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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m really hoping my email service gains more traction. People are so accustomed to crappy email providers that the current providers don’t really innovate anymore. I think it will actually have a chance of catching on, because it’s such a different way of doing email.

Check it out: https://port87.com

[–] emmanuel_car@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Great concept, how do you fund it? I imagine running an email service isn’t cheap.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Right now I’m self funding it. I’m building out the enterprise features, like custom domains and domain user management, so I can start marketing to businesses. I’d like to be able to fund it to profitability without any outside investors.

It’s actually surprisingly affordable to run an email service. Right now my biggest expense is the MySQL server. With one server node plus one backup node I should be able to handle several hundred active users.