Ask HN: Side project ideas

I like the poor man's cloud storage if, and only if, it scratches one of your itches.

The email idea is still managing email. There was one of the old online services that had a similar feature. A few years ago I dealt with someone who had it. It required a phone call to get whitelisted. I guess a phone call plus manually adding my email address to the white list seemed like less work to that person. It seemed like an artifact from the Fax machine days when business was not done by email. The market today probably smaller...anyone who needs email has it and is making it work.

These days the common solution to the problems of email is to use something else. Messaging platforms have mostly replaced email among teens and replaced big chunks of email among adults. Nobody emails photos of the grandkids anymore. They go on Facebook/Instagram etc. instead.

Good luck.

Both intriguing concepts. #2 is my interesting IMO as it can possibly be used for signing up for services that one doesn't want to display their primary email address. It also has a 'Snapchat' quality to it where email is a 'one off' and the account can easily be deleted, etc.

Also a way to manage accounts online (testing services, etc). It may be able to better manage issue of spam that many experience as all accounts are linked to one email for many users. Email communication becomes unnecessary for many accounts, plus authenticator apps and twilio make email less important.

Let's connect. I have a side project I'm currently creating. Contact details in my profile :)