Fun idea and nice design. How does it work?
Hey, well you just write down something, and select when you would want that sent back to you. That's the gist of it anyways!
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walrussama commented on Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules resurf.me... · Posted by u/walrussama
Ah also note that the one thing that would put me off from using this service is actually trusting that you'll (you as in Resurf) still be around 10 years from now to deliver the email.
Yeah great point...
It's kind of a catch-22, in that resurf has to be around for a long time, for people to think it will be around for a longer time still, haha.
Right now though, I set the maximum date in the future as one year from now, so should be able to guarantee that at least.
walrussama commented on Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules resurf.me... · Posted by u/walrussama
Gmail has this feature built in, you can plan the sending of an email for a later point in time.
Yeah good point.
I guess with Gmail you will see your scheduled emails (and ruin any surprises), whereas in Resurf it's deliberately hidden from you.
walrussama commented on Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules resurf.me... · Posted by u/walrussama
You might like Diarium, a local-first journaling app that will bring up past entries a year later. Since journalling is private, not everyone is comfortable sharing with an email provider.
Good point on the privacy. I did think long and hard about this... and ultimately it's kind of hard to do privacy well with email.
In-app push notifications are better in this regard, but I figured it's a lot harder to find users to try my app, and also, emails are very accessible.
Diarium seems like a great app!
walrussama commented on Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules resurf.me... · Posted by u/walrussama
This reminded me of a more whimsical old service that used real snails to send email at some indeterminate time. Looks like their home page is still up but it's totally defunct: http://www.realsnailmail.net/ The only message I sent with it (or at least that made it through, maybe I sent more that I don't remember) was initiated in June 2008, at last collected by a snail in May 2011, and the snail Marko delivered it in August 2011.
Wow that's such a delightful service, haha.
walrussama commented on Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules resurf.me... · Posted by u/walrussama
This is very cool and makes me smile because I used to use a simplified version of this as a take home project in engineering interviews.
One usecase I find particularly interesting is predictions. People often predict the future like “in 2 years we will have AGI” etc. It would be fun to fact check these predictions on the exact date 2 years later. Pick top tech leaders or politicians and scrape all their predictions and make a leaderboard of who got it right or messed up. could be fun to try.
Oh that's a great use case! Never thought of that. Thanks!