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What it does

BAREMAIL — email's bare necessities. A minimalist, open-source Gmail client built for spotty connections. Airplane wifi. Rural networks. Developing regions. Anywhere Gmail's multi-megabyte interface refuses to load — BAREMAIL gets your email through in kilobytes. Get BAREMAIL on GitHub: https://github.com/matt-virgo/baremail

BAREMAIL — email

Airplane wifi. Rural networks. Developing regions. Anywhere Gmail's multi-megabyte interface refuses to load — BAREMAIL gets your email through in kilobytes. View on GitHub Get started in ~3 minutes Buy the bear a coffee ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ ☕ | |/ | | thx for the coffee! /| |\ If BAREMAIL saved you from staring at a loading spinner on airplane wifi, consider supporting thefrom baremail.app

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  I've been frustrated one too many times by terrible airplane wifi and not being able to load Gmail or Superhuman when all I want to do is get a few simple text-only emails out the door. These clients have become pretty bloated with the assumption you've always got great bandwidth. So I vibe coded BAREMAIL. It's open source, has no backend, and you can just set it up for yourself. Takes ~3 mins to setup API access via Google Cloud Platform (thanks for making this not super easy Google!) I tried to maintain nice design and some important keyboard shortcuts without getting to overBEARing.

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