I'm Dante, maker of Hi.new For a long time, I've always been annoyed at the spam emails I keep getting; it can get really ridiculous. "How How, Why, why, Omg, WT..., 🤦🏽". That's usually my expression with spam emails. Have you ever wondered why some emails end up in your spam folder when they should be in your inbox, while others make it to your inbox but should be in spam? I've felt there should be a solution that bridges this gap, providing a more efficient way to manage your emails. It's not about getting another email address for me personally because it will circle back to the same issues. It's a missing layer on top of your email address. So, over the weekend, we built a simple attempt to address this problem and help you prevent spam while still staying reachable. With over 500 users on the first day alone this has become one of my favorite tools to us.

Love the domain! Great idea, made mine: hey.new/ben

In the age of AI this is so relevant! But I don't get how people can email a URL 😅 And I don't think people get that either? What am I missing?

Great way to solve a big problem! Good luck! Mine: https://hey.new/ai-

Firstly congratulations on the launch of @hey.new as SPAM is such an underrerated area. I have two queries. Q1. How much chance is there that I get a very important email (first timer) spammed due to this guard ? Q2. Are there customizable filters in this SPAM Gaurd ?

interesting idea, though I couldn't understand much from the website ... the main question is, are you reading/crawling the emails?

Interesting idea! Have you reinvented the contact form as a means to reduce spam, or am I missing something?

Hi, the idea is amazing, congratulations on the launch! I just wanted to clarify how it works. So I need to send this link, as I send my email, right? Also, is it possible to attach files?

Cool tool that https://getinboxzero.com users might enjoy

Congrats on the launch! I'd have used it if the mail address was an actual mail address instead of a URL. Cos most forms have regex to validate email and fail for URLs.

I've heard of Hey.New, not sure where though but a great way of ensuring you get relevant people to access you and not expose your email to spammers, a probtinhave encountered severally. Congratulations 🎉🎉

Yo, I was wondering what are the privacy issues of such application. Does hey.new has access to all the content from emails sent over it? Where are these data saved? Don't want to be the bitchy person, but it does look like a contact form where some of my messages are filtered by some reading agent.

This is great! Spam is something that absolutely needs solving, I really like your approach to this. Excellent work! 👏

Now I can finally stop getting annoying spam emails from when I put my email address on Hacker News threads :) This looks awesome!

Maybe implement a feature to verify the sender's email address? Without such a verification, it could be easy for someone to impersonate others and send deceptive messages. Moreover, the current design might not effectively prevent common issues like Nigerian spam or more advanced BEC emails, which could pose a significant security risk

Congrats on the launch @dantelex and great to see the traction you are getting! I created my account, simple jim was still available too :) Bit lost what to do from there, maybe create on onboarding (e.g. go here to modify your Linkedin, etc.). Looking forward to using it more. Jim

Nice work on this launch. Clarification on how this works: Is the idea that users filter out spam from hey.new, as if it were my new primary inbox?

I like the simplicity of the interface - beautifully done. :) My question is - what about the use cases that sit in between a big email list and a personal email? So if I wanted to email all my investors, for example, would it be a lot more annoying to have a different workflow to email you due to the friction put in place?

I am confused about how this is any different than using a contact form? Like I can just say “email me here: https://mywebsite/contact” instead of “email me here: https://hey.new/yyy”

I like this and am excited to use your service. I am really overloaded with lots of spam emails. I believe there is a way to block specific address as well when I do not want to hear from them.