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Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes

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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 ...

This is already happening. Also with AgentMail.

Re: Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes

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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/

i'd love to know more about how you use gumloop and how agentmail can fit in. mind shooting me an email?

adi@agentmail.cc

Re: Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes

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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.

Yeah, I largely agree. This might seem offensive, but I think this is kind of an obvious product, at least in retrospect. It's easy to implement, and provides no moat.

Re: Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes

#126

I'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…

That looks really interesting! Thanks for writing and sharing it!

Re: Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes

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Looked 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

We have had some users get banned from Gmail for using it Clawdbot. Regardless our API is way more agent friendly and I think your Clawdbot would agree.

Re: Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes

#128

The 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?

Re: Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes

#129

The 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?

For every dropbox that managed to build a business out of a feature, there are probably >1000 that didn't. But I guess this meme is a good way to kill off bad businesspeople.

Re: Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes

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The 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.

You don't tell agents to build this stuff from the ground up. Someone builds an open source tool, and you get your agents to deploy and customize it. The plumbing and groundwork is already laid, you're just detailing.
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