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I always assumed Gmail bloat came from large attachments. Turns out 3 senders were responsible for 30% of my inbox — thousands of tiny emails I'd never thought to clean up. I built mailtrim to surface this pattern: - ranks senders by actual storage impact (not just count) - confidence scoring on what's safe to bulk-delete - 30-day undo on everything — nothing is permanent by default - runs entirely locally, no email data leaves your machine Free, open source (MIT). No subscription, no backend. One friction point upfront: Gmail API setup is one-time, ~15 min. After that it's just `mailtrim stats` and `mailtrim purge`. Keen to hear feedback on the confidence/safety model especially — that's the part I'm least sure I've got right. https://github.com/sadhgurutech/mailtrim

HN · launched Apr 5, 2026 · 34 upvotes (top 20%) · 0 views

Niche: file management tools · 97 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▲ +20% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Analytics & BI
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

Yes It interacts with the standard Google Gmail REST API via OAuth to inspect message/thread sizes and aggregate storage usage into a breakdown.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Gmail's built-in classification (promotions, updates, social, forums), Manual email cleanup approaches

Concerns raised: Incomplete purge detection - only finds 200 MB in 15 GB mailbox on first run, Gmail API setup friction and authentication complexity, Performance and accuracy with large mailboxes (50k+ emails), Misleading claims about local processing vs. sending data to Anthropic, LLM-generated sample output in README instead of real application output

Feature requests: Local Ollama server support to keep processing completely local, IMAP support for Yahoo, iCloud, and Outlook accounts, Scan archived mail with --all-mail flag or similar (in:anywhere -in:trash -in:spam), Gmail-style scope categories in addition to anywhere scope

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 294 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #60 of 295 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 114 days after the earliest competitor.

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