opacity.email

securely mask your email address for free

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Preamble

This was made in 6 total dev hours on a Saturday evening, and is aimed to be a free alternative for services like iCloud Private Relay and Firefox Relay. You can access the live site and test it for yourself.

Prerequisites

• AWS Account with SES access (development or production)
• Turso account for SQLite database
• Upstash Redis account
• Cloudflare Turnstile account

Environment Variables

Copy .env.template to .env and fill in the variables.

Amazon Lambda && SES

Follow these instructions

Turso + Drizzle

Turso is basically free and Drizzle is superior to prisma.

• Create a turso.tech db, copy and paste token and url to .env.
• Run npx drizzle-kit generate and npx drizzle-kit migrate to save database

Running locally

1. Clone the repository
2. Follow previous instructions for setup.
3. Run npm i --peer-legacy-deps
4. Run npm run dev and visit on localhost:3000

Note: localhost doesn't support receiving emails, you will need a public url on the internet to do so.

Contributions

This repo will accept bug fixes and feature requests as PRs.