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Hello everyone co-founder here,

This post was in the top 5 until a few minutes ago and it seems that some people have flagged it. I know it seems very suspicious that the submission could get so many upvotes and very little positive feedback but I'm also puzzled at how that happened in the first place. I understand that a lot of people here think we're breaking mailto links but we're trying to solve a real problem that many people (non-HNers) have. I submitted this because we wanted to get feedback and we did (and we take it all to heart) but I'm shocked that some folks here think there was a voting ring. I think the people voting it up are doing so for either the discussion or to congratulate the fact that we launched. Can someone explain why they flagged it? Thanks!

Hi Michael, I can guarantee you there's no hidden thing going on -- at least as far as we're concerned. We've taken all the feedback even though 90% was negative but I'm sure the people voting it up saw that a lot of people have this problem, maybe even themselves. I don't know how most comments could be negative while it got that many upvotes, but I can only tell we have absolutely nothing to do with it other than posting the Show HN.

Hello CCs, we're definitely going to be this. We didn't think it was a big deal until we saw the feedback here. Thanks for the feedback!

Hi shurcooL, we've thought about this problem and that's why we keep the original messages intact with replies. Users can directly reply to the sender from their email.

Hi StavrosK, I'm one of the developers.

I don't know if this was clear from the homepage but we're targeting site owners. Many sites use mailto links because they don't want to go through the hassle of setting up a contact form. We're just trying to make that easier to do.

Edit: Thanks for the feedback. We can absolutely show the actual email address and even include a real mailto link inside the widget incase the users prefer that. We'll be implementing that right away.