Group: Thomas & Kat
Confusing Email Generator
Have you ever gotten a spam email that was just so confusing and backwards that it was interesting and hilarious? The objective of this project is to generate and send the most obscure and confusing emails the internet has ever seen. Complete with random quotes, random names, Kanye West quotes, the option to translate the email into non-existent languages, and shitty 2000’s era gifs, it will be a breeze for the user to send strange emails to everyone they know — all completely anonymously. There will also be formatting options where users can make their emails absolutely gorgeous with only the most aesthetic fonts, colors, and text sizes. If possible, an option to send many, many emails at once will also be implemented. Users can use an image url to attach any image to the email. Users can also add their own personal text at the bottom as a clue to the recipient as to who sent them this amazing email. @nyu.edu will never be the same again.
One inspiration for this project is Nigerian Prince email scams. We have received many of these and think they are hilarious.
Another inspiration for this project is a subreddit called /r/Ooer (www.reddit.com/r/Ooer). This subreddit was made by my friend many years ago and I have always loved it. It is a self-branded “experimental tech support forum” which has been the birthplace for many memes, and was an early pioneer of the “Deep-Fried” meme format. The screenshot below doesn’t do it justice — just go to the website.
Production:
There will be no video or audio for this project — it is less about the user experience and more about the product. The main page will feature a variety of options to custom-build the email using the below APIs. This will mainly be a coding project and will hopefully give users the opportunity to send very confusing and interesting emails to their friends, family, and loved ones.
Resources:
| API Title: | URL: | Description: |
| Throwaway Email | https://www.programmableweb.com/api/throwawaymail-getalias | The “Throwaway Mail Get Alias” API is an API which allows a user to send an anonymous email to anyone by giving a fake username which is used as the sender’s email and the the recipient’s email address. This will be the bread and butter of the project as the other APIs will help generate the content of the email. |
| Kanye Quotes | https://www.programmableweb.com/api/kanyerest | The “Kanye.rest” API is an API that pulls random Kanye West quotes from the internet. This will also be an option as opposed to the “Notable and Quotable Random Quote” API. |
| Random Quotes | https://www.programmableweb.com/api/notable-and-quotable-random-quote | The “Notable and Quotable Random Quote” API is an API which pulls famous quotes from a database of over 30,000 Quotes. This will be in the body of the email. |
| Fun Translations | https://funtranslations.com/api | The “Fun Translations” API will be another API which will be implemented in this project. The user will have the option to translate the entire email into many fake languages. |
| Random User | https://randomuser.me/ | The “Random User” API generates random names and identities to determine from who the email will be sent. However, users will also have an option to put their own text. |