u/metalleo

Some shit definitely has gone down to be removed silently just like that

<Images blurred because supposedly I shouldn't be sharing content from mobame>

Quite a bit of a random topic, but in the past few days I made a browser-based app that I can use to read the mails I receive from AKB's mobile mail subscription, which I subbed to via their website so I'm receiving a heck of a lot of emails in my inbox daily.

Side note: I know they have a mobile app, I used to sub there for about 2 years until I realised it's way cheaper to do it via their website, and the website version gives random perks every month or so with week long free trials to selected members which is not available on the app. Not to mention the app does have its limitations (imagine scrolling for tens of minutes to find a mail or image from many years back)

Back to the topic, I think it might be just me, but I didn't find scrolling through my inbox particularly intuitive, especially given the way I organise my mails (I have to, otherwise I'll have thousands of their emails clogging my inbox), so I figured I might try to vibe code an app that is functionally similar to their mobile app, while adding some QoL stuff that I wanted to see in their official app (mostly just the page jump stuff so I don't need to spend ages scrolling). Got the idea at work after watching some of the guys there working on some dashboards using Dash in python, and figured a mobame app might be a workable idea using the same method. Almost zero knowledge of how the backend works though, so Claude and Codex did most of the heavy lifting while I just poked around the simpler stuff, I'll get around to analysing how everything works eventually.

Quite happy with how it turned out so far so just wanted to share. Basically it's just 3 pages: the front page with all the emails (filterable by member), a gallery page with every single photo sent by the members (also filterable) which opens a lightbox with the full image after clicking on one, and the actual email page which also displays all attached images in-line just like how it appears in my gmail.

Everything is stored locally in my PC; I have a separate script that accesses Gmail's API, pulls the latest emails from each member, and then gets all the details like subject and datetime and email contents and throw it all into SQL tables which the app then pulls data from. Images are also saved to a folder in my PC and the app just reads the files from there and displays it.

Still trying to see if there are any bugs, been finding some that I needed to fix over the past 2-3 days, but other than that I feel like I'm quite proud of this, even if a good chunk of what I did was just to prompt the AI to get what I want lol.