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http://10MinuteMail.com http://10MinuteMail.com was written by me as a learning exercise. It's profitable and low maintenance.

by modoc 16y ago

mdolon 16y ago
Out of curiosity, when did you launch the site? Did you do any marketing or was it natural growth? I ask because the temporary inbox market seems pretty saturated already.
- modoc 16y ago
  I launched it in November of 2006. The temp inbox market had several players in it already, and if I'd actually looked around at all I wouldn't have built it:) But it was just something to learn Seam and scratch my own itch, so I didn't even check to see if there was already a product in the space, much less several. I didn't do any marketing, just mentioned it to a couple of friends. Apparently those friends know some crazy people because in ~24 hours it was on the front page of Digg, Slashdot, and Yahoo Tech. Since that initial spike of traffic, and the settle-out afterward, it's been growing slowly but steadily ever since.
  - HardyLeung 16y ago
    10minutemail.com is cool. Thank you. But recently it has not been working for me. Are websites catching on and blacklisting 10minutemail domains? Anyway to counter that?
    - modoc 16y ago
      By not working you mean sites won't let you register with e-mail addresses ending in lhsdv.com? Or that they do, but there's some issue with 10MinuteMail.com itself that doesn't show you the e-mail? If it's the former, then not much I can do, other than rotating domains every few months, which I do. If it's the latter, email me with an example and I'll try to fix it. devon@digitalsanctuary.com
      - catch23 16y ago
        Maybe you can have people donate their junk domains that they bought out of whim. I'm sure every HN reader probably have a few dozen domains that they let expire every year.
pedromenezes 16y ago
10MinutesMail is a cool app. I use it a lot. Thumbs up. :)
petervandijck 16y ago
How does it make money? With the ads?
- modoc 16y ago
  About 80% from ads.
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http://10MinuteMail.com http://10MinuteMail.com was written by me as a learning exercise. It's profitable and low maintenance.

by modoc 16y ago

http://10MinuteMail.com http://10MinuteMail.com was written by me as a learning exercise. It's profitable and low maintenance.

mdolon 16y ago

Out of curiosity, when did you launch the site? Did you do any marketing or was it natural growth? I ask because the temporary inbox market seems pretty saturated already.

modoc 16y ago
I launched it in November of 2006. The temp inbox market had several players in it already, and if I'd actually looked around at all I wouldn't have built it:) But it was just something to learn Seam and scratch my own itch, so I didn't even check to see if there was already a product in the space, much less several. I didn't do any marketing, just mentioned it to a couple of friends. Apparently those friends know some crazy people because in ~24 hours it was on the front page of Digg, Slashdot, and Yahoo Tech. Since that initial spike of traffic, and the settle-out afterward, it's been growing slowly but steadily ever since.
- HardyLeung 16y ago
  10minutemail.com is cool. Thank you. But recently it has not been working for me. Are websites catching on and blacklisting 10minutemail domains? Anyway to counter that?
  - modoc 16y ago
    By not working you mean sites won't let you register with e-mail addresses ending in lhsdv.com? Or that they do, but there's some issue with 10MinuteMail.com itself that doesn't show you the e-mail? If it's the former, then not much I can do, other than rotating domains every few months, which I do. If it's the latter, email me with an example and I'll try to fix it. devon@digitalsanctuary.com
    - catch23 16y ago
      Maybe you can have people donate their junk domains that they bought out of whim. I'm sure every HN reader probably have a few dozen domains that they let expire every year.

pedromenezes 16y ago

10MinutesMail is a cool app. I use it a lot. Thumbs up. :)

petervandijck 16y ago

How does it make money? With the ads?

modoc 16y ago
About 80% from ads.

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