Re:Show HN: Publishthis.email – Create a web page in seconds...
by wingerlang on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @07:01AM
(#13819663)
How are you dealing with email? I recently started looking at this and it was a bit more annoying than I hoped for. Currently it seems like I am settling down with Python + imaplib/email modules and a lot of stack overflow Q/A's.
Re:Show HN: Publishthis.email – Create a web page in seconds...
by mattway on Monday March 06, 2017 @11:03PM
(#13808180)
Another creator here. We have no specific use cases, but the ideas floating around my head: 1) Leaking controversial conversations, whistleblowing, or simply sharing interesting emails. 2) Being one of the fastest ways to publish, could be a new blogging platform, especially for the older generation who is more comfortable with email. 3) Transparency for businesses/government through public archiving.
Re:Show HN: Publishthis.email – Create a web page in seconds...
by nickdrewe on Monday March 06, 2017 @10:55PM
(#13808143)
Thanks. The idea was simply - what if you could publish a page by sending an email, but several use cases have come to mind since:
- The quickest way to create a simple web page.
- Blogging without having to create an account.
- Organisational email transparency - either within organisations, or publicly.
- Archiving email threads.
- Sharing long threads of correspondence without adding to the thread further.
Re:Show HN: Publishthis.email – Create a web page in seconds...
by jtraffic on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @08:18AM
(#13810048)
Very cool. I like the idea enough that I want to find a reason to use it, but none comes to mind immediately. The real problem, it seems, is not being able to get something on the web, but getting anyone to look at it.
Reminds of https://github.com/fiatjaf/questo.email
I would love to hear other ideas.
Hmmm if this is a goal you should support encryption.
Perhaps provide a public key and have an auto decryption mechanism with your private key.
- The quickest way to create a simple web page. - Blogging without having to create an account. - Organisational email transparency - either within organisations, or publicly. - Archiving email threads. - Sharing long threads of correspondence without adding to the thread further.