Inboxpref by BuildApps for email management

When you receive the hundredth email about a sporting event, an invitation to a summit, or a cooperation offer in a day, you lose focus and just want to delete all the contents of your inbox in batches. This is exactly the problem one of our clients had. And yes, we solved it in a rather... non-trivial way.

Want to know more details about this project? Check out the following parts of the case study.

The client was one of the well-known investors who retired from business and changed occupation. However, even now, the client still receives many emails with various business offers, news, etc. This volume of messages takes too much time, which prompts the client to look for ways to solve the problem.

After reviewing the client's challenges and wishes, we defined an action plan and started implementing the new project. It should be noted right away that this is an individual development that can only be used by the product owner.

After discussing the project, we faced the following tasks:

• Develop a product that will not only filter incoming emails but also perform certain actions.
• Add a GUI for quick and easy configuration of mail processing parameters.
• Integrate algorithms for processing incoming emails.
• Program a specific set of actions and reactions via the API.
• Pack the product in a convenient format.

The solution's main task is to free up the inbox by dividing mail into different categories and assigning special tags to each individual email. We expanded on this task a bit and created a product with a powerful UX.

To implement the GUI, we used the Mantine library (for React), and the rest of the algorithms were created on the basis of the Google Cloud API. Thus, we developed a specialized Google Chrome extension application that works exclusively with Gmail. The product features are as follows:

• 100% personalized algorithms that meet the needs and wishes of the client.
• A multi-layered action algorithm (Gmail itself offers only 1 action per email).
• Automation of incoming mail processing.
• Active feedback communication with the sender. The sender receives a request to assign one of the categories to email.
• Automatic response to certain categories of emails, including a polite rejection of an offer, etc.
• The ability to redirect emails to a secretary or assistant.
• A flexible system for setting up categories and criteria for assigning labels to emails.

As for the challenges during development, it takes time to build extensive algorithms for the product that should be executed depending on whether the email meets a whole list of conditions.

Our client is a busy entrepreneur who often lacks time to process numerous incoming emails. That's why our product became the tool that allowed to organize account space and optimize inbox so that only valuable and useful information was highlighted.

As of now, the extension fulfills its purpose by 100%, but we already have a task to truly modernize it.

Would you like to get a similar product for your needs? Contact a BuildApps consultant to discuss the project.