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I made an alternative to Gmail. (port87.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, I’m Hunter Perrin, and I made a new email service called Port87.

Gmail was a great email service back in 2006, but now it just sucks. They put ads in your inbox that look like unread emails to trick you into clicking them. To me, that means Gmail is malware.

I’ve been degoogling my life for the past 7 years, and Gmail is the last Google service I depended on. I love ProtonMail and use it too, but I developed a new way to sort email automatically, and wanted to write my own service based on it.

Port87 lets you use a tagged address like [email protected], and that automically creates a “netflix” label and puts all email to that address in it. This helps keep your email organized automatically, and protects against spam and phishing.

The database abstraction library I wrote for Port87 is called Nymph.js, and it’s open source. Also the UI library I wrote is called Svelte Material UI, and it’s open source too.

I hope you all like it, and hopefully it can help migrate away from Gmail.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is awesome! The way this works is what I've been doing for years by manually creating different emails. Mymail.streaming@gmail, myemail.work@gmail, myemail.medical@gmail et cetera .I have literally dozens of Gmail accounts to keep things organized. The idea of people able to transition that to a single address sounds amazing. Can't wait to get approved.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’ve been doing it wrong. Gmail support Plus (+) Addressing in single accounts. There’s literally no need for “dozens” of Gmail accounts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Many services don't accept a + in an email address as a valid address.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Then keep one generic gmail account for spam like that. Most services support plus addressing just fine because it’s part of the W3 mail protocol. You can also use a forwarding service for those emails. There are a ton of free forwarding/relay services.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, like Microsoft. That’s why Port87 supports plus or hyphen. Unfortunately, Gmail can’t support that, since Gmail usernames can have hyphens.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Fastmail offers this as well. I suggest looking into their offerings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Invite sent. :) Let me know if you have any issues signing up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

can I have one too please? Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you were on the waitlist, you should have the invite now. :)