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mlisowsk commented on Ask HN: Why aren't we fighting email spam more effectively?    · Posted by u/outcoldman
mlisowsk · 10 months ago
I think spam is just a nuisance, not a big problem. What is a big problem when hosting providers or your email server are blocking or marking as spam legitimate business communication.

It has happened several times to me that I have not seen a customer's email because it was marked as spam and likewise customers have not seen my email as it was sorted in their spam folder. This is a breakdown of communication that is far worse than spam.

A classic use case that is more likely to be flagged as spam is when a customer submits a request via a web form or on social media and you try to follow up by email. From the receiving email server point of view this is a cold email and in danger of being flagged as spam.

mlisowsk commented on When banks call to verify your details how do you know the call is legitimate?    · Posted by u/blurr
mlisowsk · 10 months ago
My bank is sending letters and messages telling us they will never call to "verify details" and any such call is a phishing attempt.
mlisowsk commented on Show HN: No more subscriptions. Find software you can buy once and own forever   buyoncesoftware.com... · Posted by u/richbowen
mlisowsk · 10 months ago
Then make it a one-time purchase valid for 3 or 5 years and after that customers need to pay again. Kind of in the middle between strict one-time only and classic SaaS that auto-renews.

Or: before SaaS we used to have the model of one-time purchase + annual maintenance fee (which was a small percentage of purchase, like 5-10%). The benefits of the "maintenance fee" to be defined by you. But it used to include updates of software and in enterprise context often support.

mlisowsk commented on Show HN: Hyper Workspace – A no-code framework for JSON   hyper-workspace.onrender.... · Posted by u/fdb75017
mlisowsk · 10 months ago
If I understand this correctly, you are proposing to deconstruct (a priori unstructured) documents into structured data, no?

I think you need to have a demo use case in your app so people can better understand what this is about.

I tried to make an invoice document type. So far I got simple header data and line items and I created a method to add up line items to a total. It would be nice if methods could be triggered to run automatically. I can place buttons to run methods, but can I run a method at document update or field update?

Also I to speed up creation of methods you should have simple aggregation function like summing all items of a list (given a field name to sum over).

u/mlisowsk

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