<story><title>Show HN: TrashEmail – Telegram-based disposable mail service</title><url>https://github.com/r0hi7/Trashemail</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>newscracker</author><text>Feedback for the OP: I didn&amp;#x27;t understand how this works, and am reluctant to start a bot just to figure it out. It would be helpful if you could add some screenshots showing how email address creation, deletion and email receipt work (please do not use GIFs, just a set of static images are enough).&lt;p&gt;Tangentially on Telegram bots, &lt;i&gt;one of the things&lt;/i&gt; I dislike with privacy on Telegram is that the user ID (an internal Telegram generated number, not to be confused with your chosen username) given to bots is static. It&amp;#x27;s not an ID per bot and there&amp;#x27;s no way to change the ID without deleting your Telegram account and creating it again later (I&amp;#x27;m not sure if it changes then either). Bots can also see and save your name (as entered on the profile) on Telegram. This makes it easier for bots (or bot swarms) to track users on Telegram. (AFAIK, Telegram bots don&amp;#x27;t get the phone number of the user; it&amp;#x27;d be terrible if they did).</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: TrashEmail – Telegram-based disposable mail service</title><url>https://github.com/r0hi7/Trashemail</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>miki123211</author><text>Telegram is such an underappreciated platform. It has many features other platforms lack, is reasonably privacy-friendly, more so than fb&amp;#x2F;whatsapp&amp;#x2F;etc, but not enough to sacrifice features or UX. The have an API ind both official and unofficial clients for almost all platforms, including command line and native, non-electron Windows (UWP). The client API is not easy to use, as crypto and similar features are involved, but C libraries exist. On the other hand, the bot API is one of the most pleasant APIs I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen. It just works, can be tested in the browser, there&amp;#x27;s no oAuth crap one needs to set up. It&amp;#x27;s beautifully simple. I use Telegram whenever I can, and it has become my goto Messenger these days.</text></comment>