Show HN: UnInbox – open-source modern email – 1000 gh stars

8 points by McAdam 2 years ago · 4 comments · 2 min read

Last summer I snapped after the chaos in my inbox almost cost me a few thousand dollars.

Email is almost 50 years old and it's barely changed. We have, and the way we communicate has changed dramatically.

The way email is now, doesn't match with the way we work and live. It's like using cave paintings when we have the internet.

So I set out to imagine what email would be like if it was designed today - or - what email should have been.

On Friday we launched on Product Hunt - getting #1 of the day, and just now we reached 1000 stars on github with 1750 users!

UnInbox focuses more on the content of conversations than the noise around them. It's collaborative from the start, letting us bring concepts and ideas we're used to from our normal apps like slack or figma.

We dont follow email standards internally, so the data structure gives lots of flexibility like adding watchers to a conversation, or setting statuses and automations.

Think of it more like a collaborative productivity chat experience that connects to email.

UnInbox fully open source with a cloud version on our site. Its completely standalone so can be used as the only mail system, or can work in "piggy-back" mode along side something like google.

And it's fully self-hostable too - if you like sleepless nights and dealing with email block lists.

You can sign up today, claim a free @uninbox.me email address, and experience it for yourself!

It's early days, theres a lot to build, but we're excited for a better email future.

Would love your feedback!