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Time for grumpy HN comment #1:

Sounds like a perfect candidate for a "Thanks for being part of our incredible journey, we have been acquired by ntrepnr! Isn't that awesome and wonderfully great! Oh, by the way, you have 7 days until we delete all your receipts." ;)

Why would you put important things like these in the butt? Why does one need an account? Why share receipts with a third party?

What is your exit strategy? Do you have export functionality already built? Where are the terms of service? Privacy policy? How is the project funded?

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  Why would you put important things like these in the butt

Did you just get hoisted by Cloud-To-Butt[1]?

[1] https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt

Thanks for the clarification. I thought it was a typo for bucket.

I like to provide the joys of it for people who don't have it installed. ;)

Thanks for the feedback. I'll be sure to be address these issues on the website. I haven't thought that far into it. It's still in scratch my own itch phase.

>What is your exit strategy? Do you have export functionality already built? Where are the terms of service? Privacy policy? How is the project funded?

I feel bad about this having gone through it myself. You'll get screamed at for not pushing an MVP fast enough. On the other hand, you get screamed at for not having a VP that is polished. Frankly, I think things have tilted in the last four years so now a more polished VP is needed than the MVPs you could get away with four years ago, but it is still hard when these other folks are constantly yelling at you about MVPs.

I know the feeling :) I'm just happy to get some feedback. For example, I didn't think of building an export functionality, but I find that now a mandatory feature. I'd find it useful for myself.

I never realized how important the privacy policy and terms of service were, but its a small fix.

You would still have your sent emails, and could simply filter by recipient and date to get them back.

Which raises the question... why would people not simply email a /dev/null email address to achieve precisely the same effect ?

I use the sent emails sent feature if an "oh shit, something went wrong" moment happens as i develop.

Regarding your question: why would people not simply email a /dev/null email address and achieve precisely the same effect?

That is a hacker way to solve the problem. Before receiptapp, I kept track of my own documents via gmail. Setup a filter for myusername+document@gmail.com to tag and auto archive it.

It worked okay but didn't feel quite right.

The end result I'm trying to achieve is: A place as reliable and simple as your shoebox at home.

For some reason, sent email doesn't feel right in that regard.

And..how is this better than a shoe box all things considered?

You don't have to carry it with you. You don't have to worry about fire. The organizational benefits of going digital.

Well you don't go around carrying receipts in my experience except as long as it takes to put them in the box, fire is a legitimate concern I guess, organization benefits are minimal if someone else is doing your books for you. All in all it looks like a solution in search of a problem but I guess time will tell.

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