Why I decided to create private email service?
Darkpost is my attempt to build a private email based on respect for mail, privacy, and old internet values.
Nowdays to start anything feels scary and intimidating. Everything you look on, someone did before you. You plan to make VPN service? There is Nord VPN, Mullvad VPN (BTW great VPN choice also! ♥), and then there are scam VPN providers which fill the space. Emails? Same thing, Google dominates the market, and who would trust small provider to handle such crucial task?
I was intimidated by these prospects also, but then I reminded myself, that unless you are inventor, there is always someone doing same thing! In middle ages, there were carpenters before you were born, smiths, and you still learned craft and opened your workshop. There were painters, there were programmers before. And then it hit me!. It’s about the craft!
I’m not carpenter, I’m not smith, but I can build servers. I love emails, I love Linux and I have very nostalgic feeling towards 90s and early 2000, when internet was more free. When internet companies popped up and vanished.
So this is reason why I made this service. To use and better my craft, offer it to people on the internet and help bring back diversity to the internet. If we all start to offer our craft outside of Information Silos, the better.
What is DARKPOST really and what it aims for?
To not be boring.
Heh, you expected more?
Fine I will elaborate! Those who worked in Corporate, probably know how bland it is. Most corporation resemble torture by White Room. It’s so bland and boring that employees get depressions, feel burnout and excitement deprivation. Creating own business is so boring idea, that it puts many into sleep, just hearing about it. And don’t make me start on bureaucracy! ☠
Also many startup project, try to be more, then they truly are. Darkpost aims to be small family business providing VPN and private email service. That’s it. Small, cozy internet post office, nothing more, nothing less. Small company, which takes pride in it’s craft, has touch with own users and tries to escape typical corporate tropes.
So? Not be boring, small and cozy, be here for users and rebel against current state of the internet!
I write this as it comes to my mind. To all marketing, sales slop lovers, I’m not sorry.