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Down To Fax is Chatroulette for fax machines
- jaxn 15y agoIt is not even Sunday in Australia yet. I am going to stay off the Internet all weekend now.
- davvid 15y agoI was thinking the same thing. At risk of spoiling it for others -- is it april fools yet?
- mappu 15y agoYou might want to link to the non-HTTPS version, or fix the certificate. Very cool and funny, though.
- lolcraft 15y agoSorry, but no. This is OKCupid, or whatever, for fax machines. Which is weird, you know. Taking the "corporateness" and Extreme Seriousness connotations of fax, and the sexy fun vibe for dating, and mixing them... Sort of funny, if you asked me. I guess I'm not that eager on dating women who use faxes, in 2012, for dating. Total turn-off. Now, first thing I thought was, this could be some app in which the user writes something, or draws something, scans it and it goes to a random's user printer. That's cool like ChatRoulette. It has all its penis-in-your-face potential, and all its ephimerous-beauty potential at the same time. I was dissapointed :( Oh, and the SSL certificate is wrong. It's associated to a *.herokuapp.com . Please fix it.
- AznHisoka 15y agoNot sure if I would want penis in my face potential...
- stdbrouw 15y agoLet it percolate in your mind for another half a minute. Everything will become obvious.
- twfarland 15y agoI'm utterly convinced that some people are missing the part of their brain that detects satire.
- DanBC 15y agoWell, yes. A lot of those people are going to be on HN as well. There are people who take things very literally. (To the point that analogy and metaphor become confusing.) BTW: I love down to fax.
- jes5199 15y agoit's like tacocopter for dating!
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- ImprovedSilence 15y agoI think this site is just a tongue-in-cheek humor kinda site. They mention you can send stuff over email, then scold you for not having a fax machine. I thought it was rather humorous. The creators know they're being goofs.
- marquis 15y agoOh, what a pity we had our landline phones disconnected earlier this century.
- tedivm 15y agoYou're going to feel so weird saying that in 50 years.
- slewis 15y agoPsh, if anyone gets contacted via DTF you should submit the post to https://www.faxins.com https://www.faxins.com, so the entire internet can laugh at your technologically impaired suitor!
- simonbrown 15y agoWorking link: http://www.faxins.com/ http://www.faxins.com/
- lhnn 15y agoWhat a frightenly unambitious idea.
- jaybill 15y agoThey now quote you saying that on the front page, btw. Linking to this comment.
- christiangenco 15y agoI love these people so much...
- roneil 15y agoChrome wouldn't let me get through to your site through your link because of certificate issues but it works fine over an insecure connection; for the lazy here's the non-HTTPS link: http://www.downtofax.com/ http://www.downtofax.com/ Definitely an interesting/hilarious idea (and I love your testimonials section), but I have to ask, has anyone actually given you a fax number yet? I don't think I know a single person that still owns a fax machine
- damncabbage 15y agoQ) How will you make money? A) Volume. Funny people. (The random profiles are hilarious too: http://www.downtofax.com/random http://www.downtofax.com/random)
- ultrasaurus 15y agoBrilliant! I'm rolling out PagerDuty as we speak.
- simonbrown 15y agoWhat are you using to send the faxes?
- zyad 15y agoCreating fake profiles of customers using picture of dead people is not funny at all. http://www.downtofax.com/users/8c51050c7abd11e1b11512313d186462 http://www.downtofax.com/users/8c51050c7abd11e1b11512313d186... http://www.elizabethstricklandunterzuber.com/ http://www.elizabethstricklandunterzuber.com/ She passed away in 2006.
- stayfaxy 15y agoThanks for the heads up. This account has been deleted. Unfortunately some people aren't taking this as seriously as we hoped. There are over 20mm Americans (mostly in rural areas) who have access to a fax machine but don't have the internet. We have a feature to flag inappropriate profiles.
- zyad 15y agoThank you for your quick reaction. Good luck.
- jaredsohn 15y ago>Unfortunately some people aren't taking this as seriously as we hoped. There are over 20mm Americans (mostly in rural areas) who have access to a fax machine but don't have the internet. The problem with your implementation is that you require your users have the Internet to create a profile and to receive a fax. Ideally you would have a phone number (different ones for men seeking women, women seeking men, men seeking men, women seeking women) that someone could send a fax to and receive back a random fax.
- mcmire 15y agoI'm definitely investing in this once it IPO's. (P.S. Try downtofax.com, neither https://www https://www. nor http://www http://www. work.)
- stfu 15y agoGreat, great, great idea. So simple, so beautiful, so non-IPO. Wish I would see more of that pure idealism around here.
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- gibybo 15y agohttp://www.downtofax.com http://www.downtofax.com gives me a domain placeholder for some hosting company. https://www.downtofax.com https://www.downtofax.com gives me a certificate error. Best I can tell the DNS hasn't propogated everywhere yet. There is a CNAME record for http://dtf.herokuapp.com http://dtf.herokuapp.com though, and that URL seems to show the correct site for me.
- readme 15y agoWould be even funner if it was "You DTMF?"
- msellout 15y agoMy favorite profile is the grue.