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Re: Show HN: BAREmail – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi

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pixel_popping wrote: post #36
isaachinman wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, Marco does this (disclaimer, I'm the solo founder): https://marcoapp.io Contacts populate alongside email threads in search results. If you click on a contact, it will take you to a dedicated contact screen with every thread you've ever had with that contact, as well as every attachment they've ever sent you.

Not bad! If I may, the onboarding monthly price is too expensive and I feel you'd have more customers if you show directly a cheap yearly price instead of monthly, my reasoning is that when it comes to emails, people have a bad feeling about anything that doesn't last.

Fair enough, I've recently had similar thoughts about pricing. Will adjust soon. Please (extended to anyone reading this) ping me directly for a few months free.

Re: Show HN: BAREmail – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi

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Post by isaachinman »

mzajc wrote: post #29
isaachinman wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, Marco does this (disclaimer, I'm the solo founder): https://marcoapp.io Contacts populate alongside email threads in search results. If you click on a contact, it will take you to a dedicated contact screen with every thread you've ever had with that contact, as well as every attachment they've ever sent you.

Not sure if that's intentional, but the entire landing page gets replaced with an error if WebGL is not available: > Something went wrong! > Error creating WebGL context.

Not intentional! Thank you for pointing that out. I'll get a fallback in place within the next 24 hours.

Re: Show HN: BAREmail – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi

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Post by boplicity »

isaachinman wrote: post #26
boplicity wrote: post #16

I really want a fast multi-email client that can easily show full contact history in a sidebar. Any options out there? Em Client does this, but it is buggy and/or slow. No such Thunderbird plugins exist, either.

Yes, Marco does this (disclaimer, I'm the solo founder): https://marcoapp.io Contacts populate alongside email threads in search results. If you click on a contact, it will take you to a dedicated contact screen with every thread you've ever had with that contact, as well as every attachment they've ever sent you.

That looks nice! I do have to say, though, that having the contact history automatically visible in a sidebar is incredibly useful. I would consider adding it as an option to your app. Having it available at a glance, versus having to click through to a different page, makes a huge difference. Em Client also lets me hover over a message in this sidebar to pop-up a small version of it, so I can see just what it said. It's very useful when writing someone to be sure what you've recently (or distantly) said to them. Removing steps to getting this information is vital.

Re: Show HN: BAREmail – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi

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Post by isaachinman »

boplicity wrote: post #43
isaachinman wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, Marco does this (disclaimer, I'm the solo founder): https://marcoapp.io Contacts populate alongside email threads in search results. If you click on a contact, it will take you to a dedicated contact screen with every thread you've ever had with that contact, as well as every attachment they've ever sent you.

That looks nice! I do have to say, though, that having the contact history automatically visible in a sidebar is incredibly useful. I would consider adding it as an option to your app. Having it available at a glance, versus having to click through to a different page, makes a huge difference. Em Client also lets me hover over a message in this sidebar to pop-up a small version of it, so I can see just what it said.…

Great feature request. Will put it on the roadmap immediately.

Re: Show HN: BAREmail – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi

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Post by boplicity »

isaachinman wrote: post #44
boplicity wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That looks nice! I do have to say, though, that having the contact history automatically visible in a sidebar is incredibly useful. I would consider adding it as an option to your app. Having it available at a glance, versus having to click through to a different page, makes a huge difference. Em Client also lets me hover over a message in this sidebar to pop-up a small version of it, so I can see just what it said.…

Great feature request. Will put it on the roadmap immediately.

That's great!

Any chance I can pay for a license that includes one year of updates, as opposed to just doing a monthly subscription?

Re: Show HN: BAREmail – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi

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Post by loremm »

Virgo_matt wrote: post #38
loremm wrote: post #35

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also the nice thing about making personal apps is I can make it entirely keyboard shortcut oriented and harcode the vimium like navigation (f, then modals pop up, then click to go to that email). I got the loading down time to feel instant

Exactly! Love it! Is yours on GitHub? Would love to check it out

Not yet I'll post later, need to make sure I didn't hard code anything

I need to talk to claude and read the oauth docs, but when I kept it entirely client side, I had to reauth/re login with gmail every ~ hour. Did you run into that?

I feel like I ran into this in the past and need to have my server renew the token? Or use the service worker? I'll read your code to see how you did it

Re: Show HN: BAREmail – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi

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Post by isaachinman »

boplicity wrote: post #45
isaachinman wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great feature request. Will put it on the roadmap immediately.

That's great! Any chance I can pay for a license that includes one year of updates, as opposed to just doing a monthly subscription?

Yes, we have an annual price of $40.

Re: Show HN: BAREmail – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi

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Post by Virgo_matt »

loremm wrote: post #47
Virgo_matt wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly! Love it! Is yours on GitHub? Would love to check it out

Not yet I'll post later, need to make sure I didn't hard code anything I need to talk to claude and read the oauth docs, but when I kept it entirely client side, I had to reauth/re login with gmail every ~ hour. Did you run into that? I feel like I ran into this in the past and need to have my server renew the token? Or use the service worker? I'll read your code to see how you did it

yea I didn't read it super closely, but I think setting it up as a test user keeps the oauth token for ~7 days. let me know what you find!
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