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I tried this (as a Canadian): 1. It asks you to optionally sign up for a bunch of other services like Spokeo 2. It asks for access to your email via
by pards 5mo ago
I tried this (as a Canadian):
1. It asks you to optionally sign up for a bunch of other services like Spokeo
2. It asks for access to your email via Apple's Mail app which I don't use
3. I got a lot of 404s anyway
4. Many sites require manual intervention to work
Nice idea, but it needs a LOT of TLC to make it generally useful. I suspect that having a non-numeric "zip" code and a non-US address might be breaking a lot of the automation.
- xnickb 5mo agoSo you're saying the phrase "vibe-coded" should've been used somewhere in the title? :-)
- nixass 5mo ago> 2. It asks for access to your email via Apple's Mail app which I don't use Assumption that people use Apple services by default is wild
- oofbey 5mo agoThey probably built it just for themselves. More the first person in the post title.
- dfxm12 5mo agoThey probably wouldn't have shared the GitHub repository with hn if this was the case.
- michaelcampbell 5mo agoThere are "show hn" submissions for things that people just want to show off multiple times a week.
- dfxm12 5mo agoThis was not tagged as a show hn ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- amarcheschi 5mo agoGiven oop info I can found online, they built it to advertise themselves, I think show hn would have been much more appropriate Mac in requirements is wild tho
- Forgeties79 5mo agoIf it was windows or Linux only I feel like no one would bat an eye. Plenty of software is OS dependent. Am I missing something? I do think they should’ve put that in the title, however. Save a lot of people time
- amarcheschi 5mo agoI agree with you for the no one would bat an eye had it been windows or linux I do find the project cool, just a bit too sensationalized given the title
- NoNotTheDuo 5mo agoMail isn't documented as a requirement, but the first item in the Requirements section is "macOS (uses launchd for scheduling and Messages for iMessage)".
- jonhohle 5mo agoIs Messages to automate responding to broker texts or just for notification?
- tedd4u 5mo agoThe mail app is a native Mac app but it can use any email account. It's an SMTP/IMAP/POP client.
- dreamcompiler 5mo agoTrue. But Apple also enshittified the UI and they had an unforgivable data loss issue with Mail back in the Catalina days, which is why I switched to Thunderbird and haven't looked back.
- pulse-dev 5mo ago[dead]