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

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Post by tuckerman »

I was previously considering building in this space but the infra around sending /receiving email for lots of addresses seemed like a major pain before getting to anything properly exciting, excited to see this! Would also encourage you to build good local dev/testing infra, dealing with email gets messy.

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.

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

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Post by Haakam21 »

tuckerman wrote: post #31

I was previously considering building in this space but the infra around sending /receiving email for lots of addresses seemed like a major pain before getting to anything properly exciting, excited to see this! Would also encourage you to build good local dev/testing infra, dealing with email gets messy. I believe truly useful AI assistants will use the same tools that humans prefer to use, rather than forcing us to…

It has been a journey, in fact even harder than we were expecting. But can say it was well worth it after seeing the unlock for devs building in the email space.

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

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Post by mhykim »

nextworddev wrote: post #26

I have been using Gmail connector for Deep Research in ChatGPT and it works like a charm. For sending emails, I have been using Gmail MCPs

MCP's are great as another communication medium with these agents(we have an MCP server as well!)

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!

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

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Post by adisingh13 »

DalasNoin wrote: post #34
mtmail wrote: post #4

Is the '10.000.000+ emails processed' all from alpha/beta testers?

Imagine the amount of spam this generates

Fair concern but that comes with any email product. We're a provider not a mass sending API like Resend, Mailgun, Sendgrid - that means our use cases primarily revolve around personalized, two-way conversations between reasoning agents and humans.

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

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Post by adisingh13 »

sauwan wrote: post #24

This is perfect timing for me - was just thinking about how to do this. But pricing is a bit steep for a startup currently looking to prove the market. Would you consider a cheaper option (e.g. 1 free inbox, or maybe $20/mo for 5 agent inboxes and a more limited storage level)? I'm building something that I might consider this for, but I don't know how long my runway is before I get sustainable client revenue, so $10…

Thanks for the input sauwan - it means a lot. We're early, so this is by design. We have a generous free tier coming soon!

For now you can also use our playground at chat.agentmail.to

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

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Post by tonyhschu »

loremm wrote: post #20

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 satis…

That workflow sounds amazing. How do you set that up? Got any code for it that we can look at?
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