These terms describe what you can expect when you use tenmin.app and what we expect from you. They're short on purpose: the service itself is small, the relationship between us is brief, and there is no money changing hands in either direction. If something here is unclear, please raise it on the contact page.
1. What you can use the service for
tenmin.app generates a temporary email address that lives for ten minutes and shows you anything that arrives at it. You're welcome to use the service to:
- Receive one-time codes and confirmation links from websites you sign up for.
- Test your own email-sending systems against a real receiver.
- Avoid handing a newsletter your real address when you only want the lead-magnet PDF.
- Practice anything you'd otherwise practice against a temporary inbox — message rendering, deliverability debugging, regression testing, classroom demonstrations.
2. What you can't use it for
You agree not to use tenmin.app to:
- Receive material that is unlawful where you are, where we operate, or where the sender is.
- Receive content depicting the sexual abuse of minors, threats of violence against specific persons, or contraband intended for resale.
- Bypass anti-fraud controls in financial, identity-verification, government, or regulated services. Examples include opening multiple accounts at a site that allows one per person, evading bans, or registering for a service whose terms prohibit temporary email addresses.
- Receive password resets or recovery codes for accounts that don't belong to you.
- Probe, scan, or attack the tenmin.app infrastructure, attempt to enumerate active inboxes, or otherwise interfere with the service's normal operation.
- Resell, rebrand, or otherwise commercialise the service without our written agreement. You're free to link to us and you're free to build your own thing inspired by ours; neither requires permission. Mirroring the service under a different brand does.
We may block specific inbox IDs, recipient patterns, or originating senders that violate the above. We may also, in unusual circumstances, take the service offline temporarily for safety reasons.
3. The service is receive-only
You cannot send mail from a @tenmin.app address. There is no outbound SMTP, no reply button, and no API to push mail through the domain. If you need an address that can send and receive, set up your own mail account with a provider that supports outbound — tenmin.app is not the right tool for that job and we'd rather you know up front.
4. No warranty
We provide tenmin.app on a best-effort basis and offer it "as is", without any express or implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. The service depends on Cloudflare's free-tier infrastructure and on the cooperation of the wider email ecosystem — Gmail and Outlook may decide at any time to mark our domain as suspicious, in which case mail you expect to receive will not arrive. Don't rely on tenmin.app for anything where missed delivery would be a serious problem.
Specifically, we do not promise that:
- The service will be available at any particular time.
- Any given message will arrive, be parsed correctly, or be displayed in time.
- Addresses we generate are unique forever — over enough time, the same six-character ID may be reissued to a different visitor.
- The display window will always be exactly ten minutes — we reserve the right to tune the TTL for operational reasons.
5. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of tenmin.app, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, or goodwill — including but not limited to damages resulting from a missed delivery, a misrouted message, an account you couldn't open because the verification email didn't arrive, or a coupon you couldn't claim because the sender's email landed after the timer expired. Our total aggregate liability to you for any claim arising out of or relating to these terms is capped at zero, since you are paying us nothing.
6. Tips
The "Tip" button points at our Buy Me a Coffee page. Tips are voluntary, non-refundable, and confer no special access, ad-free experience, or premium feature — there is no premium tier to confer. They're a way to contribute toward the domain renewal and the time spent maintaining the service, nothing more.
7. Intellectual property
The tenmin.app name, logo, and overall design are ours. The underlying code is small and owes obvious debt to dozens of open-source libraries (React, Vite, Tailwind, postal-mime, Hono, lucide); their respective licences apply to those pieces. You may not represent tenmin.app as your own service or product.
8. Changes
We may update these terms occasionally. Material changes — anything that meaningfully narrows what you can do with the service — will be flagged on the home screen and noted in the "Last updated" line at the top of this page. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept the new version.
9. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the maintainer is ordinarily resident. Any dispute we can't resolve informally will be brought in the courts of that jurisdiction. If you are using tenmin.app from somewhere else, you are responsible for ensuring that your use complies with your local law.
10. Contact
Questions about these terms, including specific use cases you're unsure about, go through the contact page.