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by ltiger 3mo ago
Thanks so much! Definitely a trial by fire, but I'm glad I put it out here. 'Preciate the kind words.
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by ltiger 3mo ago
Nah, but thanks. I actually spent a lot of time checking out Takeout, shell scripts, and existing options before writing a single line of code for the app. Non-technical users don't want to deal with mbox files no matter how many scrip
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by ltiger 3mo ago
Clever. But Gmail and Google Drive share the exact same 15 gb storage quota. If a user has 10 gigs of photos in their Gmail and runs this script, it'll create another 10 gb of files in their Drive. Instead of saving space, this script
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by ltiger 3mo ago
Just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to everyone who commented today. Launching on HN isn't for the faint of heart, but it’s been really valuable. What a day. I was told my landing page looks like an AI wrote it, got roasted f
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by ltiger 3mo ago
You're half right. The HTML and CSS are from a standard template that I imagine exists in just about every LLM's dataset, since they've scraped an internet's worth of them. I wrote (and rewrote and rewrote...) and edited
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by ltiger 3mo ago
Just pushed an update to the site around this. Changing the text to "Downloaded" still might confuse someone, so I removed that line from the illustration altogether.
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by ltiger 3mo ago
Nah, don't do that. Totally fair, though. In my defense, 98% of my time went into wrestling with IMAP parsing architectures, optimizing memory, and code-signing certificates instead of designing custom CSS layouts from scratch. I'
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by ltiger 3mo ago
Thanks, that means a lot. I rebuilt the app because I was feeling that same fatigue. It felt like every cool new tool I looked at wanted to upload personal data to a remote server, hook it up to a third-party AI API, or charge a recurring f
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by ltiger 3mo ago
No, I'm not afraid of pushback at all. I'm actually really glad I used IMAP. Building on top of it let me solve a few major protocol headaches directly in the client: The app filters out signature junk (like tiny social media and
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by ltiger 3mo ago
Thanks!
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by ltiger 3mo ago
Thanks! Yes, use Google Takeout if you want a full account archive. It's a pain if you just want to get your photos, though. You have to deal with huge .mbox files, download gigabytes of unnecessary text, and sometimes you have to wait
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by ltiger 3mo ago
It actually does use IMAP! The app connects directly to Google's IMAP servers via SSL straight from your machine. I intentionally chose a local IMAP pipeline over the official Gmail API because of platform gatekeeping. To use the API f
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by ltiger 3mo ago
Takeout is great for a total archive backup, but using it just to extract photos is where the UX breaks down for most people. When you export Mail with Takeout, Google dumps your entire history into a huge .mbox file. If you have a 20-year-
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by ltiger 3mo ago
Thanks for the feedback! You're right, if you know how to write a script or prompt Claude, you can absolutely spin up a quick tool to scrape attachments in a few minutes. That said, the $29 price point is for the execution and friction
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Show HN: Mail Memories – A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail(mailmemories.com)
103 points by ltiger 3mo ago|58 comments
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by ltiger 3mo ago
TL;DR: Mail Memories is a local-first desktop app (Mac/Windows) that extracts forgotten photos from your Gmail history. 100% local processing, zero cloud servers, no subscriptions, and absolutely no AI. Hey HN, I’m the creator of Mail
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Show HN: I rebuilt my SaaS as a local desktop app to extract photos from Gmail(mailmemories.com)
1 points by ltiger 3mo ago|1 comments
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by ltiger 1y ago
[Reviews current note...] Oh, I do both! - Prepend todos to the top, append notes at the bottom.
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by ltiger 1y ago
Same, except I append to the bottom of an Apple note. (I append, the author's really prepending. Anyway...) When the note gets too long, I cut and paste it to what I call the big note: a 127000-line, 4.9 MB text file I've been mai
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Ask HN: Has any software ever supplanted the leader because it was "beautiful"?
1 points by ltiger 2y ago|4 comments
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Show HN: Mail Memories – Export all your Gmail images(mailmemories.com)
7 points by ltiger 3y ago|0 comments
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by ltiger 3y ago
Just updated the pricing details - You can get all of year's photos for $5.
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by ltiger 3y ago
I've clarified this on the site now. It’s $5 for each year of images you want to download. For example, you can find and save all your photos from 2004 or 2010 (or any year) for $5.
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Export all images from your Gmail account – Mail Memories(mailmemories.com)
16 points by ltiger 3y ago|6 comments
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by ltiger 3y ago
Thanks! Yahoo’s next after Gmail.
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by ltiger 3y ago
Fastmail’s on my list, but it'll be a while before I get to it since it has fewer users than Gmail and others.
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Show HN: Mail Memories – Export your email photos(mailmemories.com)
6 points by ltiger 3y ago|6 comments
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by ltiger 6y ago
"Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life" by Rory Sutherland Explains why we choose brands over cheaper alternatives, why we're willing to pay a lot more to lock in a deal, wh
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by ltiger 7y ago
'Preciate it!
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by ltiger 7y ago
Thanks!

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