Ask HN: this social network reaches 2 billion users

Posted by aya72 on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @11:48AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I work on a system which uses your imap-mailbox as your social-network-server. But it's more than an new mailclient. It displays your mails as a news-stream, organizes images as a photoalbum, sends comments and likes as mails.

Sounds interesting?

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Re:Ask HN: this social network reaches 2 billion users by aya72 on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @04:25PM (#4512992)

The problem with showing this tools is that noone will enter his email-credentials on my site, or would you do that? So the only way is to make the source public so everyone can install it on his own server. It's not like Diaspora where you can create an anonymous account to test the system.

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Re:Ask HN: this social network reaches 2 billion users by aya72 on Thursday September 13, 2012 @12:58AM (#4514857)

Take a look: http://www.mad5.de/smail/?fw_goto=smail/screenshots

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Re:Ask HN: this social network reaches 2 billion users by marssaxman on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @01:16PM (#4511737)

Sounds interesting indeed. And sensible, and a reasonable future-proof distributed architecture...

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Re:Ask HN: this social network reaches 2 billion users by petervandijck on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @04:45PM (#4513112)

Yes it does sound interesting. Screenshots/url?

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Re:Ask HN: this social network reaches 2 billion users by aya72 on Thursday September 13, 2012 @02:10AM (#4515000)

Here is a demo-screen. http://www.mad5.de/smail/index.php?fw_goto=smail/screenshots...;

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Re:Ask HN: this social network reaches 2 billion users by adrianwaj on Thursday September 13, 2012 @06:46AM (#4515509)

can you tie in SMS - avoid need to use mobile but still have a number?

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Re:Ask HN: this social network reaches 2 billion users by aya72 on Friday September 14, 2012 @05:08AM (#4520838)

What would you use SMS for? The main problem with SMS is, that someone has to pay for. You thought of using SMS for inbound or outbound?

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Re:Ask HN: this social network reaches 2 billion users by factorialboy on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @11:50AM (#4511210)

Yes, URL?

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Re:Ask HN: this social network reaches 2 billion users by aya72 on Thursday September 13, 2012 @02:10AM (#4514999)

http://www.mad5.de/smail/?fw_goto=smail/about

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