Kudos! Very nice work! I have been looking for something like this for weeks, but nothing quite hit the nail on the head.
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I almost deferred to the classic jab about their being a member of the "cult of Steve Jobs" but then I read their comment about being an intern at Apple University and realized the author was simply institutionally indoctrinated. Clearly I jest but...
Apple did not invent the smartphone. It didn't invent the music player. It didn't invent the portable tablet. It didn't invent the personal information manager.
This was not a zero to one. To some extent you could say he even reused some of his own playbook from his attempt to make the iMac a cult hit. I do think he introduced the right product at the right time, but I think it was his strategy, or obsession, with perfecting the user experience that was definitely a zero to one.
Will definitely repost on social media!
There's an incredible amount of potential with this! I'm jealous I didn't think of it!
While I'm not one to suggest monetizing something that benefits a community I think you could reasonably monetize this by providing CaaS (ha! Coloring as a Service).
You could have weekly or monthly pdfs of generations emailed for particular themes like kids' school mascots, religious subjects like for Sunday school, curriculum subject correlating theme, etc.
Additionally, I would have it hide a signature somewhere in case someone starts scraping images and commercially selling them, or additionally license them to be able scrape them using Cloudflare.
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I work for an IT MSP and can attest what you're seeing is by design and occurs for a technical reason and is a security feature by Microsoft as a means of an organization controlling who can and cannot register accounts claiming to be from an organization or is not.
This means that someone created a Microsoft organization (business) account and verified the domain tutanota.com. Once this is done no one can register a personal account.
On the technical side, Microsoft has Teams highly integrated with Exchange Online. When there manages to be both a business org and personal accounts with the same domain, Microsoft services get tricky. When you "share a file" with someone it may not make it to your account. Could be because it tried to send it to the business org but it didn't find an account so it just fails and the recipient never gets anything. Causes all sorts of problems across the board and sometimes we have to go finding all the personal accounts using the company domain and change the email associated with the personal account.
When you are troubleshooting this, there's two ways to login to Microsoft really, the business/organization side or the consumer/personal side. Now if you happen to be on both by registering for a personal Microsoft acct prior to the organization verifying its domain, then some parts of Microsoft's sites/services make some assumptions as to which one you probably want. To rule out account confusion, I go to https://myworkaccount.microsoft.com or https://account.microsoft.com and login with the appropriate account.
If Tutanota does not using Microsoft for any sort of organizational management, Microsoft single sign on, Azure services, etc, then just contact their customer service to tell them that the domain was verified but you can't find the account associated. They may ask you to do your own verification by adding a txt record. Once you have control of the verified domain, you can go through a process to completely remove the domain from Microsoft services.
I can personally say I know how sift through probably 5 or 6 different email systems or providers for this kind of data. It may seem "creepy", it did to me at first, but after awhile you realize, in business at least, there's really nothing of interest. Probably only like 99.999% of emails exchanged will have nothing incriminating, embarrassing, or even worth reading. It's kind of like being the key holder for a safe. Someone's gotta be the keyholder and be able to access the data for when necessary. Sometimes there's an inherent level of trust required and usually they just dgaf what's there.
It's kind of like a virtual manifestation of the "IT Closet" that almost all companies have. A bunch of places I've worked there's a office or closet where all the old PCs, laptops, and hard drives get stashed away. All the IT staff get access, and yes the could go rummaging around looking for personal pics, old tax records, etc, most of the time it's just not a valid concern worth anyone's time to steal or protect.
SMH The article, author, editor, and publication lost all credibility on subject with one single clause.
Oh I got it maybe the author prefer an impartial unit that could run the media instead and make sure everything is fair for everyone. Kinda like North Korea! ;-)
Seriously though, the article reads like a bit of frustration and foot stomping.
I like the part about it being irreversible...I recall a humorous back and forth between two politicians where one was arguing that we should outlaw all currencies that can't be logged or tracked and the other politician said "you mean like we do with cash? Oh well lets outlaw cash then!"