Create private emails like you create passwords

by Bojan

Hi IH,

I'm looking for feedback on a tool I'm building. Any feedback, positive or negative, is welcome. https://hidemail.cc

TLDR (my elevator pitch):

Companies are legally required to email you policy updates even if you've previously unsubscribed. With Hidemail you can generate and delete private emails, significantly reducing spam.

If you're interested, here's the longer pitch:

Personally, I find it infuriatingly annoying how many emails I get. Especially as an early adopter, I like to try out new products but I hate getting marketing emails for life.

Even worse, we've gotten to the point where unsubscribing isn't enough. Companies are required by law to send you policy updates (Privacy, GDPR, etc...). It's genuinely ridiculous.

There's different classes of solutions to this:

Subaddressing: [email protected], but its very simple for adversaries to get around this and leak your main email.

Disposable emails: yopmail or temp-mail, but they're not privacy friendly at all.

Mail-server relay forwarding: Apple iCloud+ and Firefox Relay. HideMail uses ProtonMail's simplelogin API to generate and help you manage email aliases for any account.

Check it out, and again, thank you for your time.