Well, yes me. I was on the same path. Researching hardware and coming to the same conclusion. I found tinfoil.sh which looks promising?

My current solution is a private ChatGPT-like interface using OpenRouter’s API with Zero Data Retention enabled. Not perfect or verifiable but I think it’s acceptable for now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996555

https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/features/zdr

This is similar to Singapore’s https://go.gov.sg links.

Functions exactly like tinyurl, generally used by public officers for the various programmes/initiatives from the ministries and agencies.

it would be nice if they added a link preview

not sure why they have never done that before

What's a "link preview"?

I think it means you can see the full URL before you click on it, so you can decide if it's a phishing scam. But why would Zohran send you to a phishing scam. If you think Zohran would phish you then don't enter his links at all.

And who is "they" in this case?

I started with one long context but added multiple comments to fine tune it till I’m fully satisfied.

May I know which claw are you using and why?

> A temporary e-mail address provider with deterministic addresses for attribution.

How does this work?

In this case, it's based on a per-user secret key and AES-256, which with some careful key and IV-derivation, allows you to have a deterministic (and reversible) address for any given domain name. The basic principle (applied to ids, which extends to domain names) is in this blog post: https://apeleg.com/blog/posts/2023/03/30/enumeration-timing-...

If you're willing / able to sacrifice reversibility, a more orthodox approach can be hash (or *MAC) based. For example, SHA-256(secret + domain-name). However, a key point of this project is attribution, to avoid the need of storing a large set of pre-generated addresses, for portability and for easy reverse aliases.

In terms of the actual SMTP bits, I'm currently relying on Cloudflare workers for receiving and delivering (just a nice and gratis API); however, extensibility within reason is a goal (in scope: provider-agnostic API; very probably not in scope: an SMTP client / server).

I’ve been running CheapestEmailHosting.com - email hosting for custom domains without enterprise pricing.

SMTP/IMAP/POP3, webmail (Roundcube), CalDAV/CardDAV, unlimited mailboxes, catch-all. Starting at $5/year for 2GB.

No marketing spend, and I terminate spammers immediately. If you run a legitimate domain, you subsidize yourself.

This isn’t for bulk senders or SLAs. It’s for developers and side-project founders who can configure their own clients and don’t want to pay $60-120/year.

https://www.cheapestemailhosting.com

Working on a low cost email service. Ditched Gmail for my custom domains to avoid lock-in risks, and I believe devs really need stupid-cheap ($10/yr 5GB, unlimited mailboxes/domains/aliases/SMTP/IMAP/webmail) high-quality hosting that nails deliverability with zero spam tolerance. Bootstrapped this instead of pricier options like FastMail. Thoughts?

https://www.lowcostmail.com

You may want to check out https://purelymail.com who are pretty close to your target pricing. I've been using them since forever and have no reasons to switch but it is always great to see more players in the niche!

I have thought about something like this, but what is the plan when law enforcement comes knocking and

- asks you to hand over all information about certain customers.

- accuses you of aiding the illegal activities happening through your service (copyright violations, CP, etc).

Handle it like any other email service does?

Interesting!

Just curious, if this is a completely greenfield project, why IMAP instead of JMAP?

This is coming from someone who works with IMAP on a daily basis and has rightfully grown a disdain for it.

I love the bare-bones landing page, many products have landed me as a customer due to that.

Do you have IMAP import? And CardDAV/CalDAV? Edit: also wildcards?

Thanks for your interest. IMAPsync migrations are supported. No CardDAV/CalDAV. For wildcards, do you mean catch all? If so, that is supported as well.

"www.lowcostmail.com took too long to respond. ERR_TIMED_OUT"

Very cool project. I've wanted something like this for ages but never had the patience to glue it all together. Do you plan to support group chats too? That was a huge headache in my case. Excited to see how this evolves, even if setup's a bit fiddly.

This looks promising, especially for folks who can't tolerate CPAP. Wonder how it performs long-term and if it messes with REM cycles. Also curious about cost and insurance coverage—sleep treatments tend to get expensie fast. Hope follow-up studies confirm these results without major side effects.

Neat idea. I’ve definitely been burned by silent timeouts in production before. Curious how this handles more complex cases like nested async calls or third-party dependencies that don't expose good hooks. Would be cool if this could somehow integrate with logging tools directly for more visbility.