jubari

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by jubari 10y ago
Hey OP, you might want to replace the "stolen" Tim Ferris testimonial for Highrise on the landingpage.
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by jubari 14y ago
Incidentally, that's somewhat what I've been building since my recent submission: Show HN: A personal Gmail. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4804690 ) I learned a lot from HN about trust and got a lot of great feedback via email. Bas
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by jubari 14y ago
Hey thanks. I make extensive use of http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ (a godsend for hackers), though I use it more as a style-guide and rebuild most parts myself. and for icons: http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/ The font i
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by jubari 14y ago
It's an actual app I've been using for a week now. Apart from the local dev database (wouldn't want to show my actual incoming emails), that's how it looks right now in my browser. I chose the NewRelic newsletter because it somewhat fit the
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by jubari 14y ago
I already backup all incoming mail as JSON on my Dropbox and plan to do the same periodically as MBOX. I'm not entirely sure what to do with the JSON, though. It's a "leftover" from my first prototype, where I stored ALL DATA on Dropbox.
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by jubari 14y ago
Thanks for the kind words. Actually: Most of the points you raise have been solved. MailGun has (as far as i can tell after a week of usage) a great spam filter and supports IMAP. To be honest: I wouldn't even consider building the email in
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by jubari 14y ago
Absolutely. I'm quite happy with how it looks (thanks btw), but such a mission critical app requires a well though-out backend. I'm not even sure that hosting the data myself (on heroku postgresql) is even a viable option.
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by jubari 14y ago
As a quick intermission: This is a GREAT discussion regarding the state of webmail. Although my app clearly isn't "there yet" (regarding going public), I'm having a great time reading your comments.
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by jubari 14y ago
Fair enough :)
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by jubari 14y ago
Done. I've only been lurking & upvoting until now, so thanks for the heads up.
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by jubari 14y ago
I'm with you. I have had a few questions/issues during development and the live-support was simply brilliant. Meanwhile I switched 2 of my Rails apps from Sendgrid to MailGun.
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by jubari 14y ago
I like your idea as it would eliminate a few of my "bottlenecks". I will check out if a chrome plugin might just do that, OR even see how http://www.streak.com/ accomplished their goals. Haven't looked into that, yet.
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by jubari 14y ago
This is actually my biggest concern, so no offense taken: Despite Google's privacy policy and ad behaviour (yadda yadda), they ARE still a trustworthy company, regarding uptime , backups and everything technical. Though I remember them losi
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by jubari 14y ago
Haha, thanks for your frank words. I actually like your idea for 2 reasons: 1) OpenSource would definitely improve the quality of the app while still maintaining a way to profit from my work. 2) Finally giving back to OpenSource. Always fel
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by jubari 14y ago
Spot on. The app currently is quite egocentric, how I would like to read/organize my mails. If there is a small niche, who'd like to work the same way AND pay for it, I'd seriously consider making a business out of it. The great thing is, t
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by jubari 14y ago
I pointed out further down, that my initial prototype ran completely on Dropbox. Right now, I backup all incoming mail instantly to Dropbox in JSON format for backup purposes. I might want to look into a "on top of X"-solution. Thanks.
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by jubari 14y ago
Right, I totally understand that the people who leave Gmail for privacy concerns, most likely would host their own mail.
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by jubari 14y ago
1) Considering the hosting: It's currently basically a SaaS. I initially had a prototype, which used Dropbox-as-a-Database. Basically I stored all emails and metadata (labels, etc) in a private dropbox in JSON-format. It actually worked, bu
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Show HN: A personal Gmail
127 points by jubari 14y ago|103 comments