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Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules

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44 points walrussama | 2 comments | 08 Dec 25 11:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

I had an issue where I would journal stuff, and then never look at what I wrote. So I thought it'll be cool to schedule something that will get sent to you at a later time (like a time capsule). Also, was inspired by futureme, where you can send yourself letters that'll arrive in the future.
1. emrekzd ◴[08 Dec 25 12:12 UTC] No.46191350[source]▶
This is very cool and makes me smile because I used to use a simplified version of this as a take home project in engineering interviews.

One usecase I find particularly interesting is predictions. People often predict the future like “in 2 years we will have AGI” etc. It would be fun to fact check these predictions on the exact date 2 years later. Pick top tech leaders or politicians and scrape all their predictions and make a leaderboard of who got it right or messed up. could be fun to try.

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2. walrussama ◴[08 Dec 25 13:17 UTC] No.46191861[source]▶
Oh that's a great use case! Never thought of that. Thanks!