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

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

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Post by gustrigos »

biddit wrote: post #47
gustrigos wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are using AgentMail for sourcing quotes here at scale with various top shippers. It’s not about letting the agent act in fully deterministic ways, it’s about setting up the right guardrails. The agents can now do most of the job, but when there’s low confidence on their output, we have human in the loop systems to act fast. At least in competitive industries like logistics, if you don’t leverage these types of wor…

Okay that makes sense. Do you see more pushback in specific industries? I did some quote/purchasing automation work in food mfg a decade ago, and those guys were super difficult to work with. Very opaque, guarded, old-school industry.

I've seen different industries. CPG, mfg, and others are very old school still. Logistics moves so fast. I think it's due to how frequent feedback loops are that puts pressure on players to adopt to new tools.

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

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Post by adisingh13 »

smoyer wrote: post #142

This is a pretty clear emergent pattern. An OSS alternative is https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agent_mail .

We know the founder of this pretty well actually. It's not really an alternative. They are an MCP that is building an email-like layer for coding agents to talk to each other. We are an actual email inbox provisioned via API for agents to email agents or humans.

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

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Post by adisingh13 »

pirsquare wrote: post #84

excellent idea, this will eventually be the SendGrid for email agents. Just automating 2FA alone is worth the gold. And there's tons of use cases. I have no doubt this will be huge.

thank you, this means a lot!

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

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Post by trollbridge »

iamacyborg wrote: post #85
trollbridge wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... you had to use Zapier to extract an email from an inbox?

Google API scopes for email are pretty restrictive, which is generally a good thing from a security perspective.

Retrieving e-mail using the Google API is just about trivial. You can generate a code snippet in Grok or what have you in about 30 seconds to do it.

Alternatively you can set up IMAP access.

Obviously you have to be able to configure proper OAuth2 keys to do this, but again, that's another 30 seconds spent in Grok/GPT/Claude/whatever.

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

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Post by charles_f »

> Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading www.agentmail.to (see the browser console for more information).

I would advise to have the landing page static, or at the very least as something that can't crash entirely.

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

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Post by keepamovin »

freedomben wrote: post #48
keepamovin wrote: post #40

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Sure, bud. Cut me in on your 500K! My Show from 14 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629191 - hmm, why didn't it get into YC?

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.

Thanks for sharing how you took it. I'm not sure how helpful that it for me here, as my goal is simply to express exactly how I feel, but it does tell me where you're at.

Here's where I'm at: I applied to YC 15 times, never once got a call back. I saw products I applied with later on become the pivot-intos for other teams. I don't think you captured the emotions that are there for me with the words you chose. I'd pick: angry, disappointed, unhappy with this kind of shady behavior.

The words you pick are more negative, and frame me as an angry, immature loser. If you're trying to be helpful, don't try to humilitate the person you're trying to help. I'm not immature and bitter, I'm facing that situation I described and having normal emotions about it, and expressing how I feel.

If you have a problem with that, where you feel you need to humiliate the person who expresses that, maybe that's something you need to examine in yourself.

Also - probably not the "look I want"? "The look" to get funding? It's an attitude/or appropach that sounds so fake, like bullshist. I'm much more into something that's real.

But anyway all of this, the experience, the emotions, even this interaction here, is singal and information to me, about what YC is and about what people think about it. "The Look" to get funding? Okay.

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

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Post by neumann »

charles_f wrote: post #148

> Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading www.agentmail.to (see the browser console for more information). I would advise to have the landing page static, or at the very least as something that can't crash entirely.

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