Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice

Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of y... by Abundnce10 on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @05:28PM (#15187265)

I just tried to signup with a Hotmail email address and I got this error message: This email cannot be used to create an account. It might be due to your email domain name.

I realize Hotmail isn't the sexiest email provider these days but it's one of the more commonly used. Do you have a list of email domains you allow?

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Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of y... by sotelo on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @06:12PM (#15187559)

We accept hotmail. It might be because of some special characters. Do you use + ?

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Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of y... by sarreph on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @06:58PM (#15187821)

Even if they did use '+', that should still definitely be allowed. I immediately get turned off when a service actively disallows a '+' because then I start to wonder why they don't want me to be able to filter their messages in my inbox.

It's the only sane and easy (but obviously not bullet-proof) way of catching spammers out.

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Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of y... by Abundnce10 on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @06:41PM (#15187724)

Nope. Just letters and numbers. Same with my password.

I tried with my Gmail address and it worked fine. That address has no numbers in it. I used the same password. If you aren't prohibiting Hotmail addresses then it must be the numbers in the email address that are triggering some validation.

Regardless, I have access now. Looking forward to trying your product!

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Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of y... by bitwize on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @09:15PM (#15188448)

Don't reveal your powerlevel in HN, dude. Now you've not only reduced the search space for your Hotmail password, yoy've clued an attacker in that that's also your Gmail password!

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Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of y... by Abundnce10 on Thursday September 07, 2017 @06:17PM (#15196293)

I use Pass [0] to generate unique/random passwords for each site I sign into, I don't use the same password for all sites. I was just describing what I used for this instance (only characters and numbers), not what I do every time. I appreciate your concern though!

[0] https://www.passwordstore.org/

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