Show HN: BAREmail – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi

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2 months ago

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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