Can I reach you over email ?
Mine is in profile ! I want to share something not ready for primetime.
I sent an email - excited to see what you've got.
Readit Newsmikesabat commented on Show HN: Scream to Unlock – Blocks social media until you scream “I'm a loser” · Posted by u/madinmo
mikesabat commented on Show HN: Scream to Unlock – Blocks social media until you scream “I'm a loser” · Posted by u/madinmo
If you want to make a kids app... Forcing the child to do a number of math problems to continue using the tablet would be an amazing app that I would definitely pay for.
My daughter is a second grader. If every 5 minutes of tablet use 'cost' her 5 correct arithmetic answers she would be working at space x right now.
mikesabat commented on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application ikuyo.kenrick95.org/... · Posted by u/kenrick95
My current 'favorite idea I probably won't build' is an sms chat bot that does exactly this for guys in their 30s & 40s. The hard part is actually organizing the group of friends to pick a weekend and location. So a bot that can help with all of that first, is really compelling for me.
OP, let me know if you want to do a user group trying to help us organize a trip.
mikesabat commented on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot support.mozilla.org/en-US... · Posted by u/phantomathkg
Apologies if I'm missing a joke, but Pocket used to be called "ReadItLater". Instapaper still exists and I imagine they're about to get an influx of Pocket refugees.
Not a great joke. Instapaper was really the first one that was read it later. I thought they just it down, but I just switched to Android and Instapaper is (maybe was) only iPhone.
Del.icio.us was just bookmarks, no reader for the phone.
I built a side project during COVID and after. I started recording videos explaining everything that's happening in the world for my kids to watch in 20 years.
Then I wanted to capture my parents life story. I thought it might be a good little project and others might find it valuable. So I built viography.co
The problem is that I'm not really promoting it and not getting customers. So I'm spending a few hundred dollars a month to record videos, save them for later and of course fix bugs that I find.
mikesabat commented on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot support.mozilla.org/en-US... · Posted by u/phantomathkg
I was a user for so long that I was on it before it even rebranded as Pocket. I finally gave up on it last year, mostly due to frustration with the terrible 2023 redesign of the mobile app. When Mozilla made the unfathomable decision to become an internet advertising company, I figured it was just a matter of time before they had to put Pocket out to pasture. A product that's designed to strip ads from content for readability doesn't align with their new direction.
I'd probably be applauding the decision to shut this down if I thought they were doing it to free up resources to increase their focus on the browser, but Mozilla seems to be institutionally committed to chasing its own demise, so I'm sure they will instead focus on AI integration and other stuff that nobody asked for.
Meanwhile, Firefox is still missing proper support for a bunch of modern web features like view transitions and CSS anchor points that are available in every other browser.
I was a user for so long I used to call this app instapaper.
Is this kind of like AI audience capture?
mikesabat commented on AT&T Email-to-Text Gateway Service Ending June 17 att.com/support/article/w... · Posted by u/m463
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I think a penny is about the right price. What are the other options and how are those working?
50 percent of email is spam and Gmail has had to create multiple invoices to segment the emails that are probably not going to be read.
Snail mail is probably $1 to send something that will likely be thrown out.
Phone calls - we're rounding the corner after the days of auto insurance calls. But the behavior of only answering known callers might be here to stay.
Sms is the best channel at enforcing opt-in and if it's not worth $0.01 to reach me with the message, sms probably isn't the right channel
mikesabat commented on AT&T Email-to-Text Gateway Service Ending June 17 att.com/support/article/w... · Posted by u/m463
Where do you get the data about spam texts being internal to MNOs these days? I keep track of the ones I receive and they're almost all going through third party companies that are themselves sending through Twilio, Bandwidth, Sinch, etc. This makes perfect sense to me given what I know of the market and how spammers operate.
How do you track and save these numbers? Manually or programmatically?
mikesabat commented on AT&T Email-to-Text Gateway Service Ending June 17 att.com/support/article/w... · Posted by u/m463
Another one bites the dust.
MMS and email use the same protocol with minor differences under the hood.
Since the FCC abdicated their regulatory power over texting during the first Trump administration under Ajit Pai, T-Mobile, AT&T & Verizon Wireless formed a cartel called The Campaign Registry which has run amok extorting data and cash out of businesses just to be allowed to go through a slow approval process.
Nominally, this was to reduce spam texts, but the vast majority of spam texts are internal to the Mobile Network Operators these days.
I think it's a little overstated to call tcr a cartel. Yes, it's a process, but it's gotten a lot better over the last 18 months.
People have been complaining about spam text for a long time. There aren't too many folks out there clamouring for anyone to be able to send them an SMS via email gateway.
For the past decade I've been shocked that email to sms was still allowed. sure, there are some legitimate organizations that have been using this route to avoid cost. But the whole idea is that if it's not worth 1 penny to send this message, then sms probably isn't the right channel.