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10MinuteMail - http://10minutemail.com http://10minutemail.com Temporary email. Got lucky with traffic, and run two Google Adsense ads.

by modoc 12y ago

_kyran 12y ago
Thanks for making that! Out of interest, are you willing to share a rough idea of how many emails have been created or how many are made a day?
- modoc 12y ago
  40k-50k addresses are created, with about 80-85% of them receiving an email. I also get about 300k-500k email a day to expired addresses
  - _xander 12y ago
    Big fan of 10minutemail - great job! How are you able to keep track of the emails going to expired addresses? Aren't those addresses destroyed? Do you ever repurpose expired addresses?
  - ethbro 12y ago
    > I also get about 300k-500k email a day to expired addresses Ever had any ideas for monetizing the junk mail you receive? I'd imagine most of the mail filters do something similar to learn on, but it seems like there has to be some value from that volume.
  - ethbro 12y ago
    > I also get about 300k-500k email a day to expired addresses Ever had any ideas for monetizing the junk mail you receive? I'd imagine most of the mail filters do something similar to learn on, but it seems like there has to be some value from that volume.
  - ethbro 12y ago
    > I also get about 300k-500k email a day to expired addresses Ever had any ideas for monetizing the junk mail you receive? I'd imagine most of the mail filters do something similar to learn on, but it seems like there has to be some value from that volume.
GordonS 12y ago
How much traffic do you get to make $1k+ a month with Adsense ads?
- modoc 12y ago
  I get 3.7-4 million page views per month from 850k-1 million unique users.
  - GordonS 12y ago
    OK, that is a lot! What sort of hardware do you need for that kind of load?
    - zrail 12y ago
      That's approximately 2 hits per second. If you're serving static content (or heavily cached) you could handle that with a Raspberry PI. Heck you could probably do it with an arduino. Edit: this depends heavily on your traffic pattern, of course. Super bursty traffic from Reddit, TechCrunch, etc is going to swamp your IO, but CPU will never dominate the equation.
      - toomuchtodo 12y ago
        Might as well serve it from Amazon S3 with Cloudflare in front of it.
        mattmanser 12y ago
        Of all the things that would be suited to Amazon S3 with Cloudflare, a simple mail client/server that saves email securely for 10 minutes is not one. At all.
      - dpcan 12y ago
        Depends on your users I think. If 50% of that traffic is during a 10 hour window of time each day, that could be around 70 views per second. And pulling email for an account could be more costly than a static page view. Then if he's getting that many views, he could be processing tens or hundreds of emails a day per account more or less.... Could get expensive.
tsiki 12y ago
I'm a big fan of 10MinuteMail, it's saved from a lot of spam. Thanks!
wertop 12y ago
How did you get approved for AdSense? I'm trying to get approval for a small app with little textual content, but it seems Google want reams of text so it gets rejected.
- modoc 12y ago
  I didn't have to do anything special (that I remember - this was many years ago).
dragthor 12y ago
Nice idea. Thanks for sharing!
misiti3780 12y ago
big fan also - how are you dynamically creating those address on the backend ?
ing33k 12y ago
I use this almost daily ( for testing my web app ), thanks for creating this site !
not_kurt_godel 12y ago
HTTPS link for those who care about security: https://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html https://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html (Which should be everyone; I find it disappointing you would have posted the HTTP link at all, to be honest.)
vlucas 12y ago
Awesome. I used to run a similar service, but almost got banned from AdSense by users who received emails with adult content. What do you do to account for content in emails that users receive that may be objectionable to your advertisers?
simi_ 12y ago
I use your service religiously. Hi! PS: I will disable uBlock on your domain. I like people who advertise properly.
richardbrevig 12y ago
May seem like a basic question, but I'm curious what different use cases your users us your service for. The obvious to me would be to sign up for a service that requires an email and use the fake one. What else is it used for? Thanks.
avinassh 12y ago
Curious, how did you market it?
guestman987 12y ago
how did you create the website and everything?

