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Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by faangguyindia »

fragmede wrote: post #54
faangguyindia wrote: post #29

One of the well-kept secrets about Cloudflare is: You can have a zero-cost inbox. Earlier, I was using Zoho and FastMail (however you dice it, it will use some money, $12 a year for Zoho and $7 per month for FastMail? Even then, perhaps you only get one mailbox and some aliases) but with this method, I get unlimited aliases, domains, and mailboxes: Now, I wrote a script which captures the email and saves attachments…

That's pretty neat! What do you use to send and receive emails on your phone?

once you've emails stored, you can use any webclient.

you can write an api to imap adapter and use it in your favourite mail client

SES exposes SMPT directly.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by terrytys »

_pdp_ wrote: post #51

The reason this blog post does not come with any concrete examples how to use this enablement for useful and constructive things tells you something very important - it is a toy and they do not know who and how they will use it. It is cool feature but to what end? Buying a domain is not something you have to do daily to require any kind of automation. I am also not sure who Stripe Atlas for. I am genuinely confused.…

lol, there are lots of people who aren't developers.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

faangguyindia wrote: post #80
dewey wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not a well kept secret, that's just a workflow that almost nobody would accept for their email setup which is the center of most people's digital identify and should always work and not be a duct taped construct to save a couple of bucks.

isn't cloudflare webworker and email forwarding infra hyperscaling and highly available?

Yeah it's highly available until it isn't and then that turns into your problem rather than something like Gmail just working

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by selcuka »

faangguyindia wrote: post #80
dewey wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not a well kept secret, that's just a workflow that almost nobody would accept for their email setup which is the center of most people's digital identify and should always work and not be a duct taped construct to save a couple of bucks.

isn't cloudflare webworker and email forwarding infra hyperscaling and highly available?

It doesn't change the fact that the workflow gp explains is a duct taped construct.

It's hyperscalable and highly available today, until the API changes.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by forsalebypwner »

caymanjim wrote: post #64
stevefan1999 wrote: post #27

Can I make a bot to buy the domain at the best price, transfer that domain to Cloudflare instead?

Cloudflare's prices are already close to unbeatable. They basically resell at cost. But there's nothing stopping you from doing that if you want.

Cloudflare's prices are very beatable, especially if we're talking about the first year price.

Their name doesn't appear in the first 6 pages (~175 TLDs) of this list https://tldes.com/cheapest-domains

On renewals they appear much more competitive though.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by hansvm »

dgan wrote: post #74

Industry really went from "prove you are not a robot", to "but also if you are, this way please"

About goddamn time. The recent past consisted of discord blocking me because their telemetry was broken and exceeded their rate limit and target blocking me because two devices in a single household look really suspicious.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by faangguyindia »

weird-eye-issue wrote: post #83
faangguyindia wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

isn't cloudflare webworker and email forwarding infra hyperscaling and highly available?

Yeah it's highly available until it isn't and then that turns into your problem rather than something like Gmail just working

that's the thing it cannot stop working because webworker and email forwarding is very reliable, email itself has retries built it and soft bounce handling.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by dewey »

faangguyindia wrote: post #80
dewey wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not a well kept secret, that's just a workflow that almost nobody would accept for their email setup which is the center of most people's digital identify and should always work and not be a duct taped construct to save a couple of bucks.

isn't cloudflare webworker and email forwarding infra hyperscaling and highly available?

It's not about the uptime or scalability. Everyone has to make the choice for themselves if they value their time less than $12/year (Or free if Google is an option) for a critical part of their digital infrastructure to set all these moving parts up and keep them running over years.

I'll stick to Fastmail, where if something isn't working as expected I can just email them and get a response from a real human.

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