This is really cool - I think desktop tools, like native apps, CLIs, self-hosted tools, etc., have a lot of potential for innovation since they can be consumed by agents and the user can maintain more privacy, while also using their preferred agents and not being locked into a specific one.
Thanks! I'm planning on supporting a granular permission system, so per account you should be able to customize which tools it should be able to use (e.g. readonly, read+write including drafts (but no send), or full access).
You should be able to customize the permissions per API key as well, so if there's a case where you want to write or send something just one time then you can just swap in the API key and do that and swap back if you want to.
There will also be a dashboard (in addition to the CLI) so that you can easily audit everything that has happened in the system.
The main reason is because I wanted a privacy-preserving way to access my email without using ChatGPT or Claude or another hosted email connector. Also, this supports connecting multiple accounts, even multiple accounts from different email providers, with a unified API. And you can use it with any AI agent, even one you build yourself.
It supports Gmail API and IMAP/SMTP right now, with Outlook / Microsoft Graph coming soon.
I have qualms with Spotify as well, but not sure I entirely agree with the premise of the article. It still takes effort to find good music. There's a LOT of music being produced nowadays, and wading through all of that and finding niche stuff you like can still be a "hunt" - it's just a different kind.
I'm working on Fluxmail, an AI-native email app for people who get a lot of email. It has an AI agent, automatic prioritization and categorization, automatic follow-up reminders, drafting with AI, and a bunch of other stuff.
There's a couple of other ideas I'm integrating right now, like a kanban view for your emails
I'm working on an AI-native email client that organizes, prioritizes, and drafts emails for you.
The vision is for everyone to have an executive assistant that manages their email. It's built for people who spend hours in their inbox every week.
It has automatic prioritization, split inboxes, snippets, bundles, automatic follow-up reminders, and an AI agent that can do stuff for you -- without deleting your emails.
If you've read this far, I'd encourage you to give it a try and let me know what you think!
I'm building a new AI-powered email client called Fluxmail: https://fluxmail.ai
Here is the current list of features:
- Unified inbox: Connect multiple Gmail accounts and see all your emails in one inbox. No more switching between different tabs or accounts.
- Email bundles: Automatically group your emails together into bundles, so if you have many emails from the same sender, they'll no longer clutter up your inbox.
- Email summarization: Save time by getting summaries of your email threads.
- Keyboard shortcuts: Navigate through your inbox using Gmail-style keyboard shortcuts.
- Automatic dark mode: All your emails are converted to dark mode automatically.
- Block email trackers: We detect and block email trackers to protect your privacy.
- Privacy-first: We sync your emails from Gmail and cache them locally on your device - they are not stored on our servers. We don't train on your data or use AI providers that train on your data.
Lots of other features coming soon, like split inbox, AI search, etc. It's in early access now, would love feedback from anyone interested in checking it out!
I'm also curious to hear - what is the most annoying thing about email that you have to deal with today?
You can connect a bunch of Gmail accounts with it and see all your emails together in one place. It also has some features to better organize your emails and automatically categorize them, as well as some AI features for helping you to draft emails.
It's in early access now, would love feedback from anyone interested in checking it out!
My goal is to help people get done with email faster, so that they can get back to doing other stuff. A lot of the features are designed around this goal: unified inbox, AI summarization, AI email drafting, etc.
Some of these are table stakes but I think there's also an opportunity to significantly revamp how email is done in the AI age. Imagine having your own personal assistant that goes through your email and surfaces the highest priority things that you need to know automatically.
I was evaluating local storage solutions a while back and I tried setting up PGlite, but unfortunately I couldn't get it to work in Next.js with Turbopack in a web worker.
I've been using SQLite locally instead with wa-sqlite and it's been working great for my use case so far. It's also more lightweight.
I think there's a lot of potential for AI to improve the way we organize and manage our inboxes, while still letting us keep control over it.
What I've learned is that there are a lot of little features that make up a good email client that you may not even think about when using one, like threading, quote blocks, even what email address(es) to autofill when you reply to an email. For an app you use potentially for hours a day, the polish and "last 20%" makes a huge difference - and takes a while to build!
If you have any feedback, especially on what features are most important to you in an email app, I'd love to hear it :)
This is a job board for AI jobs and companies. The job market in AI is pretty hot right now, and there are a lot of cool AI companies out there. I'm hoping to connect job seekers with fast-growing AI companies.