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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] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will this be a paid for service?

We all need to realise, check what you are looking at and their business practice.

If it does what you need and does not exploit you, pay for the service!

Best of luck to you.

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

There is a free tier that gives you 500MB and you can receive unlimited messages. More storage and the ability to send messages are available as paid subscriptions.

I’m working on other features that will be paid as well, like IMAP access and custom domains. (I’m working on a mobile app that will be free, but the IMAP servers will be expensive to run, because they need to support more concurrent connections than the servers needed for the app.)

I can’t compete with Gmail’s 10GB for free, but I can certainly compete on the fact that I don’t track you and don’t trick you into clicking ads!