Comment by showmypost | Hacker News Reader

Comment by showmypost | Hacker News Reader

This looks really exciting but I want to warn that this fulfills the following criteria:

- feels to good to be free

- it targets a problem that we all sense and fear when we interact with other people

- the privacy and security policy is legally invalid in California and the EU (missing both is quite weird as they’re very well known privacy standards)

- the email address listed inside the privacy and security policy is invalid

Before trying their service I attempted to request a proper privacy policy via their listed email address which returns me an error saying that this address doesn’t exist.

As Slack is listed as a company that backs this service, I just reached out to their support team to cross-check the authenticity of this new service. This is getting exciting..

it’s not slack listed as a company but rather “professionals from”…

> Trusted by professionals from

This is a growing trend I’ve noticed - it’s a bit of a fake call to legitimacy

(It’s also virtually impossible to prove or disprove when it’s a large company!)

Some companies strictly forbid using their logos in this form (I worked for one). A takedown notice is sent at first sight.

It works, but makes sponsoring open source, events, etc a lot more painful due to the approvals needed.

Sounds a bit like they are a startup with very limited time and resources to me. I hope they haven't outright lied about endorsements, however they are building something I quite like the look of and would find personally useful (especially after the horrors of my terrible YC application video), however it looks very expensive to run... I think free is a bit of a worry but it also implies they might not have built that bit yet. Let's see if they show up in the comments to assuage your concerns.

It's pretty clear what/who the product is here ...

If this was a downloadable offline app, I'd be happy to give it a try. But uploading deepfake training data into the cloud? No thanks.

I'm glad there are people out there like you to keep people honest but man, I could never imagine doing what you've just outlined.

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