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Pot să vibecodez Shortwave?
// se construiește într-un weekend, dar rămân goluri reale
The core loop is buildable, but a dependable replacement becomes a real weekend or multi-day project. For Shortwave, group Gmail conversations, add bundles and todos, and index mail locally. The hard boundary is deep gmail semantics, cloud search, ai, team features, and mobile sync, plus mail infrastructure, integrations, and client polish.
încredere: medie
ce e: Group Gmail conversations, add bundles and todos, and index mail locally
Indice de constructibilitate · joc editorial
- Preț 8,5 $/lună greutate: plus 1
- Timp câteva zile greutate: plus 1
- Categorie email nu cântărește
- Moat scara infrastructurii · integrări · calitatea execuției greutate: minus 4
- Încredere medie greutate: zero
- Ce pierzi 5 elemente greutate: minus 2
- Site shortwave.com (si apre in una nuova scheda) nu cântărește
Moat-ul cântărește mai mult decât prețul: refăcut, e un proiect, nu o seară.
Gioco editoriale: il verdetto dice se un agente può, l’indice se conviene.
Ce construiești
Connect an existing Gmail mailbox, group conversations into bundles with todos, index messages locally, provide a fast focused inbox, and send through the account's normal SMTP service.
ce îți trebuie
- existing IMAP and SMTP mailbox
- OAuth client credentials where required
- desktop keychain access
- local disk space
Editorial comparison targets the Personal plan and a personal desktop mail client DIY substitute. Recheck price before merge.
Promptul
Un weekend cu un agent de coding. Golurile care rămân sunt mai jos, la „ce pierzi”.
Build a personal replacement for Shortwave in an empty repository.
Use Tauri 2, React, TypeScript, SQLite, IMAP, SMTP, and OAuth where available; do not offer alternative stacks.
The core loop is: connect an existing Gmail mailbox, group conversations into bundles with todos, index messages locally, provide a fast focused inbox, and send through the account's normal SMTP service.
Make the first run work locally with one documented command.
Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward.
Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials.
Support one IMAP and SMTP account with credentials stored only in the OS keychain.
Index headers and message bodies locally with resumable sync and a visible status page.
Implement standards-based threading, folders, labels, archive, snooze, drafts, and search.
Render HTML email in a locked-down sandbox and block remote images by default.
Send multipart messages with attachments and preserve a local copy of every draft.
Add export, local cache reset, account reconnect, diagnostics, and safe logging.
Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states.
Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs.
Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path.
Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps.
Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane.
Deliberately leave out running a public mail server.
Deliberately leave out shared team inboxes and sales workflows.
Deliberately leave out mobile push services and provider-scale spam filtering.
Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. Prompt generat din datele fișei, încă nerevizuit manual. În engleză intenționat — e limba în care agenții de coding se descurcă cel mai bine.
Ce pierzi
- deep Gmail semantics, cloud search, AI, team features, and mobile sync
- mail hosting and deliverability
- push on every platform
- advanced team collaboration
- provider-specific AI and search
De ce se plătește în continuare
People still pay for Shortwave because an email client can be rebuilt; operating a trusted mail service with excellent deliverability cannot. The recurring cost buys IMAP quirks, OAuth, MIME, threading, search, attachments, offline sync, notifications, secure storage, and provider changes, not just the visible interface.
moat: Scara infrastructurii Integrări Calitatea execuției ce e un moat
mail infrastructure, integrations, and client polish
Alternative gratuite
N-ai chef să ți-o construiești? Astea există deja, sunt gratuite sau open source, și le-am verificat una câte una.
Cine l-a construit deja
Să pornești de aici e tot vibecoding: promptul e pentru când o vrei exact în felul tău.
- mailcow (se deschide într-o filă nouă) — Popular open-source mail-server suite that demonstrates the operational complexity of hosted mail.
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