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Re: Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents

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Post by Haakam21 »

smpandya wrote: post #9

Why build with email now? Isn’t the world moving towards voice / live-chat paradigms?

Agree that interfaces are moving in this direction. But humans and agents will always need a way to send/receive messages and notification asynchronously. Email is the most universal channel and we think it is here to stay.

Re: Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents

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Post by adisingh13 »

smpandya wrote: post #9

Why build with email now? Isn’t the world moving towards voice / live-chat paradigms?

Great question - we get this input a lot. It really depends, while I'm a big believer of voice and API-driven design in the future, I think email's role remains but looks different. It's a sticky, universal protocol that serves as a great system of audit and record. Also think an agent is only as good as its context - an inbox serves almost as a personal gateway to the internet and early customer's use cases show different applications from agent-human connection to identity verification and authentication.

Re: Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents

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Post by alfalfasprout »

smpandya wrote: post #9

Why build with email now? Isn’t the world moving towards voice / live-chat paradigms?

What a silly take. Email has been around for ages and it will continue to be around in perpetuity. It's still the medium of choice for certain types of interactions where a documented paper trail is important and you eg; need escalation, further review, etc. It's still also the choice for many companies and individuals.

Re: Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents

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Post by farco12 »

Haakam21 wrote: post #11
smpandya wrote: post #9

Why build with email now? Isn’t the world moving towards voice / live-chat paradigms?

Agree that interfaces are moving in this direction. But humans and agents will always need a way to send/receive messages and notification asynchronously. Email is the most universal channel and we think it is here to stay.

This. I also think e-mail clients are a more natural interface for managing multiple async conversations/tasks with models/agents from different providers.

There's also nothing stopping this product from expanding to other interfaces/modalities like voice or sms.

Congratulations on your launch.

Re: Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents

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Post by dang »

alfalfasprout wrote: post #15
smpandya wrote: post #9

Why build with email now? Isn’t the world moving towards voice / live-chat paradigms?

What a silly take. Email has been around for ages and it will continue to be around in perpetuity. It's still the medium of choice for certain types of interactions where a documented paper trail is important and you eg; need escalation, further review, etc. It's still also the choice for many companies and individuals.

> What a silly take

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!

Re: Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents

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Post by loremm »

Keep in mind that default Gmail allows webhooks for any changes (email received but also changing labels, etc), for free using Gmail pubsub. I use it a lot because it's the only way of getting programmatic notifications from credit card purchases (turn on purchase alerts to all cards, send to Gmail, have a filter archive but capture the reception in webhooks. Parse with simple regex)

Super fast low latency very satisfying. Pubsub scales well and free :)

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