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Hi, I'm David, one of the developers of nBox.

nBox generates for you an email address for each site, for free.

- Effortlessly thanks to our browser extensions

- Addresses are anonymous and private

- Delete the addresses you don't want any more

- Be notified according to your preferences on each email

I'm looking to share the service. Any feedback is very welcome.

Thanks!

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My hesitation in signing up for any of these unifying products is the potential lock in. If I start using your service and eventually have dozens of sites directed through you, what happens when the product disappears?

My question is therefore how do you plan to fund this indefinitely if it is "Just Free, Forever" and is unlimited? You say it is part of promoting your brand, but it looks like that brand (or at least the domain) has been around for less than a year, so not much history. If it isn't you company's main product, what is to stop you from deciding the costs of providing this becomes too expensive for the promotion it is giving you?

Hi slg, that's a valid concern, here is a copy-paste of an answer I wrote earlier:

I tried to answer it there: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/nbox/comments/483328

I guess that is a fair answer. Thanks for responding.

What's your plan when every site starts banning your addresses? I have to spend 15 minutes to find a new non-blacklisted temp-email service every time I want to use one.

Hi deft, that's a concern we have. Some services might block our addresses some day, but that would be a mistake because nBox is not a disposable email service.

You may allow people to use their own domain ?

Hi ponytech, that's something we're thinking of proposing, but it probably won't come in a very near future.

Can you say something from the service perspective?

Why shouldn't a service flag you as malicious and refuse users with email from your domain?

What do you do to prevent mass account creation on the service?

Thanks!

Hi ecesena,

> Why shouldn't a service flag you as malicious and refuse users with email from your domain?

Some services might block our addresses some day, but that would be a mistake because nBox is not a disposable email service.

> What do you do to prevent mass account creation on the service?

If your question is in regard to services which might block us, I don't think they care about mass account creation, a few email addresses are enough to bypass limits on emails.

Thanks! The non-disposable is a good point.

As for my 2nd question it was related. Often time spammers rely on tools like nbox to create a massive amount of accounts on services like Winterest, so Winterest has to flag your domain as potentially malicious.

I was wondering if you have any countermeasures to this problem, such as a rate limit on the number of accounts one can create per service. I'm sure Winterest would appreciate :)

You mean fraudsters trying to take advantage of account creation on Winterest?

For a given service we authorize only one address, but we haven't implemented a rate-limit yet.

Yes exactly, fraudsters exploiting your service to have as many email as they need to create very many accounts on Winterest.

If you have 1 single email account per service that is fine.

I think you should call out these two aspects on your site, to show that you're increasing privacy for users, but also protecting services from being abused exploiting nbox. It should reduce the likelihood to be blacklisted.

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