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Dev tools · August 24, 2011

Messagify - a private Disqus for web apps. Feedback?

Hey HN, I'm a longtime reader and this is my first Show HN (exciting!) It's a collaboration between me and two friends, and we're building this upon another app we made called EmailYak, an API to receive email. We're trying something new and releasing the documentation to an app while we're still building it. We'd love feedback. Do you belong to any of these categories? 1) You've built an app with two distinct groups of users (say, people with cars and those looking for a ride) and they were able to communicate with each other. Did you expose personal email addresses? Did you send…

Messagify - a private Disqus for web apps. Feedback? launched on August 24, 2011 with 26 votes, #46 of 248 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

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In plain words

Messagify is a private messaging system designed for web applications that need to facilitate communication between two distinct user groups without exposing personal email addresses. Built on the EmailYak email API, it allows users to message each other directly within an app while keeping identities private. The tool is intended for developers building two-sided platforms, marketplaces, or collaborative applications where secure user-to-user communication is essential but direct email sharing is undesirable.

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In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN, I'm a longtime reader and this is my first Show HN (exciting!) It's a collaboration between me and two friends, and we're building this upon another app we made called EmailYak, an API to receive email. We're trying something new and releasing the documentation to an app while we're still building it. We'd…

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