But I am fairly sure we live in the world where when something works on 3% of the visitors and the previous thing works on 2.6%, the company does the new thing. That's nearly 20% growth!
Meanwhile, 97% reject their service.
It’s a major reason why I created https://prose.sh to explore what’s possible. We don’t require an email and only ask for it on https://feeds.sh because it’s an rss-to-email notification service.
Read only websites and write SSH apps are pretty congruent to the HN bubble.
There’s an added benefit that only people that can open a terminal can create an account.
1. They insist on a login for a utility that clearly runs locally on my phone.
2. They require permissions like location or contacts that they clearly don't need.
3. They start sending me upsell notifications once an hour, forever when even once a year is too much. I know I can turn off notifications but it's a PITA to do it manually every time I install a new app.
After all, you’re more engaged then!
The bad news is for some reason email reads and click through just dropped off a cliff, is like the emails no longer arrive or something.
The reason you think I'm not reading my emails is that my email client doesn't autoload images, and I keep it that way because it turns off a malware infection vector, you dim bulbs.
I've noticed over the last couple of years in particular that more and more emails coming in are image based only, with no plain text or even alternate text so that if you won't load images you can't even tell what the email was about. Yeah those I never read.