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I made an alternative to Gmail.
(port87.com)
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what is the business model for this service?
i couldnt find a privacy policy.
Sorting emails like this is really useful.
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:
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:
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.
Thanks for the informative answer.
The business model seems to be subscription based which i like(decently priced imo).
i suggest you looking into supporting external mail clients like k9/fairemail. Emails being encrypted at rest would be big.(People like to keep their stuff private even from the provider). Having a web app is nice tho.
i hope your ventures into this become succesful.
Thank you. :)
Once I have IMAP working, third party clients like those will work. IMAP will also let you export and import emails.
One of my goals is ease of use (particularly to support enterprise users), and storing emails encrypted complicates things. (You need a bridge for IMAP, and you need to index all emails on the client side to support full text search.) I will support S/MIME and OpenPGP over IMAP though, so with the right setup, emails could be end-to-end encrypted.
Why do you think you need a mobile app when there's already a ton of free email clients for mobile?
I’m going to support IMAP too, but IMAP doesn’t fully support the way Port87 works, so the mobile app will probably be the better experience for most people.
Labels in Port87 have the following options:
In the app, I can present these as toggles, but there isn’t a way to do that in IMAP.
IMAP also isn’t aware of an address being mapped to a label, so in the app when you hit reply or compose, it will use the address of the label as the From address. In IMAP/SMTP, you’ll have to adjust that yourself every time.
So basically, I’m going to try to make using a third party app the best experience I can, but there are limitations at the protocol level that will be very difficult to work around.