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

submitted 2 years 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] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

what is the business model for this service?

i couldnt find a privacy policy.

Sorting emails like this is really useful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Here’s the privacy policy:

https://port87.com/privacy-policy

You get 500MB free storage, and you can receive unlimited email. Here’s the breakdown of subscriptions:

$0.99/month to send unlimited messages.
$1.99/month for 2GB
$5.99/month for 10GB
$9.99/month for 20GB
$19.99/month for 100GB
$39.99/month for 1TB

I’m working on a mobile app that will be free. For now, the web app is a progressive web app, so you can install that to your home screen and it works like a mobile app.

I’m also working on other features that aren’t ready yet, but they’ll be premium features:

IMAP, SMTP, and CardDAV support.
Custom domain support.
Additional users for your custom domain.

So basically the business model is pretty similar to other email services. One difference is that I charge for sending mail, and basically that’s to prevent spam. Spammers are unlikely to use a real payment account, because it will get shut down when they’re caught spamming.