This is great. One use case: my grandma who struggled to learn how to use email can now make websites.
Show HN: Turn an email to a web page
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#12Nicely done. Feedback:
- Where's your privacy policy detailed? With the nature of the service (gathering email addresses etc) you could head-off lots of questions with that.
- A default serif font drags anything down. For me personally I'd prefer another font.
- You sensibly replace emails, but other links like 'unsubscribe' remain intact, which could be problematic (don't worry, you'll still get your costco emails although it can sometimes lead to real emails/names).
- I guess grouping and parsing is the next step, i.e. process them and provide features around them a la tripit. Is that the direction you might take it?
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#13Thread.is tried to do this a couple years ago. Gone now. Not sure there's a good use case for it. Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20121118205935/https://beta.threa... Twitter: https://twitter.com/threadhq
I used Posterous a fair bit to do blogging by email when abroad. Attach photos from my phone and it auto-created a gallery. Saved a lot of time.
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#14Email is for me a convenient way to pass data.
And client are more easy to manage or interact with emails.
And one of the best is that you can keep your data with emails an decentralised it.
Very nice works, the idea is pleasant i'am thinking on a private open source network. Would you mind if i use your idea ?
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#15Email is for me a convenient way to pass data. And client are more easy to manage or interact with emails. And one of the best is that you can keep your data with emails an decentralised it. Very nice works, the idea is pleasant i'am thinking on a private open source network. Would you mind if i use your idea ?
I am thinking that it could be a way to make a extended kind of mailing list.
A maling list where you can publish things more easily ....
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry, you have written a very similar message to the comments section of the given link. It smells spam.
What do you mean? Yes, he posted another message endorsing mailp.in in the comments and here he's reaching out for a collaboration. I don't see why it would be spam just because he's mentioning his product.
It seems primarily because his comments aren't adding significant value without mentioning his product. Take out the product, and it's basically "Awesome!".
A low value comment + product mentions = spammy smell.
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#17I like the idea. I can't think of a specific use-case for me yet, but email integrated apps are often pretty cool and make for easier adoption.
We (as developers of mailpin) use the services ourselves:
1. Ad hoc image album. Put a bunch of images as attachments in an email and send to p@mailp.in to create a simple page.
2. Forward company receipts to p@mailp.in and create a page, and share the link in coworkers ... (this sounds weird ... but it works well for us ...)
3. Forward marketing spams to create page, and publicly share such pages to denounce those spammers :)
4. Forward paper acceptance latters or other letters to create pages, and share them to show off -- vanity!
5. Ad hoc blogging ... Don't want to have an account, don't want people to follow me. But occasionally, we still want to say something and share to Friends that we really trust.
6. Create a playlist of youtube videos. Put a bunch of youtube links and send to p@mailp.in. A page with embedded videos will be created. We don't have youtube accounts ... sorry ... but still want to share a bunch of videos with friends ...
7. Tweet more than 140 characters. Create a page with short url, and tweet!
There would be more use cases. The point is, we want something dead simple. No registration, no app (well, email client is still needed ...), and private.
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#18Email is for me a convenient way to pass data. And client are more easy to manage or interact with emails. And one of the best is that you can keep your data with emails an decentralised it. Very nice works, the idea is pleasant i'am thinking on a private open source network. Would you mind if i use your idea ?
I am thinking that it could be a way to make a extended kind of mailing list. A maling list where you can publish things more easily ....
And again what please me is tahat oy decentralised the things why not make comment for a post with emails too ?
Did you read this ? http://mobisocial.stanford.edu/papers/mrprivacy.pdf
Re: Show HN: Turn an email to a web page
#19Thread.is tried to do this a couple years ago. Gone now. Not sure there's a good use case for it. Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20121118205935/https://beta.threa... Twitter: https://twitter.com/threadhq
I used Posterous a fair bit to do blogging by email when abroad. Attach photos from my phone and it auto-created a gallery. Saved a lot of time.
Ditto. The best part was that offline "just worked": I could compose the post in GMail and it would send once I had a signal.
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#20Cool hidden feature: it obfuscates any email address mentioned in the post.