> 98% of my time went into wrestling with IMAP parsing architectures, optimizing memory, and code-signing certificates instead of designing custom CSS layouts from scratch

You're just using imapflow and their Gmail search method. Why are you making things up? https://imapflow.com/docs/guides/fetching-messages#gmail-spe...

You call that function with this query over and over again:

filename:(jpg OR jpeg OR png OR gif OR webp OR heic OR tif) after:${year}/01/01 before:${year + 1}/01/01

And then you call their download method: https://imapflow.com/docs/guides/fetching-messages#downloadi...

All you did was throw together a frontend, package it into Electron, paywall it, and try to obfuscate the code.

What part of that is "wrestling IMAP parsing architectures"?