Just launched tonight: thisemailwillselfdestruct.com - feedback?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1677926

by dustball • 16 years ago

3 8 16 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

A simple & fun site to send e-mails that self-destruct: http://www.thisemailwillselfdestruct.com/

You can specify how long the message will last after it has been opened. It's an easy way to send a secure message to someone without having to worry about the message getting accidentally saved on their computer, forwarded on, etc.

A free subscription if you want to try it: http://www.thisemailwillselfdestruct.com/signup/free-promo-534b10dd8

Audience is less technical folk; i.e. not familiar with crypto or secure enterprise messaging.

What do you think?

dustball4• 16 years ago

Clickable links:

http://www.thisemailwillselfdestruct.com/

http://www.thisemailwillselfdestruct.com/signup/free-promo-5...

jolan• 16 years ago

I just got an error trying to sign up:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 511, in __call__
        handler.get(*groups)
      File "/base/data/home/apps/thisemailwill/1.344696440624846265/main.py", line 243, in get
        self.redirect(users.create_login_url('/signup'+coupon))
    TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects

dustball4• 16 years ago

Thanks! I just pushed a fix.

dustball4• 16 years ago

Though, from the error, I think you tried to sign up without the coupon - make sure to use http://www.thisemailwillselfdestruct.com/signup/free-promo-5... so you don't have to pay ;)

photon_off2• 16 years ago

This was done before, but I forgot the URL. One thing I never understood is how people don't just figure: Can't the recipient photograph (or otherwise document) the e-mail?

gcheong• 16 years ago

Or a screen capture/print?

dustball4• 16 years ago

Sure, they can. The point is to make it hard, not impossible. Heck, just think of common problems caused by lazyness or human error. The service lets you send a message to someone with a _reasonable expectation_ that it won't go any further. With e-mail or normal written communication methods, you simply don't have that.

photon_off2• 16 years ago

To me, it is not at all a reasonable expectation that somebody can look at an e-mail, but not document it. It seems disingenuous. Perhaps I am more clever than your target audience.

Just launched tonight: thisemailwillselfdestruct.com - feedback?

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