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tempmailboxes — temporary email for developers and agents · Show HN

"Temporary email, with clear boundaries" is a good angle in a crowded market, and the page keeps the promise: it says plainly that free public mailboxes are shared and suitable only for messages you're fine leaving public.
The home page illustration, though, shows a "Your verification code: 482930" email, the exact thing you should not receive in a shared public mailbox. The first image teaches the use case that the text warns against.
On /plans, Plus and Pro have the same tagline ("Keep it private"). The difference (10 vs 50 mailboxes, 1 vs 5 domains, 14 vs 30 days) is in the rows, so the taglines add nothing. Something like "for you" vs "for your projects" would help me choose.
Prices are shown yearly by default ("$6.75 / month, $81 billed yearly"). I had to toggle to learn the real monthly price. For a temporary-email product, people tend to want to try a month first.
First fix: change the hero illustration to an inbox with a newsletter or a signup welcome, and label it "public: anyone with the address can read this". Then show the OTP stream only in the private/developer section where it's safe.

Reviewed 2026-11-04.

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