Hello world! I&#x27;ve been reading HN frequently for the past few years, and a recurring theme I noticed was frustration regarding email (intriguingly, it&#x27;s only the people on HN who seem to dislike email; everyone else seems to universally adore it). So at the start of this year I decided to fix email by creating a new protocol that overcomes some of email&#x27;s shortcomings while remaining backwards-compatible with email. Anything short of a new protocol struck me as lipstick on a pig, and anything that failed to maintain compatibility with email struck me as Google Wave.<p>This repository contains a full-stack implementation of the new protocol, so you can clone the repository, start up a vagrant machine and immediately connect via your web browser to try it out (though if you actually want to use it for sending and receiving emails, you won&#x27;t get far by running it on a network with port 22 blocked). At the moment I don&#x27;t have instructions for setting it up outside of Vagrant, but I&#x27;m also not sure how many people would actually be interested in running it themselves in a production environment. It&#x27;s still quite rough around the edges, so it&#x27;s not quite production-ready anyway, but most of the roughness is in the UI and edge cases in protocol handling which I&#x27;ve worked out logically but haven&#x27;t yet implemented.<p>Protocol ambitions aside, I wanted to learn a lot from this experience--previously I had done some PHP and WordPress development, and I just wanted to try using Node and React to mash a Trello-like app together with email somehow, and things started happening so fast... Mainly I wanted to see how far I could go with one of my &quot;crazy&quot; ideas, because up until now I had always assumed that there would have to be something besides running out of time and money that would fundamentally stop me. Among the many things I learned, I discovered that it really does just boil down to the time and money! :) So now I&#x27;m looking for work.<p>That said, I <i>am</i> planning to continue development on this for my personal use (and possible work use later), so I&#x27;m open to suggestions, feedback, pull requests.... I know an open demo would be the bees knees. I&#x27;m planning to make such a demo in the near future, but for announcing this I did not want to. If you&#x27;re interested in trying it out in a live environment rather than in Vagrant, I&#x27;m running this stack on zombition.com, and you can contact me at &quot;tom&quot; at the aforementioned domain for an invitation. Assuming nothing blows up :)