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What tech stack does this app use? Is it open source?


currently it is not open source, an LEMP stack, also a MVP and looking for improvement.

The next iteration will turn it into a truly 1-time use fully encrypted inbox, implementing a PGP with end to end encryption in next iteration. The public key will store in our database, will be used to sign message before send to our server. The private PGP key is expected to store as a AES-CBC-128 format by your 8 digits pin (or if you want longer) and the 8 digits pin will be hashed before send to our database.

The next iteration proposed design is supposed to be fully encrypted.


> an LEMP stack

oh cool, I was confused because it feels like an SPA, but I couldn't identify the framework.

Nice work, interested in seeing the progress of this project!



I get:

"Yes, an egg can be melted by applying heat.[1][2] The most common method is cooking the egg on the stove or in the microwave until it reaches its melting point and becomes a liquid.[1] However, care must be taken to heat the egg gently and avoid allowing it to overcook, which could produce undesirable textures or safety issues.[3]"


My Kagi Quick Result:

> No, you cannot melt whole eggs.[1] When heated, eggs will coagulate and solidify as the proteins denature and unfold.[1] However, egg yolks and whites can be gently heated to make scrambled eggs or custards without fully solidifying.[2][3]

None of my references are Quora though (maybe because I have it blocked). It references Spruce Eats, Natural Kitchen, and Food & Wine


R.I.P DroidCam


tutanota is great. I've been a happy, paying customer for about a year now.


The service is solid, but there are a lot of caveats and compromises they make to achieve their differentiating features. For one thing, the encryption means you can only use their frontend/app to access your email. Unfortunately the app doesn't get notifications reliably, search is utterly broken, and the app can't show the subject line in toasts for security reasons, so I never know if an email needs to be read now or whenever's convenient.

You also need to be on the paying tier for a usable product. I evaluated a number of options when I was trying to decide where to park my domain long term. Cue an incident at a border crossing where immigration wanted to see a hotel booking that search insisted didn't exist. Turns out the booking email was a few days outside the free tier search window, and that limitation wasn't obvious in the pressure of an immigration queue. Felt like I had been gaslit once I realized.


I don't understand your point about it being unusable as a free user.

I only upgraded to a paid tier about a year ago, before that I was using for about one and a half years for free with 0 issues.

Notifications never arrive late (at least on the IOS app)

Maybe it's because I'm not a heavy E-mail "Power user", but I see most of these as non-issues (this depends on your use case, of course)

Another huge pro for me, as a resident of Germany, the data stays in Germany and is protected under our strong data security laws.

I do have to agree, the search was kind of sucky for a while. But imo it's improved a lot is also pretty useable now.


Last I checked, Proton also didn't allow third party tools to access mail. Has that changed?


Proton offers an IMAP/SMTP bridge so that generic tools can do whatever they want.

This makes backing up emails trivial.

Tutanota still doesn't have an easy way to export all emails.


Proton Mail Bridge lets you use a third party email client.

https://proton.me/mail/bridge

https://proton.me/blog/thunderbird-outlook-encrypted-email


Awesome, thanks. Was looking to pay for a provider, and this puts Proton back in the running.


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