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Soft Send
Hold Gmail messages in a local queue for configurable delay
Gmail gives you up to 30 seconds to regret a send. Soft Send gives you real breathing room: delay emails from 1 minute to 1 hour, then cancel, pause, or edit before they leave. It also catches mistakes Gmail won’t: missing attachments, first-time recipients, risky Reply-Alls, sensitive info, and rushed drafts. It’s still private: no server, no tracking. Your email stays local until Soft Send sends it through Gmail’s API.
I built Soft Send because Gmail’s Undo Send always felt like a band-aid: useful, but too short and too passive.
The real problem is not just “I need 30 seconds to undo.” It’s that email mistakes usually become obvious a few minutes later: wrong tone, missing attachment, accidental Reply-All, sensitive info, or a recipient you didn’t mean to include.
Soft Send turns sending into a short safety window. It gives you time to cancel, pause, or edit, and it adds warnings when an email looks risky. I wanted email to feel less irreversible without sending drafts through another server or sacrificing privacy.
Does delaying through the Gmail API mean the email actually queues on your local device, so if I close my laptop before the timer hits the email just sits there unsent until I open it again?
About Soft Send on Product Hunt
“Hold Gmail messages in a local queue for configurable delay”
Soft Send was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #137 on the daily leaderboard. Gmail gives you up to 30 seconds to regret a send. Soft Send gives you real breathing room: delay emails from 1 minute to 1 hour, then cancel, pause, or edit before they leave. It also catches mistakes Gmail won’t: missing attachments, first-time recipients, risky Reply-Alls, sensitive info, and rushed drafts. It’s still private: no server, no tracking. Your email stays local until Soft Send sends it through Gmail’s API.
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