A UK-centric Email Provider Side Project

I recently saw a Reddit post in the BuyUK sub-reddit about UK alternatives to providers like Gmail. From the comments it sounded like there weren't really any out there, which got me interested. Could there be a gap in the market for people who like to buy local.

So I spent a day putting together my own UK-centric email provider.

I used ChatGPT to help me quickly build a landing and sign-up page. Next I set up a London based VPS to host the Laravel site, along with Postfix and Dovecot. Dovecot was set up to use the same database as Laravel for users, so the Laravel site can be used for user management. Finally I set up Roundcube for webmail.

The MVP is now up at https://brit.email

There's still more features to add, but that can wait until there's actually proven demand for the service.