BetterMail

An AI-powered email client used by 100+ users, integrating Gmail and Outlook accounts through OAuth with a unified inbox experience.

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An AI-powered email client used by 100+ users, integrating Gmail and Outlook accounts through OAuth with a unified inbox experience. Built queue-driven inbox synchronization and indexing pipelines using BullMQ and Redis. Implemented a RAG-based email assistant with PII redaction, combining Elasticsearch and vector search to answer questions over private inbox data.

Tech Stack

Node.js

Express

PostgreSQL Redis

RedisBullMQ

Elasticsearch

LangGraph

OAuth2

From LinkedIn

BetterMail is dead. 100+ users, 1.4K visitors, Manu Arora's comment, Piyush Garg's live reaction — built it after getting fired, on a borrowed Visa card running Azure VMs through SSH tunnels. Killed by a $1,500 Google security assessment. Full story here.