Show HN: Create private emails like you create passwords (opens in new tab)

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3 pointsbojanstef41y ago2 comments

Hi HN,

Personally, I find it infuriatingly annoying how many emails I get. Especially as an early adopter, I like to try out new products but I hate getting marketing emails for life.

Even worse, we've gotten to the point where even unsubscribing isn't enough. Companies are required by law to send you policy updates (Privacy, GDPR, etc...). It's genuinely ridiculous.

There's different classes of solutions to this:

Subaddressing: yourname+SERVICE@gmail.com, but its very simple for adversaries to get around this and leak your main email.

Disposable emails: yopmail or temp-mail, but they're not privacy friendly at all.

Mail-server relay forwarding: Apple iCloud+ and Firefox Relay.

HideMail uses ProtonMail's simplelogin API to generate and help you manage email aliases for any account.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

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KomoD1y ago

> Personally, I find it infuriatingly annoying how many emails I get

And I find it infuriatingly annoying when people post waitlists as Show HN when the guidelines specifically says:

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

bojanstef4OP1y ago

Thanks for pointing that out, will post in the appropriate thread in the future

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