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We're building AgentMail (https:\u002F\u002Fagentmail.to\u002F), an API to give AI agents their own email inboxes. We’re not talking about AI for your email, this is email for your AI.\n\nWe started building email agents because they can converse with users in their inboxes, automate email-based workflows, and authenticate with third-party applications. 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We are solving the challenges of scaling email to thousands of agents per tenant.",{"value":64,"source":52,"evidence":65},"Usage-based pricing, with a $20\u002Fmonth tier released",[66,67],{"id":55},{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"44853191","mhykim","Hey sauwan, wanted to follow up here. We as of 2 days ago just released our $20\u002Fmonth tier! If you haven't reached out yet already, its live on our website: agentmail.to Let me…",{"value":72,"source":52,"evidence":73},"Building on Gmail was a struggle, so they built their own email layer for agents",[74],{"id":55},null,[],"unknown","launched","team",{"praise":81,"objections":101,"requests":139,"questions":161,"alternatives":183},[82,90],{"value":83,"source":84,"evidence":85},"Dashboard SDK example popovers are a strong UI idea","commenter",[86],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"44753892","primitivesuave","This is really interesting and I'm sure it has many useful applications - what I am most impressed by is the popovers in your dashboard, which show SDK examples. This is a…",{"value":91,"source":84,"evidence":92},"Email is a universal, durable channel worth building on",[93,97],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"44749517","farco12","This. I also think e-mail clients are a more natural interface for managing multiple async conversations\u002Ftasks with models\u002Fagents from different providers. There's also nothing…",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"44749435","adisingh13","Great question - we get this input a lot. It really depends, while I'm a big believer of voice and API-driven design in the future, I think email's role remains but looks…",[102,117,124],{"value":103,"source":84,"evidence":104},"Spam and abuse at scale could be a serious problem",[105,109,113],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"44751879","DalasNoin","Imagine the amount of spam this generates",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"44753865","mayas_","With this type of products, I feel like spamming nuisance will dramatically increase if mitigation doesn’t catch up",{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"44756668","AndroTux","Let me know how long that’ll last. The low limits of other providers are there for a reason. That reason’s called spam.",{"value":118,"source":84,"evidence":119},"Pricing is steep for early-stage startups",[120],{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"44750298","sauwan","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…",{"value":125,"source":84,"evidence":126},"Postmark and SES can already cover much of this",[127,131,135],{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"44795680","christoph123","Was thinking of building something similar, considering just using yours now, looks great! Postmark just made an open-source MCP server. I am using postmark already. Why would I…",{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"44749041","TZubiri","Dejavu What is the benefit of an AI email infra over using any other generic email api provider like SES, azure communication, sendgrid, mailchimp",{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"44753825","statictype","You can do this with SES on AWS or Mailgun. 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