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bdav24··on Show HN: I made an app to live longer (free, open source, no tracking)
Thanks!
bdav24··on Show HN: I made an app to live longer (free, open source, no tracking)
Hi, the only timer is for the breathing exercice, you select the number of cycles you want and start.

For the other habits you define your own goals and mark them as complete or not at the end of the day.

bdav24··on A Node.js opensource lib to send transactional notifications, what next?
Hi, I developed this SDK to help save time when integrating transactional notifications. I'm looking for other ideas to work on as opensource projects.

What else do you think would be useful for your projects?

- Perfect deliverability?

- Cost reduction?

- Template definition?

- Devtools?

- Other?

bdav24··on Show HN: A Node.js open source library to send transactional notifications
Very nice, queue integration examples are one of my next steps. I didn't include the queue inside the lib to give the choice to users, but I intended to write a few ones. Would you want code one? About the consumer, it's running on the same instance than the producer for more simplicity (but you can always run instances that only do consumer job).
bdav24··on Show HN: A Node.js open source library to send transactional notifications
Which looks like http://fontawesome.io/icon/paper-plane/ I don't think our logo harms them in any way.
bdav24··on Show HN: A Node.js open source library to send transactional notifications
Yes thanks, using something like node-cron can resolve your problem.
bdav24··on Show HN: A Node.js open source library to send transactional notifications
Thanks for the feedback. I added the word "transactional" to say that we can't send batches with the lib. Anyway it's not a hard limitation because you can always make a loop.
bdav24··on Show HN: A Node.js open source library to send transactional notifications
Hi hitgeek, thanks for your comment. The backstory is quite simple, the initial plan was to make a saas api service, but we don't like cold calling so much, so it ended up as an open source project :)
bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
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.

bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Hi tenryuu, you're right extensions can be ported more easily than before, thanks for your contribution!

The Firefox extension was following the validation process, it's now published: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nbox/

bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
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.

bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Hi kchr, no you're not the only one to use the plus sign. As already discussed in this feed, the + part can easily be removed by spammers.
bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Exactly! And it brings a lot of benefits.
bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Hi ponytech, that's something we're thinking of proposing, but it probably won't come in a very near future.
bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Hi markwakeford, that's something we're currently working on. All devices that access the account will have to be validated on the previous device(s) and will be displayed.

That said, for targetted attacks we won't be able to do better than Google and others, the risk is never 0.

> You will be able to route/read all of an individuals inbound mail ?

You mean to handle the load? We can scale at any time if we need to, but our current setup can already handle a lot.

bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Hi imhoguy, spammers also happen to buy leaked data sometimes to better target people. Anyway, spam is one thing we address, but that's not the main point. It's more about control of your privacy.
bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Hi synicalx, I used that method for many years too, but with time the emails end up piling up. That's manageable of course, but it feels nice to control exactly who owns your information.
bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Hi hota_mazi, I won't say that we can think up of everything but we have these two points in mind.
bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Hi midnitewarrior, here is a post where I try to answer that (valid) concern: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/nbox/comments/483328
bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Hi JadeBN, you're right spamgourmet is very similar to nBox. Here are a few differences:

- With spamgourmet the addresses are designed to expire after X emails, so it's intended for services you don't care about. - Once I know one spamgourmet address, I can try to guess other addresses of yours. - We don't ask for your personal email. If spamgourmet gets hacked, spammers will get your information.

bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Hi irrational, that's fixed now, thanks. We're not native English speaker, so mistakes can slip through.
bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Yes, that gives you some privacy of course, but I still think it's a different use-case: with disposable email services, you're usually not notified when you receive an email, and checking all the addresses must be a pain. I'd use them for services I really don't care about and nBox for wanted and semi-wanted emails.
bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Hi nkkollaw, we're very careful to limit possible downtime, and there is a system of retry for incoming emails, so we should not lose some.

We're currently working on the "account creation" part of nBox.

bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Hi mccolin, thanks for the support! :)
bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Hi StavrosK, yes 33mail (and others) propose almost the same service. Two slight differences though:

- email are less guessable with nBox

- if 33mail gets hacked, spammers will get your email address

bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Ok, I'm glad it works. Thanks for the feedback, we'll try to add that somewhere.
bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Hi heliodor, thanks for the support! :)
bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Hi Sohcahtoa82, selling might not happen that often (fortunately), but data leaks happen very often (see http://breachlevelindex.com/ for example)
bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Hi monista, nBox is heavily based on Chrome at the moment, but a Firefox extension is coming and mobile apps may follow.
bdav24··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Hi ajnin, thanks for your feedback.

> Extensions are a privacy concern and consume memory needlessly.

Yes, that's why we don't ask for any permission, so the extension only gets activated when you click on the button.

> I'm not going to give any personal info to a website I don't trust with my email in the first place

Everyone can get hacked, governments, big companies... so who do you trust enough to give your email?

> I also don't understand how this is not going to be blacklisted like any other anti-spam email service.

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

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