it.
Super user friendly, great dashboard. Considering upgrading to the pro version - how long is your black friday offer available?
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#13Really polished, congratulations!
I agree with the anonaddy.com alias, and saw that you added another one for people on lite/pro plans.
I'm just unclear on how the bring-your-own-domain feature works.
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#14How are the monthly limits on bandwidth calculated? Does it include images and attachments?
Each time a new email is received Postfix calculates its size in bytes. A column in the database is then simply incremented by that size when the email is forwarded or a reply is sent. At the start of each month your bandwidth is reset to 0.
Yes the size does include images and attachments.
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#15Congrats willbrowning, this looks lovely!
I've been using Mailinator for this sort of thing but I'm finding most of their domains have been increasingly blacklisted on many lead capture forms. And their paid plan that allows custom domains is not priced for this kind of use case.
(Frankly I'm worried your pricing is too low.)
Looks like it's time to go dust off one of those domains I've been sitting on... :)
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#16Really polished, congratulations! I agree with the anonaddy.com alias, and saw that you added another one for people on lite/pro plans. I'm just unclear on how the bring-your-own-domain feature works.
Thank you very much.
When you create an account there is a page called domains, it provides instructions on how to add the correct MX record to your custom domain in order to allow the server to handle inbound emails.
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#17Hey, been using this for a few weeks now. Been an absolute game-changer. So refreshing to have something open-source with privacy at the heart of it. Super user friendly, great dashboard. Considering upgrading to the pro version - how long is your black friday offer available?
Thanks a lot! I've tried to be as transparent as possible along the way.
That would be great, it is valid until midnight this Friday PST. The coupon code is BLACKFRIDAY50
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#18This looks great!
The only note would be pricing? Margins look too low for the tech product? You need to sustainably acquire and maintain a very large user base in order to make it work, the larger the base the more expensive maintenance will be, can potentially be dangerous. Let me know if I'm missing something.
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#19Congrats willbrowning, this looks lovely! I've been using Mailinator for this sort of thing but I'm finding most of their domains have been increasingly blacklisted on many lead capture forms. And their paid plan that allows custom domains is not priced for this kind of use case. (Frankly I'm worried your pricing is too low.) Looks like it's time to go dust off one of those domains I've been sitting on... :)
Awesome, thanks!
I did start the service with just the Pro plan at $36 per year or $4 per month.
I received quite a lot of feedback from users asking for a cheaper plan that would allow 1 custom domain etc. which is why I eventually added the Lite plan.
As long as it makes enough to pay for itself I'll be happy as I made it to solve a problem for myself initially.
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#20Hey, been using this for a few weeks now. Been an absolute game-changer. So refreshing to have something open-source with privacy at the heart of it. Super user friendly, great dashboard. Considering upgrading to the pro version - how long is your black friday offer available?
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