Re:Ask HN: How to come up with monetizable side project ideas?
by Insanity on Saturday September 22, 2018 @06:52PM
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Maybe because it makes their accounts easier to find when people google their email address?
You never know what someone might do with that information I guess :)
Edit: To expand on my reasoning, don’t make it hard for people to contact you. There’s no reason to be afraid of spurious email contacts. They’re easy to mark as spam and ignore future contacts.
When have you seen people obfuscate their public social media contact addresses? I haven’t seen anyone hide their Twitter, FB public pages, or LinkedIn addresses. Email shouldn’t be any different for general contact purposes.
Now the one exception I have is work email addresses. I don’t publicize those.
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