About VanishMail
Who runs this, why it exists, and how it stays alive.
VanishMail is a small, free, receive-only disposable email service run by WhitePeak Creative, an independent web studio. It is one of several experimental tools the studio ships to explore the edges of what privacy-respecting web apps can look like in 2026.
Why it exists
Most disposable email services on the public internet in 2026 are either ad-supported, data-broker-supported, or paid. We built VanishMail to be the version we would want to use ourselves: no third-party tracking, no ad slots, no upsell modal the moment you generate an address, no account creation, no "we may keep your data for up to X days" buried in the terms. The whole pitch is the homepage, and the homepage is the whole product.
How it is funded
Honest answer: out of pocket, for now. The service runs on a single small VPS (LiteSpeed + PHP 8.5 + MariaDB) plus the disposable domain vshm.app and its wildcard TLS certificate. At current usage the operational cost is well under what a freelancer lunch costs per week. We have no investors, no advertisers, and no data-sharing partners.
If usage grows, the natural next move is a paid tier with longer-lived inboxes and custom domains. We have not built that yet on purpose: we want to know whether anyone actually uses the free version before designing the upgrade. Subscribe-free channels below if you want a heads-up when that changes.
What we will not do
- Sell or share message contents, sender lists, or address lists.
- Add third-party analytics, session replay, or ad pixels.
- Require an account or a real email to use the service.
- Run an SMTP relay. VanishMail is receive-only by design.
- Operate a public directory of active inboxes.
Get in touch
For abuse reports, see the abuse page. For partnership, security disclosures, sponsorship, or anything else, see the contact page for the right address. We read everything and reply to most of it.
Source and transparency
The service runs on a private Git repository with a published commit history. We do not currently publish the source under an open-source license; we may revisit that if there is interest.