So I just wanted to take a moment and say nice work I have a solution that works for me at the moment, although I should check if it's e2ee, but this is a great example of a simple SaaS that could really catch on and meet the niche needs of users. I like the design, I like the implementation, and I really like the price. Everyone and their 3rd cousin charges $5/month for for simple functions which I usually just pass on but yours is a great price point for the job.
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.
Oh! Another idea, have the uploading themes be a paid feature. I would consider site licensing for orgs. So if a school system wants to make it available to all teachers, they can pay a flat fee.
There's an incredible amount of potential with this! I'm jealous I didn't think of it!
Great suggestions! I love the B2B angle - weekly themed PDFs for schools/organizations is something I hadn't fully considered.
For now keeping it free to build user base, but definitely thinking about premium tiers for:
- Custom theme uploads
- Organization licensing
- Curriculum-specific content
The Cloudflare crawl protection is a good call too. Already using R2, so makes sense to add that layer.
Thanks for the thoughtful ideas - this is exactly why I posted here!
I posted this on their reddit shortly ago. It's not only sensationalized, I'm gonna guess the knew part of this prior to writing the article. It's easy enough to resolve, you re-verify the domain (assuming they don't know which account was used originally) then you decomission the domain from Microsoft services. Frees it up to be used again bc it's no longer considered a managed organization's domain.
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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.
Most email providers have some sort of ability to seeing raw data. That's the problem with email protocols, not the company. When necessary it's largely used for legal purposes (i.e. think subpoenas or court evidence in general), virus tracking (finding who got the first one or first to open "that email"), technical issues, etc.
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.
Yes I have too but it was a while back. I had an unlisted video with no views in like 2 years suddenly get flagged. My kids were dancing to the music during the credits at the end of a movie. You couldn't even see the tv screen.
I wanted this to be somehow related to meth making them awesome at math so I could be justified in my jealousy of the asian kids from a grade below me when I was in the advanced math which was one grade above me.
Yeah I agree, the title alone reads to me like my toddler tattling on his brother.
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.
Will definitely repost on social media!