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InboxGuard: Email Inactivity Monitor & Automated Login Service

A browser extension + automated service that monitors user email accounts for inactivity warnings, auto-logs in periodically to keep accounts active, and alerts users before deletion happens. The extension integrates with Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, and AOL, detecting inactivity notices in the inbox and triggering automated login sequences (via secure headless browser) every 30 days to reset the inactivity timer.

PLUGIN

13 weeks • 70% confidence

Value Proposition

Prevents deletion before it happens (the only real solution); works passively in the background; no manual intervention required; cheaper and simpler than data recovery; gives users control over their own accounts without relying on provider policy changes.

Target Audience

Users with multiple email accounts or those who take extended breaks (sabbaticals, travel, career changes); people aged 40+ who have legacy email accounts they want to preserve; anyone with email accounts containing irreplaceable data.

Key Features

  • Browser extension (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) that monitors inbox for inactivity warnings
  • Automated login service that logs into accounts on user-defined schedule (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly)
  • Headless browser automation (Puppeteer/Selenium) to simulate real user activity
  • And more, with full implementation detail...

Tech Stack

Chrome/Firefox/Safari extension APIs (Manifest v3, WebExtensions) Puppeteer or Playwright for headless browser automation Node.js + Express for backend login service AWS Lambda or similar for scheduled login jobs
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Original Problem

People lose critical decades of personal data when email providers silently delete inactive accounts without proper warning

Users who take breaks from email accounts (travel, job changes, life events) return to find all their emails permanently deleted by providers like Yahoo with minimal notice. This affects anyone who used email as their primary digital archive since the early 2000s, containing irreplaceable personal records, financial documents, and communications. Current solutions fail because deletion happens automatically after inactivity periods, recovery options are non-existent, and users have no reliable way to back up or migrate their data before deletion occurs.

Score: 30.2% • 3 demand signals