Annesque Email Client

Hiring in technology has always been hectic. On the one hand, beginners and people without experience or big names on their resumes cannot get their foot in the door. On the other hand, well-established and even not-so-well-established software professionals would be constantly bombarded by recruiters, automated recruiters, marketing systems, and various fraudsters masquerading as HR. Many a time I've heard laments about how LinkedIn is so annoying, people quit it and hate it, and some other platforms are even worse. Publishing one's phone number would mean a constant onslaught of meaningless, time-wasting calls, or worse things such as fraud. Then, everyone's phone was ringing, the whole communications system was under attack whether you published your phone number or not. And then it just stopped.

In email, things were loooking much better. Email is one of the last free-standing platforms, but even it is under a continuous attack and stress. Scammers and spammers would register a domain ($12), not even put up a basic website, only put up a single MX record and start spamming everyone. For the consumer or an independent professional, there are a few self-defense options. Falling back on a big platform is a possibility. They offer spam filters. Of course, they also decide what gets into people's mailboxes and what doesn't - so the freedom of email as the last standing platform, greatly diminishes. It's being diminished regardless: the few professionals and organizations who maintain their own infrastructure are tiny compared to the vast majority of people using some huge platform, be it a G or an M of an F or otherwise.

Still, someone has to do it. There must be a continuation of professionals maintaining the infrastructure. If noone does email, then email will disappear and all we'll be left with is LinkedIn, maybe, where it costs a few dollars to send a message, and you speak when you are permitted to speak. To counter that, I have developed my own email platform.

It's based on Postal but the underlying layer is not set in stone, it can be swapped out for anything. It used to use Amazon AWS for receiving and delivery not that long ago. The front can also be swapped out for anything else. So in a way, the platform is very modular and flexible and can be expanded and adapted, and plays well with a number of systems.