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Re:Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in... by drinkcocacola on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @04:57AM (#25440772)
I usually use mailinator.com for this purpose. In the past I found other similar services through Google search, but certainly didn't find yours. Probably working on your website SEO will increase your organic sign-ups. One thing I love about Mailinator is that all inboxes are public, this completely removes the overhead of creating a new email even in a disposable email service like yours. So probably something you may check for your product. Congrats for the achievement!
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Re:Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in... by kubanczyk on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:39AM (#25441059)
Mailinator addresses (including its random domains) are somehow banned on ~90% of sites that I've recently tried it on.

Other, smaller anonymous mailboxes tend to work though. So it's a rare market that shows the opposite of "too big to fail".

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Re:Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in... by bdhnddnjd on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:38AM (#25441048)
I appreciate mailinator, but mailinator’s domains are blocked in a lot of sites online; I know from experience some of their paid business is from companies using it for internal testing, which is far from great, and won’t sustain long-term, most likely.

Hats off to 33mail, though! Try not to get blacklisted.

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Re:Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in... by daniellarusso on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @06:42AM (#25441472)
I don’t see how 33mail would get blacklisted.

Mailinator allows sending emails, but this is to only receive emails.

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Re:Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in... by dingidong on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:03AM (#25443346)
The reason Mailinator is blacklisted in many sign up processes is because websites want to have users real email addresses, not disposable ones they don't care about.
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