My name is Matt. By day I run a startup called Virgo (https://virgosvs.com) that's building AI for endoscopy to solve diseases mediated by the gut. By night I like to hack away on fun side projects. BAREMAIL was inspired by my own frustration just trying to get a few emails taken care of while dealing with spotty airplane wifi. Gmail's web interface transfers megabytes on every load. On a connection throttled to 50–200 Kbps — the kind you get at 35,000 feet — that means 30–60 second load times, frequent timeouts, and an essentially unusable experience. All to read a few text emails and send a short reply. So I built BAREMAIL: a Gmail client where the entire UI fits in ~60KB, caches itself permanently, and the only thing that travels over the wire is your actual email content. A few kilobytes per inbox load. A couple kilobytes per message. It's open source, has no backend, and your data never touches a third party. Just you, your browser, and Gmail's API. PS. check out the inbox zero easter eggs!

BAREMAIL ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ

Minimalist Gmail client for bad wifi connections

Minimalist Gmail client for bad wifi connections