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Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents
We started building email agents because they can converse with users in their inboxes, automate email-based workflows, and authenticate with third-party applications. Given these unique capabilities, we think email will be a core interface for agents.
But we were building on top of Gmail, which was a struggle: poor API support, expensive subscriptions, rate limits, sending limits, GCP Pub/Sub, OAuth, crappy keyword search, and an overall terrible developer experience.
Gmail and other providers didn’t work for us. So we decided to bite the bullet and build our own.
AgentMail is like Gmail, but API-first, with programmatic inbox creation, events over webhooks and websockets, simple API key auth, organization-wide semantic search, structured data extraction, and usage-based pricing that scales with emails sent/received.
Here’s a demo of building an email agent: https://youtu.be/1V7BISeFUTM, and here’s a demo of a voice agent with its own email inbox: https://youtu.be/eG2fCsRK4RY
So far AgentMail has been deployed to use cases such as apps with dedicated inboxes for each user, voice agents that receive documents in real time, automated account provisioning and QA testing, cold outbound platforms with thousands of inboxes, automations for processing invoices, and agents that coordinate work with humans and other agents.
We would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. You can try our playground at https://chat.agentmail.to
I believe truly useful AI assistants will use the same tools that humans prefer to use, rather than forcing us to come to it (in the same way truly intelligent embodied AI would use the same spaces/stairs/tools/doors as humans). Email, despite all its warts, still runs a lot of the world.
Just wanted to flag in case it's a bug. Excited to try it once access opens up.
For now you can also use our playground at chat.agentmail.to
Super fast low latency very satisfying. Pubsub scales well and free :)
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sadly it never took off so it just became another abandoned side project
but still sometimes I use it ie do distill long emails or translate them without leaving the inbox - also the reminder and todo list feature is nice - whereby i mostly use the "remind me of this email next monday"
so my learnings for email agents: give them a sense of time and memory. its not only about that you write an email and send it but also when to write whom
I learned this the hard way when I was running a startup 15 years ago (we used sign in with Twitter and didn't required people give us their email address) and it's still true today.
Email is almost universal, mostly free from gatekeepers and is an incredibly effective way to keep your product relevant in a way that doesn't depend on your users remembering to visit your site or open your app.
There are people out there who don't use email, but they tend to not be people who spend serious money on the kind of products most startups are building.
There's also nothing stopping this product from expanding to other interfaces/modalities like voice or sms.
Congratulations on your launch.
[1] https://groups.io/email-provider-status [2] https://www.spikenow.com/features/conversational-email/
Can you please omit swipes like that from your HN comments? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Your post would be just fine without that bit!
For sending emails, I have been using Gmail MCPs
The problem we are primarily solving is the scale at which you can provision inboxes to these agents in the first place. With Gmail there comes a lot of hoops and hurdles(its built for human usage) with their APi.
So when it comes to orchestrating inboxes for thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of agents, thats where we would come in!
What is the benefit of an AI email infra over using any other generic email api provider like SES, azure communication, sendgrid, mailchimp
(I don’t think this compromises the value of AgentMail, just clarifying what is supported elsewhere.)