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

submitted 1 year ago by hperrin@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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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 yourname-netflix@port87.com, 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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[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why should I use this over email aliasing services like addy.io or simplelogin?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Mostly because mine is automatic. You don’t have to set anything up in advance. I was at the gym the other day, and I just put in hperrin-planetfitness@port87.com, and later when I checked my phone, the “planetfitness” label was there in my pending labels. I’m pretty sure they’re going to send me ads, so I’m just going to block the label once I’m sure I’m not going back.

But also I think it’s a really good email system, but I’m biased, because I made it. :)