Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

It consists of a MCP server, a CLI, and a REST API. Everything is run and hosted locally on your computer. You can use the MCP server to give your AI agents access to email, use the CLI to interact with your email, or build your own email apps on top of the REST API.

The goal is to make it simple and easy to interact with your email through any interface you choose, and to give you control over the way that you use your email.

It supports Gmail, Outlook, and IMAP/SMTP. Give it a try and let me know what you think!

It’s an open source attempt at making GUI automation reliable enough for things like EHRs, ERPs, Citrix apps, etc.

A lot of agent approaches basically keep looking at the screen and asking a model what to do next. We’ve gone in a different direction. We use models to learn or repair a workflow, but once it works we try to compile it down into something deterministic. On a normal run there can be zero model calls.

Lately I’ve been working on figuring out how to know that an action actually had the intended effect, rather than just that the click/keystroke happened. So workflows have preconditions, postconditions/evidence checks, and halt if the state is ambiguous. We also recently added a way to send those halted decisions to a phone for a human to approve/reject.

So I'm building an app a week and focusing on solving niche problems I've experienced in my own life to start

I think it's never been easier to build prototypes, but because of all of the slop, building community and finding users around them are harder than ever before

This latter part I think is going to be the hardest part of going out on my own

But going to try

Things I'm working on right now:

https://a2ciple.pt/ - testing prep for a language exam required for residency & citizenship in Portugal

https://basehub.org/ - a docs site for agents to get the latest context on Base, an Ethereum L2

https://playgokab.com/ - a vocab game to learn words in diff languages

https://mru.space/ - a protocol to run software that gracefully degrades across failing hardware

https://shiponeshot.com/ - a framework to help me ship prototypes more quickly

Anyhow, cheers :)