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Show HN: MailRubber, a condom for your email address
- McAndze 13y agoCreative condoms! Cool concept, clean creation.
- sourceless 13y agoThanks!
- Tinned_Tuna 13y agoAnd here I was thinking I'd be able to order condoms via email! Neat app.
- sourceless 13y agoWhy stop at email? `$ send_condoms --amount 2 --size normal`
- polymatter 13y agoI guess the next evolutionary step is to 3D print them on demand? (quick, someone get me a patent application form)
- mccolin 13y agoPretty cool idea. Was hoping it would instead spit out an obfuscated or dummy email address I could use on forms and signups which would proxy (perhaps for a limited time only) to my real email address.
- sourceless 13y agoOoh, that's something to consider... thanks!
- c0ur7n3y 13y agoI've been using spamgourmet.com for years. It's saved me 100,000's of spam emails.
- Nikolas0 13y agoInteresting idea. Maybe you should also add some API too or even plugins for popular blogging and forum software.
- sourceless 13y agoThat's next on my list - starting with a JSON api, maybe I'll make a gem.
- Shank 13y agoI use http://scr.im/ http://scr.im/ for this, and quite unlike something that advertises itself as a "condom for your email address," it has cute ladybugs instead.
- sourceless 13y agoCool, the angle I'm planning to go for is the one Nikolas0 mentioned - an API and plugins so that it can be integrated into things like blogs and forums easily.
- jessriedel 13y agoIf you're looking for wide appeal, the name seems unnecessarily risqué.
- sourceless 13y agoPerhaps, I guess I'll find out
- shloime 13y agoI think the name's great. I'll definitely remember it, and it's not obviously risque.
- chickopozo 13y agoThis has existed for years: http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/ http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/ And your email isn't stored but rather encrypted and the ciphertext passed via the url.
- chickopozo 13y agohttp://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01eHy-6e8CKpz-dprrM0go1A==&c=A5nBvNUIQ98c8aWv4LVeGE_VTvjfNB2LcE9-QFepE8w= http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01eHy-6e8CKpz-d... k is your id and c is the ciphertext the key is stored on their server.
- orasis 13y agoAwesome unique value proposition. Well done! :-)
- artursapek 13y ago"Removes the need for munging" with a more complicated process. I've never found a "munged" email address hard to read. Also, how do they have to prove they're human? That would be good to see on the splash page.
- sourceless 13y agoNoted, thanks
- rogerbinns 13y agoAre spam filters really that bad? I've had my email address in plain sight for well over a decade - no munging or similar tricks, even using a mailto url - and my domain is a catchall. Spamassassin plus RBL works just fine for me. My personal gmail is around 8 years old IIRC and similarly I really don't see any spam or false positives there either. What are the people who are so concerned about this problem doing that results in them getting spam that isn't caught by filtering systems?