u/noick-22

Originally started as a joke, but it turned into an interesting engineering experiment around:
Basically I’m trying to use Gmail like a digital storage box 😭

Normally apps need lots of separate services:

• one for database
• one for file uploads
• one for storage

My experiment is:
“What if Gmail could handle all of that?”

So:

• the app secretly stores data inside emails
• folders/labels organize the data
• attached files/images work like cloud storage

Meaning apps could theoretically run using just a Google account + Gmail API.

It’s mostly a fun engineering experiment, not meant to replace real databases 😭
But it’s been surprisingly interesting to build. And soon it will be ready for production based level too.

Curious what scaling/security problems people would expect from this kind of architecture.
Here’s the repo if you want to check it out yourself:
https://github.com/naitik2004/GmailDB

Somebody just created something that could literally save you a stupid amount of money.

I’m not gonna ruin the curiosity by explaining it here — go see it for yourself:

https://github.com/naitik2004/GmailDB
npm install gmaildb