Stop the Spam
Gmail unsubscriber that actually works
Promo vs. receipt detection
Gmail filters, not just unsubscribe
One-click undo
The Problem
My inbox had become a graveyard of newsletters I signed up for once and never read again. Promos from every service I've ever used. Marketing emails from companies I bought one thing from 3 years ago. Hundreds of senders, all competing for my attention, and I was losing.
Existing unsubscribe tools are either painfully slow (clicking through one at a time) or don't catch the senders that don't include proper unsubscribe links. I wanted something aggressive.
How It Works
- Scans 500+ emails to build a complete list of every sender hitting your inbox
- Smart filtering that knows the difference between Amazon order confirmations and Amazon promotional emails. It only silences the promos, not the stuff you actually need
- Gmail filter creation to skip the inbox for senders that don't have proper unsubscribe links. No more manual rules
- Pick and choose or go YOLO. Select individual senders to silence, or hit the nuclear button and silence everything at once (with a confirmation warning, obviously)
- Full undo page to view every silenced sender and restore any of them with one click
The Build
V2 shipped with what I'm calling the "fiery aesthetic": red, orange, and yellow gradients across every page with aggressive copy to match. The whole vibe is "I'm so sick of this spam and I'm going to burn it all down." Built entirely with Claude Code.
The technical heart is the Gmail API integration with OAuth. Getting the scopes right was a process, especially the gmail.settings.basic scope needed for creating filters. Smart sender detection required analyzing email headers to distinguish promotional senders from transactional ones, since many companies send both.
One fun challenge: deduplicating senders. Early versions showed the same company 6 times because each email had a slightly different sender address. Switched to domain-only deduplication and each sender now appears exactly once.
What's Next
V2 is deployed and working. Next up is Stripe integration for a premium tier and Apple Pay support. Also need to do a full end-to-end test of the OAuth flow since adding the new Gmail scope.