Manage all your inboxes effortlessly with a single app. Stay on top of your emails, no matter the provider or device.

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Marco's engineering team shares their journey through the offline-first landscape, evaluating tools like WatermelonDB, Triplit, InstantDB, and PowerSync for building a cross-platform email client. They encountered significant performance issues with large datasets (100MB+) and ultimately settled on Replicache paired with Orama for indexing. The post highlights the fundamental challenges of implementing offline-first architectures in web browsers, where all solutions must work on top of IndexedDB's key-value storage limitations.

Marco – All your emails, one place

Nice, actually offers IMAP support, and not just another gmail wrapper

Just to be sure : The goal is to have an account on Marco that keep the mails configuration on a backend, and allow you to connect from everywhere ?
Because actually, I use Thunderbird, and I have offline access
The only drawback is that I need to export the configuration to use it elsewhere, and there are no web access.

I am one of those people who are waiting for people like you to work on this type of project, as you mention in your story!
I am very enthusiastic about your project, and I hope you will be able to offer a good solution to the email world :)

This looks cleaner than the usual email provider interface and with IMAP support, I think this will be something cool.

It is possible to ‘survive and thrive’ in a crowded, mature market space. Email though, is one of the hardest - and you are pinched quite firmly between Google and Microsoft | Apple | Desktop / Device etc. It is good that you are acknowledging the corpses on the battle field, but there’s a long line beyond the ones you listed. And I say this as someone who was involved in the business of selling the (one time) world’s most popular email software, Eudora.