Make sure and watch the video -- excellent satire on the "local ambulance chaser ad". These guys are having a lot of fun.
Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter
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Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter
#142> A official-looking legal letter [...] Surprise someone Having received actual legal letters before, my personal experience is that I would much rather receive normal looking holiday cards to encourage me in continuing whatever I was doing, rather than being surprised by official-looking letters. It might be different if this service offered help in other ways, but currently it seems like a practical joke of dubious…
Yeah, rather dark lawyer humor, I guess. No thanks.
Yeah. It is one of those kind of things where one might think that the recipient will first carefully read the letter and then form an opinion on it.
But in reality people will form an emotional response just based on the appearance of it. And even after they read it they might be left perplexed and some might spend further resources to figure out if this is a legal threat in some way.
I would find such a letter in incredibly bad taste, and think of whoever sent it to me or caused it to be sent worse than before.
Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter
#143What a brilliant idea! It's a shame this is USA-only - would be nice to get that added to the HN title.
I can see why they would have this restriction, but there IS a payment option, so they could offer it with whatever feels is required. Still, all the best US cousins!
Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think part of the package is the official-looking envelope from the LLP, transparent window and all. It won't have the same effect if you just download a PDF, print it out, and mail it in a generic envelope with a handwritten address on it.
Fair enough, although I'd love to see that as an upsell instead.
I'm not sure if they changed it after your comment, but right now there is clearly two options. One where you can get a google doc and just use theirs as a template, and one where they send it for you.
Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. Have we reached peak data privacy paranoia? Harmless lil projects that harken back to the good ol' days of the internet are somehow actually devious PII honeypots? Why do people think their data is so valuable on its own without being connected to their actual consumer related behavior? Truly, what is a name and address wort…
The name and address is valuable because it can be matched to offline behavior through a bill you pay or rewards membership you are enrolled in to further enrich the data associated with id_8z6748dxzh and combine it with your shopping history at Macy's and Safeway, for instance. This is even more valuable when combined with your cellular bill. I've work in ad tech,and with CDPs for nearly 20 years.
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Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
or... maybe this is just a fun side project they whipped up as a joke? Some side project for a resume? Just look at OP's comment history, one example: > I absolutely love making chrome extensions - my very first one was creating an extension for tinder.com that would swipe left on anyone with the first name Chad All they require here is your name and email, and the recipient's name and address. Both are (probably) pu…
Why not just make a pdf or a copy paste version? I get suspicious when extra work is done to make worse ux; my assumption is that it rarely happens without a hidden incentive.
Not all of us have printers, for a start.
Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter
#147It's a clever concept, but I'm leery of having someone send a letter on my behalf to someone. You all haven't trademarked the idea, have you? I think I'll just write a few of these up myself and send them out.
Also, I don't actually have a physical mailing addresses for people I would like to send something like this to, like maintainers for my favorite open source projects.
True, this service doesn't solve every one of humanity's problems. But even if you just get inspired to do something similar by email, or however else you can contact a maintainer, then it's had some success for you.
Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter
#148@continueandpersist.org please continue and persist :)
Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fair enough, although I'd love to see that as an upsell instead.
I'm not sure if they changed it after your comment, but right now there is clearly two options. One where you can get a google doc and just use theirs as a template, and one where they send it for you.
Yes! We added it in later so people could make their own!
Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree so much, but the pessimist in me says that this isn't _really_ free, and I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. If this was publicly available document so I could fill in the missing bits, I'd send a dozen of these tomorrow.
> I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. Have we reached peak data privacy paranoia? Harmless lil projects that harken back to the good ol' days of the internet are somehow actually devious PII honeypots? Why do people think their data is so valuable on its own without being connected to their actual consumer related behavior? Truly, what is a name and address wort…
> Harmless lil projects
Currently: a letter choosing formal legal vocabulary (/s) to create social network metadata, endorse human activity ("you'd like the recipient to continue doing"), disclose someone else's physical address and record the interaction in the national postal system.
Future, https://continueandpersist.org/terms-of-service-privacy-poli...
We may share Your personal information in the following situations:
For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.