alt Hacker NewsI love the idea of emailing people with appreciation for things they've created.
I've considered doing this a few times, but have to admit I've never actually got round to sending people appreciative emails, maybe this blog post is the prompt I need.
There's a lot of makers on HN, has anyone here ever received emails about things they made?
I used to be fairly active on r/generative, someone once DM'd me to show me a pen-plot they'd made based off of something I'd made, and it made my whole week.
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I've had a few emails, and a few contacts over Matrix over the years. Barely any though. My email and matrix id are both on my front page at https://www.grepular.com. I recently added a "Like" button at various places throughout the site, front page, end of articles etc, so a click, followed by typing an optional message and another click is all it would take. I've been wondering if people ignore it due to assuming it is somehow connected to social media.
I had one email that I thought was praise, but it was just the poster selling his own tool that did the same thing, but for a monthly fee =)
I've never received an email like that but I send them pretty often, the worst thing that can happen is they don't respond. Go for it!
I've had two or three articles I've written on my blog hit the HN front page, and each time I get one or two emails from some random person about it. It's great. A little connection that some human out there read a thing I wrote and it meant enough to them to write something back to me. I put my email on my stuff because I'm happy for people to use it :)