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ValidatedⓘEvidence tiers: Early signal = 1 uncorroborated request — treat as radar, not a validated opportunity · Corroborated = 2-3 requests · Validated = 4+ requests from 2+ different people. Every count appears exactly once, in the fact bar below — each traces to a real source post.
Private email hosting
4
builder posts asking
latest ask seen 4w ago
+1 product/news post tracked · 1 event tracked
see the posts →In their words
"I wanted a backup plan for gMail and O365 as I love the commodity of the service but I hate the idea of losing access." — a builder, verbatim · sign in free to trace the source ↗
What they tried & dropped
Extracted word-for-word from the evidence posts below — every item is quoted verbatim from a real builder.
selfhosting email
— "frustration of blacklist spam RBL ip reputation greylisting etc etc etc"
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Tutamail
— "only works if an entire domain is connected and all mail is put into one mailbox"
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IMAPFlow
— (no stated shortcoming)
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Pain, in numbers
Quantified only where a builder stated a real figure — no LLM estimates.
100-user cap
Hard requirements
Non-negotiables stated by builders in their own words. Miss one and they will not switch.
selfhosted approachsupport for multiple mailboxes per domainself-hosted
Competitor pricing
Named rivals & real prices 🔒
Rivals charge $5/mo · names — log in ↗
How we checked
Where we searched
3 sources · GitHub (open-source check) · App Store · SaaS marketplaces
Verification funnel
87 raw matches scanned, then AI-de-duped · see the breakdown below
Last scan
18d ago · auto-refreshed every 30 days
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Every source post · named rivals with real prices · what builders tried & dropped · quantified pain — all traceable to the original posts
Sign up free →Signal history
5 tracked posts (4 asks · 1 product/news)
first post Jul 2026
0 in the last 30 days
Cumulative tracked posts (asks + products + news) by original post date · GapMine tracked communities — not search volume · every step traces to a real post in the evidence record (sign in to read them).
Evidence pool
5 source posts picked as evidence — each insight links back to a real one.
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