Outhorse Your Email

Every once in a while I must succumb my natural aversion towards marketers and give a tip of the hat. This is definitely one of them. Absolutely brilliant and creative thinking!

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by jonathanlydall » Thu, May 19, 2022, 10:26 AM UTC

Although the article's content is way more fun, when I initially saw the title I thought the article was going to be about a phishing email somebody had received with bad spelling/grammar.

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by shmageggy » Thu, May 19, 2022, 10:27 AM UTC

I have a few qualms with this app:

1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by streaming from /dev/urandom, mapping to cardinal directions and simulating a random walk on the keyboard.

2. It doesn't actually replace an email autoresponder. Most people I know will put things like their return date in the auto-response.

3. It does not seem very "scalable" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but it seems that down the road this may require a lot of horses.

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by Hamuko » Thu, May 19, 2022, 10:29 AM UTC

ethbr0 wrote: post #4

In case you thought they took the easy way, behind the scenes video: https://vimeo.com/710288765/5e14861065 (linked on site)

Is the audio beyond fucked or is it just my machine?