This is pretty cool. You could apply this to so many things, like automating procurement managers, fulfillment agents, or customer support for e-commerce.
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
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 pic…
You should just bootstrap if you're so confident. Honestly I'm not sure this idea is that great, but hey I am happy to be wrong. It is all right though.
FWIW I'm also not the type of person who would get VC backing (not an Ivy grad, not some hot shot Kumon kid who also got a Olympics gold medal while doing heart surgery when I was 15, etc.), but I managed to save up 500k working in tech for 10 years. You can do a lot with 200k. You can do plenty with 500k.
Once you have traction, you can either take out a calculated loan or just grow organically if you're not able to get VC money. And with VC money comes a lot of obligations, so you may have to compromise and end up losing big in the end if things don't work out.
Honestly, people should just work in tech for like 5-10 years and get like 1M+ retirement fund and maybe 200-500k cash they can use for their business.
The best thing you could do in 2026 is to build your dream solo, and actually prove to VCs that it is possible for a single person to build a $1B business. And by prove, I mean that you would never need their money because you actually build something meaningful that solves problems for real people. Life is better when you mute all these FOMO-mongers and focus.
Ignore the noise, and don't hold grudges. Just be 100% selfish and feel zero remorse. You get one shot at life, so give it your best.
I live in a studio apartment and I'm earning 4% on my savings, 15% on my retirement, 170% on my meme stock portfolio, and 15-25% on my tech max stocks. Basically if you want to do something crazy, you have to take a risk and not give a fuck about other people and what they're doing. Optimize ONLY for YOURSELF.
Care only for the customer. Ignore everyone else, who gives a fuck. They can figure it out for themselves, not your problem.
Re: Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
#163If you know agents email address, it can still be Prompt Injected.. what prevention exists there ?
we have a few things in place, allowlists and permissions act as a layer. also beginning some work on prompt isolation within api soon. but having an isolated identity + data within a separate agentic inbox also puts less risk of your personal email data being injected - which is most people's main concern
Where do you configure the allowlists?
Re: Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
#164The idea here is great and I think it has a lot of legs but I think inherently people will have initial concerns with security.
Do you have plans to only allow reading mail from specific senders, and giving fine-grained control on the API side?
I would like to give this to an AI agent but only initially where I and my team can forward mail to the agent, and not give it the ability to draft and send emails on its own.
Re: Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
#165This is fantastic! I created a GMAIL for my Clawdbot and Google deleted the account after an hour.
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#166The 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.
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Re: Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 pic…
You should just bootstrap if you're so confident. Honestly I'm not sure this idea is that great, but hey I am happy to be wrong. It is all right though. FWIW I'm also not the type of person who would get VC backing (not an Ivy grad, not some hot shot Kumon kid who also got a Olympics gold medal while doing heart surgery when I was 15, etc.), but I managed to save up 500k working in tech for 10 years. You can do a lot…
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#168The 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 around TV shows feels gone with TikTok/YT. I am 99% certain I could reach parity in a weekend by publishing content on public networks, without the old distribution or pricing constraints. I think it would all run on infrastructure that is effectively free to use. I am not certain I have the bandwidth to handle distribution, sustained attention, and moderation once the content starts flowing.
My friends are circulating our own Grok videos (6-10 seconds) of memes and parodies.
We are re-making entire scenes from movies with our desired dialog and endings.
Re: Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
#169The 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.
We're going to collapse society with this style of thinking, particularly since it can now escape out into the realm of non-technical folks. Death of true understanding because everyone feels entitled to paying the lowest perceived monetary cost possible for everything in their lives.
Society in large part, and civilization for the most part, collapsed generations ago.
The mental torque of a teenager today is so weak that they cannot answer four WHY? questions in a row without a panic attack.
Re: Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
#170"Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading www.agentmail.to (see the browser console for more information)." > Looks at developer console... - "Failed to create WebGL context: WebGL is currently disabled." Dafuq does an email website need WebGL for? - "Cookie “dmn_chk_xxxxxxxx-yyyy-dead-beef-123456789ABC” has been rejected for invalid domain." Let me guess...vibe-coded?
The website is really bad. If one moves from Python to curl in the website, one really sees how much noticable lag there is. Like holy Cow, I am not sure what to say seeing such noticable lag The time to go from python to curl. I have seen websites load faster, heck I feel like even 2-3 whole websites can actually be loaded in the noticable lag time we observe. Absolutely crazy to witness.
I have a strong guess on how that website was coded....