10MinuteMail - http://10minutemail.com http://10minutemail.com Temporary email. Got lucky with traffic, and run two Google Adsense ads.

by modoc 12y ago

10MinuteMail - http://10minutemail.com http://10minutemail.com Temporary email. Got lucky with traffic, and run two Google Adsense ads.

_kyran 12y ago

Thanks for making that! Out of interest, are you willing to share a rough idea of how many emails have been created or how many are made a day?

modoc 12y ago
40k-50k addresses are created, with about 80-85% of them receiving an email. I also get about 300k-500k email a day to expired addresses
- _xander 12y ago
  Big fan of 10minutemail - great job! How are you able to keep track of the emails going to expired addresses? Aren't those addresses destroyed? Do you ever repurpose expired addresses?
- ethbro 12y ago
  > I also get about 300k-500k email a day to expired addresses Ever had any ideas for monetizing the junk mail you receive? I'd imagine most of the mail filters do something similar to learn on, but it seems like there has to be some value from that volume.
- ethbro 12y ago
  > I also get about 300k-500k email a day to expired addresses Ever had any ideas for monetizing the junk mail you receive? I'd imagine most of the mail filters do something similar to learn on, but it seems like there has to be some value from that volume.
- ethbro 12y ago
  > I also get about 300k-500k email a day to expired addresses Ever had any ideas for monetizing the junk mail you receive? I'd imagine most of the mail filters do something similar to learn on, but it seems like there has to be some value from that volume.

GordonS 12y ago

How much traffic do you get to make $1k+ a month with Adsense ads?

modoc 12y ago
I get 3.7-4 million page views per month from 850k-1 million unique users.
- GordonS 12y ago
  OK, that is a lot! What sort of hardware do you need for that kind of load?
  - zrail 12y ago
    That's approximately 2 hits per second. If you're serving static content (or heavily cached) you could handle that with a Raspberry PI. Heck you could probably do it with an arduino. Edit: this depends heavily on your traffic pattern, of course. Super bursty traffic from Reddit, TechCrunch, etc is going to swamp your IO, but CPU will never dominate the equation.
    - toomuchtodo 12y ago
      Might as well serve it from Amazon S3 with Cloudflare in front of it.
      - mattmanser 12y ago
        Of all the things that would be suited to Amazon S3 with Cloudflare, a simple mail client/server that saves email securely for 10 minutes is not one. At all.
    - dpcan 12y ago
      Depends on your users I think. If 50% of that traffic is during a 10 hour window of time each day, that could be around 70 views per second. And pulling email for an account could be more costly than a static page view. Then if he's getting that many views, he could be processing tens or hundreds of emails a day per account more or less.... Could get expensive.

tsiki 12y ago

I'm a big fan of 10MinuteMail, it's saved from a lot of spam. Thanks!

wertop 12y ago

How did you get approved for AdSense? I'm trying to get approval for a small app with little textual content, but it seems Google want reams of text so it gets rejected.

modoc 12y ago
I didn't have to do anything special (that I remember - this was many years ago).

dragthor 12y ago

Nice idea. Thanks for sharing!

misiti3780 12y ago

big fan also - how are you dynamically creating those address on the backend ?

ing33k 12y ago

I use this almost daily ( for testing my web app ), thanks for creating this site !

not_kurt_godel 12y ago

HTTPS link for those who care about security: https://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html https://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html (Which should be everyone; I find it disappointing you would have posted the HTTP link at all, to be honest.)

vlucas 12y ago

Awesome. I used to run a similar service, but almost got banned from AdSense by users who received emails with adult content. What do you do to account for content in emails that users receive that may be objectionable to your advertisers?

simi_ 12y ago

I use your service religiously. Hi! PS: I will disable uBlock on your domain. I like people who advertise properly.

richardbrevig 12y ago

May seem like a basic question, but I'm curious what different use cases your users us your service for. The obvious to me would be to sign up for a service that requires an email and use the fake one. What else is it used for? Thanks.

avinassh 12y ago

Curious, how did you market it?

guestman987 12y ago

how did you create the website and everything?