AKA3 App: No Longer Worth It
Announcing the removal of AKA3 email alias app
January 22, 2025 -- Ron Kreutzer
Today, I am removing the AKA3 app from the Apple and Google stores. Not to worry: the web version is allive and well. Over two years ago, I created native apps for Android and iOS, thinking that the app stores would provide an expanded audience for the email alias service. After much time and effort in creating and retooling the apps to satisfy Apple and Goole’s continual demands for apps to support the latest version of this or that, and the effort required to ensure that all underlying components and frameworks play nicely with each other, the time has come to say that it’s not worth it.
AKA3 was developed as a privacy-respecting email alias service where an individual does not need to give out their real email address when asked for it online or in-person. The person invents alias email addresses as needed, which forward to their real email address. Then, if any alias is used to spam them, they setup a block to no longer receive emails on that alias address. Simple, private and cost-effective.
I created the service as something I needed when I couldn’t find anything that was good enough. I use it everyday, and hope that others find it useful as well.
After spending thousands of dollars on advertising in the app stores to promote the service, and then giving Apple and Google up to 30% of the subscription price as a sales commission, it just didn’t make economic sense to continue the apps.
Smart people will continue to find the service on the web at AKA3.net. I don’t want or need stupid people, like the sub-species that gave the app a 1 star review because it wasn’t free. I don’t need the revenue from this service to fund my lifestyle, and I’m confident that smart people see the value of this service.
So, the apps are gone. The service is still here. And I’m still here, using the service daily.
AKA3 Email Aliases -- AKA3.net
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