# Jmail

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/jmail/

11 people recommended Jmail in Hacker News comments, 3 had mixed feelings and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 12 months, in 9 threads. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Recommended as an easy, Gmail-style way to browse the Epstein files on mobile, though critics find it slow with weak search.

Summary written by Claude from 42 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 18 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Impressive work by its creators (4 comments in the sample): "Although just Riley and I first made Jmail, it's been really gratifying to see companies, journalists, and fellow developers like Diego rise to the occasion" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039184)) "Jmail.world and the entire Jmail suite is mind-blowingly impressive" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46593138)) "Riley Walz and the folks at Jmail deserve a lot of credit as well." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015779))
- Easy and intuitive to browse files (1 comment in the sample): "jmail has made it so much easier for everyone to explore the files." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961677))
- Feels like the Google interface (1 comment in the sample): "I really like the style of copying the “google tool” style that this website and jmail use." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411762))

## What people warn about

- Slow to load emails (3 comments in the sample): "kind of frustrating that it takes so long for each email to load" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46004633)) "It's very very slow. Basically unusable" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005121)) "670KB by itself and loaded on initial load, so I think they might have blown your suggested traffic budget" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961716))
- Search is weak and unfiltered (1 comment in the sample): "the search functionality is quite poor with little filtering available" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057789))

## Other web apps people recommend

- [Stowaway](https://hackerapproved.com/p/stowaway/): 18 recommend, 3 mixed, 4 criticize
- [Sun Position Calculator](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sun-position-calculator/): 9 recommend, 1 mixed, 1 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Jmail", https://hackerapproved.com/p/jmail/ (11 recommend, 3 mixed, 5 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.