Do you want to amend or respond to this comment in light of rrhoover's reply to you?
http://www.producthunt.com/posts/instant-chemistry
http://www.producthunt.com/posts/jumpido
http://www.producthunt.com/posts/customeed
Maybe if they made it something you could subscribe to, opt-in, I would think it wasn't spam, but as it stands now, getting a notification on all of my Twitter enabled devices about something I don't care about, that I didn't ask for nor subscribe to, is spam. That some are advocating actually "scraping emails" to automate email notifications because this is so useful just leaves me a little bit dumbfounded.
It seems to me that companies might even actually pay for a service like this and if enough people thought it added value, I don't see where the issue with scraping emails is. Perhaps you could enlighten me or provide a different viewpoint as this would be something that I'd have no issue implementing myself and the fact that it scares you so much has me worried that I would be overreaching if I ever did. I just don't see why an email scraper is seen as inherently evil?
[0] I imagine a system where there has to be a minimum amount of comments and not one in which the only comment is made by Erik (or a bot) and used as the "motivation" for responding to the thread as a founder.
I find it totally bizarre that you would claim "you don't care about" this. As in, I do care about it.
Am I saying it's okay for someone to start talking about my product, then spam me to let me know this is happening?
Yes.