what are your goals? it's usually tough to sell things to developers because they are very particular about how they want their software to work, and also would rather build their own tools much of the time (which is increasingly true with AI now).

if you really want to sell it, you should probably make sure that you have customers willing to pay, which means talking to potential customers and getting them on a waitlist. i think it's usually more likely that other people don't care about your software like you do (because you built it to be exactly what you want and know how it works) and even then, aren't willing to pay to use it (or pay very much)

if you're not very concerned about making money and mostly just want something nice for yourself that other people _might_ care about, then sure, go for it! i build software like that all the time

I run eM Client which I think is like Outlook except it actually works right. I'd be fair game for another desktop email client, particularly if it took advantage of JMAP

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8621.html

Yeah. Probably. Depending on what you want to achieve.

I don't love my email client, but I don't really hate it either. It's in the kinda-just-is category. Also, it's a hard problem, more a lot of hard problems with "corners"; but, a super learning experience if you do it. Dealing with goofy protocols, networks, etc. will probably stand you in good stead whatever the outcome.

Go ahead. But, don't expect much apart from good personal growth.

I am struggling with pricing though. I don't want a subscription model because most devs (most people) hate it and I hate it myself. But I don't know what's a fair price for an email client that gives you a unified inbox for all your accounts with on-device local AI and all sort of efficient ways to crank through hundreds of emails in minutes...