SimpleLogin is an open-source email alias service that protects your inbox by using a unique email alias for every website. Unlimited bandwidth, custom domain, PGP, Yubikey, open roadmap. Made in 🇫🇷.
Hi there ProductHunt
This is Son, the developer behind SimpleLogin here. Thanks @benln for the hunt!
I used to use my Gmail address everywhere, for signing up for new services, subscribing to newsletters, etc. I didn't realize it had become my Internet identity, my "virtual social security number”. My online activities could be easily linked together by this address and my mailbox was an easy target for any spam/phishing campaign.
What if there was a tool to create a different email address for each website? What if there was a way you could just disable an address if it starts receiving spams? And it would make it much harder to follow you across the internet. Actually there was already a way. The secret lays with "email aliases", an old, underused technology, but can help us take back control of our mailboxes.
In 2019 I quit my comfortable job to create that tool. It had to be easy to use, yet powerful enough that an email alias can not only receive email but also send it. It had to be open source, because I didn't want to have to trust a closed-source software to forward my emails, and it had to be available to everyone.
That's how SimpleLogin was born.
First launched in beta in 2020, SimpleLogin now regularly receives positive feedback from the privacy community and "influencers". SimpleLogin is available for Web, mobile (iOS, Android) and as Chrome/Firefox/Safari browser extensions.
SimpleLogin is 100% open source and can be self-hosted. Its notable features include sending emails from aliases, two-factor authentication (TOTP, WebAuth/FIDO, TouchID), custom domains, PGP encryption, multiple mailboxes/usernames, and catch-all/wildcard domains.
It's never too late for us to take back control of our mailboxes and our privacy. 30,000 people have already done it and never looked back.
Can't wait to see you creating your first alias.
Cheers,
Son.
@benln@nguyenkims congrats on the launch.
When you say, "What if there was a tool to create a different email address for each website? What if there was a way you could just disable an address if it starts receiving spams?", my first thought was about how Sign in With Apple lets you hide your email address.
This offers the same functionality, right?
@benln@chrismessina Hey alias created by "Sign in with Apple" doesn't allow sending emails or replying to forwarded emails. It also misses some features like custom domain, an UI to manage aliases, ability to create aliases on the fly, etc. But "Sign in with Apple" is a clear sign that email aliases is becoming mainstream. This is also confirmed by Firefox Relay, another email alias service that was launched last year.
And it's funny that you mention "Sign in with Apple"! Originally SimpleLogin main product was a privacy-focused alternative to "Login with Facebook/Google" and then Apple launched "Sign in with Apple" at their WWDC ... At this point we decided to do the pivot and focus more on the email alias :). "Sign in with SimpleLogin" continues to be developed, though not really visible on the home page, more info about it on https://simplelogin.io/developer/.
@benoit_chambon Yeah, SimpleLogin is based in the EU and is fully GDPR compliant, open-source... Emails transferred through a SimpleLogin alias are immediately deleted once redirected to your real email address, by the way.
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