I got a $420 email bill, so I built FranklyMail: unlimited mailboxes and domains for $9 a year

A month ago this was just an invoice that annoyed me. I launched it here yesterday.

Five people on Google Workspace, $420 for the year. Two of them sent maybe six emails a month between them, and one was a shared address that existed so a contact form had somewhere to post. Full seat price for what was basically a database row with an MX record pointed at it.

The thing that bothered me is that a mail server doesn't care how many people are on it. It cares about bytes stored and bytes moved. Everyone bills the human and pays for the gigabyte, which is why adding careers@ or invoices@ costs you money it really shouldn't.

So I built one that charges for the storage and gives the headcount away. $9 a year, unlimited mailboxes, unlimited domains, 10 GB pooled across the whole account, $0.40/GB after that. One plan, no tiers, no free version, no per-seat math.

Where it actually is right now: 28 accounts, 104 mailboxes, and a bit over 200 emails have moved through it. Small numbers, but they're the real ones and I'd rather say them than imply something bigger.

Things it deliberately doesn't do: no bulk or marketing sending, no calendar or drive, no lifetime deals. And if your problem is one 200 GB archive, storage is metered, so this won't be your cheapest option. Better you hear that from me now than at renewal.

The launch is up if you want to have a look. Happy to take questions here too, including the awkward ones.