Ask HN: this social network reaches 2 billion users

7 pointsby aya7214 anni fa9 comments

I work on a system which uses your imap-mailbox as your social-network-server. But it's more than an new mailclient. It displays your mails as a news-stream, organizes images as a photoalbum, sends comments and likes as mails.

Sounds interesting?

6 comments

aya7214 anni fa

The problem with showing this tools is that noone will enter his email-credentials on my site, or would you do that? So the only way is to make the source public so everyone can install it on his own server. It's not like Diaspora where you can create an anonymous account to test the system.

aya7214 anni fa

Take a look: http://www.mad5.de/smail/?fw_goto=smail/screenshots

marssaxman14 anni fa

Sounds interesting indeed. And sensible, and a reasonable future-proof distributed architecture...

petervandijck14 anni fa

Yes it does sound interesting. Screenshots/url?

aya7214 anni fa

Here is a demo-screen. http://www.mad5.de/smail/index.php?fw_goto=smail/screenshots...;

adrianwaj14 anni fa

can you tie in SMS - avoid need to use mobile but still have a number?

aya7214 anni fa

What would you use SMS for? The main problem with SMS is, that someone has to pay for. You thought of using SMS for inbound or outbound?