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Once vendors are getting AI spam sent to 1,000 of them and their competitors, they will stop responding and find other sales channels. This won't be sustainable.
Unless they have agents reading those emails and responding ...
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Thats why we built it :) We have an integration with n8n, will build one for Glean
and a request for gumloop. (a YC alum) https://docs.gumloop.com/
adi@agentmail.cc
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Just trying to provide you some helpful feedback. This reply comes off pretty rude, bitter, and immature. Probably not the look you want if you're trying to get funding.
Or we could just accept reality that there is no moat around this kind of stuff. This seems like an afternoon or weekend project to build, particularly with the promises made about how much more efficient coding is with AI tools now.
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#126I'm 100% for this, but I think you can go even more granular than "gives agents their own inboxes". Thanks to Action Mailbox in Rails[1], I give all my records email addresses. Eg let ecommerce "order" records accept forwarded emails that are pinned as comments. It opens you up for doing things like forwarding a purchase order and having the PO number pulled out and attached to an order, or forwarding tracking inform…
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#127Looked into this for my clawdbot, but ended up just using himalaya CLI connected to a new Gmail. Been working great so far - curious about what agentmail is better for
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#128The moat for SaaS is gone. I am 99% certain I could build to parity in a weekend using Cloudflare without the the pricing limitations. I am thinking it would be within the free tier of CF usage. I am not certain I have the bandwidth to communicate over delivery and plain text inspection concerns.
Re: Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
#129The moat for SaaS is gone. I am 99% certain I could build to parity in a weekend using Cloudflare without the the pricing limitations. I am thinking it would be within the free tier of CF usage. I am not certain I have the bandwidth to communicate over delivery and plain text inspection concerns.
Isn’t your comment just the “modern” take on the famous HN comment deriding Dropbox?
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#130The moat for SaaS is gone. I am 99% certain I could build to parity in a weekend using Cloudflare without the the pricing limitations. I am thinking it would be within the free tier of CF usage. I am not certain I have the bandwidth to communicate over delivery and plain text inspection concerns.
> The moat for SaaS is gone. What does this even mean? I could spend $1,000s on tokens asking an agent to build (some semblance of) Sentry, or New Relic, but why would I bother? I have real work to do in the near-term, and I'm happy to pay for services that help me do it.