Show HN: The Inbox Checkup – Compare your inbox mastery with everyone else (opens in new tab)

I have always been so nervous about my email habits that I would happily share my private email with a complete stranger in order to receive a ranking. I would feel even better if I could win a prize!

I just tried it out on an email address that doesn't contain any sensitive information:

I think there is something off: gmail lets me browse to 50k+ emails (or conversations?), your tool reports around 1k emails received. I'm not sure that 50k number is accurate, but there are a lot more than 1k.

Tried it. Seems OK. Not worth the access to data it required.

This post would do better on Reddit in dataisbeautiful or something.

Here's an example scraped from Google: https://checkup.frontapp.com/9df36f035e474281931

More:

https://checkup.frontapp.com/ef2358ade51b29fb9fe https://checkup.frontapp.com/1b68de2c4523717ee8a https://checkup.frontapp.com/189bdd53fc517dcd1ee https://checkup.frontapp.com/72dd67265b3244f5b37 (Rank 9)

Yeah, don't think I am going to provide access to my inbox to some random website. Hell, I don't think I would provide access to ANY website.

The red/yellow/green coloring to me seems to imply that you want to be above average with these metrics, but I'm not sure that above average is necessarily a good thing here. Things like "response time", quicker is probably better, but "emails sent" — the two of the links from Mandatum had someone ending ~50 emails per day! It may very well depend on your job, of course, but to me, that's too much even to receive in a day (I don't want to read 50 emails.), and your email is going to be automatically sorted and likely ignored. "Contacts reached" also seems to imply higher is better, whereas I would think that more targeted conversations might be better. (But then, courtesy might demand CC'ing a list or a person in, so harder to say.) "Emails per conversation": taking more emails to conclude whatever is needed is better? Not meeting face to face if email isn't cutting it, or being clear and concise on the first email?

This is a pretty neat tool! Could only check my personal email. Company email uses Office365.

This is gmail only BTW.

Getting a bad request error on signing in with Google.

Thanks but no thanks

are you NSA? ;)