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Show HN: Minerva – Better Email. Offshore Mailpile and secure managed server

23 点作者 sushimako超过 11 年前

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oskarth超过 11 年前
I clicked through all the way, the last step being pretty much: &quot;get a server now&quot;.<p>I was met with this:<p><i>Got it. What happens next? We currently develop and test the Minerva Fabric with a very limited set of friends &amp; specialists.<p>Once we feel confident in the current iteration, we&#x27;ll make new servers available on a rolling basis. Rest assured that you&#x27;ll be among the first who can reclaim their privacy.</i><p>MVP and all, I get that. But why are you submitting it to HN when there&#x27;s nothing there?<p>It&#x27;s not done. This is just an email form to collect interest. This dilutes the value of &quot;Show HN&quot; posts.
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bobwaycott超过 11 年前
It says it&#x27;s built on Mailpile[1,2], but Mailpile says on it&#x27;s own github project page that it is &quot;still experimental and isn&#x27;t very useful yet.&quot;[3]<p>Slightly confused how this can then be something to charge for at this time if it&#x27;s UI is built atop something that is self-professed experimental and not useful.<p>But pricing is there, and there&#x27;s nothing in the language to indicate I can&#x27;t jump on this ship right now, including a <i>Download for free</i> option.<p>Click <i>Configure $39</i> button. Okay, asking for email address &amp; where I&#x27;d like to have Minerva setup. Hong Kong sounds fun. And I want to use my own domain. But wait. <i>Request server</i>? Odd word choice for proceeding with configuration.<p>Let&#x27;s backup a step and click download instead. Wanna check out the code and whatnot so I can see what all is going on that I&#x27;d have to support if I do it myself--and I sometimes like doing it myself for certain things. Trusting a third-party for email security &amp; privacy has, let&#x27;s say, taken a big hit recently.<p>Click <i>Download for free</i> and ... there&#x27;s no actual download. It&#x27;s an email signup form to request a server. Odd wording for a free download, isn&#x27;t it? <i>Request a server</i>? I can&#x27;t really request a server to download. I&#x27;m supposed to be doing setup myself, so I need software, right?<p>Decided to drop an email address in anyway to &#x27;request a server&#x27; for the configure-your-own option, and it appears it&#x27;s an invite list--with no prior copy indicating it was an invite-only thing.<p>Not exactly a good approach here, Minerva.<p>[1]: <a href="http://cl.ly/image/030u0i200a1N" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cl.ly&#x2F;image&#x2F;030u0i200a1N</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://mailpile.is" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mailpile.is</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile#welcome-to-mailpile" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pagekite&#x2F;Mailpile#welcome-to-mailpile</a>
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gilrain超过 11 年前
A one-sentence pitch isn&#x27;t enough to get me to click a button which looks and feels like taking an action. I&#x27;d rather see at least a short paragraph go into a bit more detail, first.<p>As it is, the homepage is basically a splash screen. That might even be okay, but making the only interaction a button that implies it takes an action makes me feel like I need to make a yes&#x2F;no decision on your product before I even have a good feeling for what it is.
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x0x0超过 11 年前
Unless I misread entirely, your price is $39&#x2F;mo. That&#x27;s just not happening for personal email. I value my time, but I already have a vps and you&#x27;re charging $500&#x2F;year. And I&#x27;m even willing to pay for email; I already pay $2.50&#x2F;mo via tuffmail.
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jameshart超过 11 年前
Why is there a large Philips logo on the metal block on the splash page?