Kanmail
Turn your inbox into a Kanban board
Details
- External ID
- 46348462
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Kanmail
- Website domain
- kanmail.io
- Launched
- Dec. 21, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10400763358778627
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hey HN! Been a while.. last post for reference in 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22985055. Moved city, job and had two children since then which is wild :)Been working away shifting Kanmail over to a Go backend (using the excellent wails) and rewriting the frontend in TypeScript. This "new" v2 is much quicker, overcomes a bunch of old limitations (no age limit on paginating folders) and finally gets a working Linux AppImage (*my Linux test setup is somewhat limited and I expect there's plenty of edge cases here - hit me up if you have issues).Anyway, would love any feedback on site or app, the previous round was incredibly useful.
Enrichment
- Theme
- email infrastructure and inbox utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- kanban board from email inbox
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a reliable, multi-account desktop email client requires deep protocol expertise with IMAP/SMTP/OAuth, handling RFC email parsing edge cases, local MIME decoders, offline SQLite sync, and persistent IMAP IDLE connections.
What it would actually take: The application relies on Go with Wails for native desktop bindings, alongside an embedded database (like SQLite with full-text search) and custom IMAP/JMAP/Gmail API synchronization workers. The primary difficulty lies in dealing with edge-case MIME message parsing, broken IMAP implementations across legacy providers, robust bi-directional sync/offline conflict resolution, and background push notifications (IMAP IDLE). This necessitates seasoned systems and network protocol engineering expertise.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 26 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #26 of 27 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 51 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Rdltr · hn · 2026-09-09 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- deariary · hn · 2026-03-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Oku · hn · 2026-03-19 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Kyoo v5 · hn · 2026-04-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.34
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