Tell HN: Mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles to send spam
A user reported that Mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles to send unsolicited marketing emails. The user attempted to unsubscribe but received a bounced email, leading to concerns about the company's practices. This incident has prompted discussions about the ethics of sharing email addresses publicly.
- ▪Mindie.dev is accused of scraping emails from profiles for spam purposes.
- ▪The user attempted to unsubscribe but received a bounced email.
- ▪The incident has raised concerns about the ethics of sharing email addresses publicly.
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Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165211 |
| Publication time | Sun, 17 May 2026 01:06:37 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-17T01:40:19.096Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-17T01:40:19.096Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | rbQG2wxBy_9r |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Got the following from [email protected] Stackghost —Saw your HN comment about freelance time tracking / invoicing. TimeChat is a Telegram bot: type "1.5 acme bug fix" after work, end of month it auto-generates the PDF invoice for your client. Side-by-side vs Toggl: mindie.dev/vs/toggl.For HN readers I'm running EARLY10: $1/mo (was $7). One-click checkout: timechat pro 2-mo trialIf it's useful, I'd love your feedback. Free tier covers solo testing if you want to start there: https://timechat.mindie.devNot relevant? Reply STOP and I'll never email again.— the Mindie team mindie.dev----I went back through my comment history and I don't believe that I have ever mentioned freelancing, time tracking, or invoicing in a comment except once when I mentioned an invoice peripherally a year…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.