02 / EMAIL CLIENT
OLA
Gmail's own client is heavy, and the slick alternatives route your mail through their servers first. Ola is a native Gmail client with a Slack-clean interface that talks to Google directly.
- OUTCOME
- A Tauri desktop app and PWA built straight on the Gmail API — per-account OAuth, Pub/Sub push, and web-push alerts. Azure OpenAI handles triage, summaries, and smart replies across every account, in one keyboard-driven inbox.
- STACK
- Tauri · Next.js · Azure OpenAI
- Straight to Google, with nothing in between
- Most polished Gmail alternatives relay mail through their own servers, which means an outage or a breach on their side is an outage or a breach in your inbox. Ola talks to the Gmail API directly from the client, with per-account OAuth. There is no intermediate mail store to trust, because there is no intermediate mail store.
- Push, not polling
- Live mail over a REST API usually degrades into aggressive polling and rate limits. Gmail's Pub/Sub push notifications carry changes as they happen, and web push relays them to the device even when the app is closed. The result behaves like a native client because it is reacting to events rather than asking repeatedly.
- One keyboard, several accounts
- Multi-account support is an interface problem more than an auth problem. Each account holds its own OAuth grant, but triage, summaries, and smart replies run across all of them into a single keyboard-driven surface — so switching contexts does not mean switching windows.
- MAILBOX
- GMAIL API
- ACCOUNTS
- MULTI
- AI
- TRIAGE · REPLY