| A few bits of feedback: * I was confused by the idea of making a “keyword” (no explainer) and why I then had to “create account” (I thought I already made an account by verifying my email?) * I love the concept of burner emails and i’m a happy user of 33mail.com for this purpose, particularly because you get [anything]@[someusername].33mail.com. I tend to sign up for things with an email like amazon.com.274652@[myusername].33mail.com * using my own domain is critical since I can’t be sure how long your service will be around for: if you shut down tomorrow at least all the emails won’t bounce (which could be a nightmare) * something I don’t currently have a solution for is self-deleting forwarders. I’d like to be able to sign up with eg petition.30d@[whatever] and have it make a forwarded that will self destruct * your story / background is really important for a service like this: who are you? Where are you based? Why do you care? I couldn’t find this easily * if you don’t know it already check out Michael Bazzell’s podcast on inteltechniques.com. I wouldn’t have tried 33mail or MySudo without his thorough background research Thanks for working on stuff like this! |
Yep. I'm working on a "How it works" section that'll walk through the whole process with screenshots, to hopefully make this clear before having to sign up.
> using my own domain is critical
Yep, it's on the roadmap: https://kopi-cloud.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/kopiweb/pages/2... I felt I really needed to get something out there to start gathering this sort of feedback. I'm trying to get to an "MVP" where "viable" explicitly means something people are willing to pay for. I'm not sure how many people really want that (even though I know I do personally). Kopi already supports it on the back-end - I run a personal domain on it separately from the ones users can register. But having the core support the feature and having it be ready for public consumption is a different kettle of fish. If you're interested in guinea-pigging something, drop me a line and I can probably get it going quite quickly - in a "do things that don't scale" kind of vein.
> something I don’t currently have a solution for is self-deleting forwarders
Yep, both keywords and addresses in Kopi support an expiry date on the back end because I thought I wanted this personally. But it turned out I didn't really want it enough to even implement it. As opposed to the RSS forwarding that I smashed out in a weekend PoC for myself and now can't live without and desperately want to expand >.<
> your story / background is really important for a service like this
To be honest, I never thought about this at all. Your comment made me think, and it occurs to me I've actually been subconsciously avoiding associating myself with Kopi directly. I'm wary of having much stuff about myself on the internet. I guess I need to think carefully about this and pick a horse.