[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":181},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-27256186":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":9,"maker":10,"posted_at":11,"year":12,"points":13,"comments":14,"rank_in_year":15,"shown_in_year":16,"top":17,"tier":18,"category":19,"subcategory":20,"format":21,"keywords":22,"reception":27,"sentiment":9,"stance_mix":28,"scored_comments":32,"aspects":33,"strip":36,"post_text":38,"what":39,"said":71,"maker_in_thread":117,"shape":126,"grid":130,"attempts":143,"same_week":144,"maker_shows":30,"maker_hidden":173,"reader_version":174,"card":175},"27256186","Unattach","free up your Google storage by removing Gmail attachments","title","Show HN: Unattach – free up your Google storage by removing Gmail attachments",null,"strnisa",1621786787,2021,31,7,1131,2533,45,"shown","productivity","email attachment management","desktop_app",[23,24,25,26],"gmail attachments","free up google storage","gmail cleanup","bulk download attachments","quiet",{"positive":29,"neutral":30,"mixed":31,"critical":31},1,3,0,4,{"idea":34,"execution":35},{"positive":31,"critical":31},{"positive":29,"critical":31},[30,31,37,31,30,30,31],5,"Hello HackerNews!\n\nI have a full-time job, but love building productivity tools in my spare time. Some time ago, my dad told me that his Gmail account was full and asked whether I could help. I built a simple app for him, and later decided to make it into a product. With the recent news that Google is discontinuing free storage for photos, more and more people are facing a similar problem.\n\nUnattach (https:\u002F\u002Funattach.app) is a desktop app for downloading and\u002For removing Gmail attachments from many emails at once. You can use it to free up your Google storage, which is shared between Gmail, Pho",{"problem":40,"audience":46,"pricing":51,"motivation":55,"time_to_build":9,"stack":59,"openness":68,"stage":69,"team_size":70},{"value":41,"source":42,"evidence":43},"Gmail and Google storage fill up with large email attachments","maker",[44],{"id":45},"post",{"value":47,"source":48,"evidence":49},"Users whose Google storage is full, especially from Gmail attachments","inferred",[50],{"id":45},{"value":52,"source":42,"evidence":53},"Software free; pre-built installers paid; source under restricted Shared Source license",[54],{"id":45},{"value":56,"source":42,"evidence":57},"Built for a relative's full Gmail account, then turned into a product",[58],{"id":45},[60],{"value":61,"source":62,"evidence":63},"Java","commenter",[64],{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},"27262271","sorokod","Refreshing to see a Java app trending on HN.","open_source","launched","solo",{"praise":72,"objections":80,"requests":92,"questions":107,"alternatives":112},[73],{"value":74,"source":62,"evidence":75},"Works well for users",[76],{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},"27262207","k4rli","Worked well for me, thank you! Top bar menus won't stay open and can't be used unless I hold mouse down and navigate with arrows. Linux and compiled from source.",[81,85],{"value":82,"source":62,"evidence":83},"Top bar menus do not stay open and need mouse-hold navigation on Linux",[84],{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},{"value":86,"source":62,"evidence":87},"Simple size-based filtering in Gmail may be enough",[88],{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},"27256657","arkitaip","I really cleaned out Gmail a couple of months ago and all I had to do was to filter for attachments over a specific size. How much different is your app?",[93,100],{"value":94,"source":62,"evidence":95},"Build a similar tool for Google Photos",[96],{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"27260696","newuser1234567","Great! Can you make one for Google photos? It's impossible to delete photos easily from Google",{"value":101,"source":62,"evidence":102},"Make it a website",[103],{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"27256597","anishjain2000","is this possible to make this as webiste",[108],{"value":109,"source":62,"evidence":110},"How is it different from filtering and deleting large attachments?",[111],{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},[113],{"value":114,"source":62,"evidence":115},"Filtering Gmail by attachment size and deleting",[116],{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},{"comments":118,"answered":29,"key":119},2,[120,123],{"id":121,"text":122},"27256716","The main benefit of using Unattach over simply deleting the emails is that you can keep all the other parts of your emails in your Gmail server. These are often valuable, don't…",{"id":124,"text":125},"27256980","I believe that it would be possible to make it into a website, yes. The main reason why I haven't gone this way is because of the trust issue, which most users care about. At the…",{"commenters":127,"max_depth":118,"maker_replies":118,"first_comment_mins":128,"lifespan_hours":129},6,46,17,[131,133,135,137,139,140,141],[89,31,30,132,90,31],"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fidea",[121,31,31,134,10,29],"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fidea",[77,29,37,136,78,31],"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fexecution",[65,118,31,138,66,31],"other\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone",[97,30,30,132,98,31],[104,32,30,132,105,31],[124,32,31,142,10,29],"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fprivacy",[],[145,150,155,159,164,169],{"id":146,"name":147,"points":148,"category":149},"27254177","SNKRX",496,"games",{"id":151,"name":152,"points":153,"category":154},"27249082","Inflation-adjusted Hacker News",437,"consumer_social",{"id":156,"name":157,"points":158,"category":154},"27293902","findareddit.com",406,{"id":160,"name":161,"points":162,"category":163},"27224094","pintr",405,"creative",{"id":165,"name":166,"points":167,"category":168},"27264500","CloudBite",365,"learning_science",{"id":170,"name":171,"points":172,"category":19},"27219646","Nyxt Browser 2.0.0",359,false,"v2",{"id":176,"name":5,"line":6,"ai":173,"cat":19,"year":12,"points":13,"comments":14,"rec":27,"s":9,"top":17,"kw":177,"maker":10,"domain":178,"tier":18,"attempts":31,"strip":179,"url":-1,"mix":180,"praise":74,"objection":82,"sub":20},27256186,[23,24,25,26],"","3050330",[29,30,31,31],1794036607053]