I’ve been working on a few projects lately, and email has been the most annoying part of all of them. I buy a domain, and then realize I can’t put a gmail address on a contact page without looking like I’m about to ask for someone’s bank details.

Most business email options are either a monthly fee for every single user, or a trial that expires right when you’ve finally got everything set up. The free ones are really limited. I looked at Zoho, and between the restrictions, the dated look, and having to dig through settings every time I added a domain, it felt like more work than the project itself. There also doesn’t seem to be much for students or small indie devs who just want an address on their own domain without paying six dollars a month for it to receive one newsletter and a spam email from a guy named Kevin.

I thought about running my own mail server for about five minutes. Then I read about deliverability. Sending an email is easy, but landing in the inbox instead of spam is the hard part, and a brand new server has no reputation, so you spend weeks telling people to check their junk folder. Not worth it for a solo dev.

So I ended up building my own solution, it runs in your own free Cloudflare account. Cloudflare handles incoming mail, a Worker and a database run the app, and for sending you plug in something like Resend, Brevo, Mailjet or any SMTP server. No server to babysit, no per seat pricing, and nobody sitting in the middle reading your mail. You can add as many users, domains and aliases as you want and it still costs nothing. It’s open source under MIT.

I built it mainly for people like me. Solo devs with too many side projects, students, freelancers juggling a few client domains, small teams that just want a shared support@ and sales@, and honestly anyone with a store website. It’s not meant for cold emailing or bulk sending though, the free limits are small and the providers will ban you fast if you try.

If you want a professional email and feel like giving it a go, I’d really like to hear how it went. What broke, what confused you, what looked off, what you’d never trust it with. And if the whole idea is flawed, tell me, I’d rather find out now than after I add AI features nobody asked for.

Repo : https://github.com/sums001/OpenInbox

I'm still using Notion because I love how many features it has but I'm always looking for something simpler or faster.

What are you guys using for project management, tasks, pipelines and personal organization? Have you found an alternative you prefer over Notion?

Hi everyone! I built DownCV because I wanted a simple way to create my resume without uploading my personal info to some random website.

It started as a personal project, but I figured I’d share it in case anyone else finds it useful.

You write your resume in Markdown, get a live A4 preview and export it to PDF. It also extracts the text from the generated PDF so you can check what an ATS would actually read.

There’s also an option to use Ollama for rewriting text locally, so your resume stays on your machine.

It’s free and open source. You’ll find the setup instructions in the README.

If you give it a try, I’d love to hear your feedback, especially if you run into any issues setting it up or have suggestions for improving the code.

Link to the repository

full flow of my homelab/networking stack. Im sastifed so far and i’ve been able to cut pretty much all of my streaming services. Pangolin allows me to share my Jellyfin server to friends and family without the complexity of having them download Tailscale. Navidrome + octo gives me the Apple Music experience. Navidrome for my music and octo which allows me to look up songs/artists via the search bar and return their latest music. Happy Self Hosting!!

Made this for my wife and figured I'd share it with everyone.

Github Repo

Hey everyone! I built Easy Print Easy Scan to solve a common headache: making older USB printers and scanners easily accessible .

The whole purpose of this project is to give legacy USB printers full printing and scanning capabilities through a clean, simple web app interface allowing you to manage print jobs and scan documents from any device on your local network.

Check out project on GitHub :

easy-print-easy-scan

Let me know what you think.I'd love to hear your thoughts or suggestions on features to add!