MailPilot
Dev tools
agent remote control
SHOW HN2026
34points
44comments
#1,533of 4,366 in 2026
Top 36%of 2026 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 12 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.43.
Privacy: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 1 for, 3 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Email as a lightweight way to check agents from a phone.
From 2 comments
I do a very similar thing but clunkier with Tailscale, ssh, zellij. Can ssh in from my phone too with Termux. But email sounds better - then I can actually get notified when it…
resonious on HNThis is a great setup. I was building agents in 2023 with email addresses, and it was very effective for onboarding tech laggards to generative AI. It also resulted in very low…
reality_inspctr on HN
Useful async workflow for separating from the desk.
From 2 comments
I have claude code hooks that send local computer notifications when action is required or processing finished. And when I step away from computer, I get those notifications…
Jnr on HNNice. Would be great to have this on Slack or Whatsapp
nico on HN
Objections
Privacy: emails are not end-to-end encrypted and the privacy policy was copied from another product.
From 5 comments
Are the emails end to end encrypted (PGP or S/MIME where you/your server don't have the keys) or just in transit (TLS)? That would make the difference between "we can't look at…
mzajc on HNGood to call out use of semi-technical weasel words. Their privacy policy is far from GDPR compliant. In a legal sense, they do not respect data privacy rights of their customers…
bflesch on HNI have not reviewed privacy. Copied it from another of my products. I will take a look. It's a paid product, you are not the product. We have 0 interest in the content of your…
keepamovin on HNConsidering emails are as private as postcards, I don't know how I could rely on such service to prompt anything even remotely sensitive.
derelicta on HNJust like regular email in that sense. We don't do any encryption beyond standard HTTPS and we don't look at the data. It's a paid service, you're not the product.
keepamovin on HN
Price of $12/mo seems steep for what it does.
From 2 comments
I do a very similar thing but clunkier with Tailscale, ssh, zellij. Can ssh in from my phone too with Termux. But email sounds better - then I can actually get notified when it…
resonious on HNIt is pretty light. Maybe the pricing is wrong, idk. Early days so just figuring things out. The email advantage is as you say -- I always found Terminal on phones very taxing on…
keepamovin on HN
Name clashes with an existing Mac email client, Mail Pilot.
From 2 comments
Oh, this isn’t the popular Mac email client, Mail Pilot (https://www.mailpilot.app/)? I’m sure that won’t confuse anyone. Everyone, please, google your proposed product names…
kstrauser on HNAnother good idea is to check a trademark DB, because "Mail Pilot" is actually a registered trademark of Mindsense LLC.
fxtentacle on HN
Requests
Support for Slack or WhatsApp.
From 1 comment
Nice. Would be great to have this on Slack or Whatsapp
nico on HN
Attachment support.
From 2 comments
This is a great setup. I was building agents in 2023 with email addresses, and it was very effective for onboarding tech laggards to generative AI. It also resulted in very low…
reality_inspctr on HNI haven’t done attachments yet, but that could be useful. I think to really make this work You really have to know what you’re doing with your tasks and your agents because you…
keepamovin on HN
Questions
Are emails end-to-end encrypted?
From 1 comment
Are the emails end to end encrypted (PGP or S/MIME where you/your server don't have the keys) or just in transit (TLS)? That would make the difference between "we can't look at…
mzajc on HN
Why email instead of SMS or a web dashboard?
From 1 comment
This is such low hanging fruit. Coding agents can be orchestrated. Controlled, rerun, and tested. Are we just coming up with ways to not be at our desks working? Why not scale…
reactordev on HN
Alternatives named
SSH or tmux from phone, Tailscale, Termux, Termius.
From 2 comments
I do a very similar thing but clunkier with Tailscale, ssh, zellij. Can ssh in from my phone too with Termux. But email sounds better - then I can actually get notified when it…
resonious on HNI have claude code hooks that send local computer notifications when action is required or processing finished. And when I step away from computer, I get those notifications…
Jnr on HN
clawdbot messaging bridge.
From 1 comment
No affiliation and didn't get around to use it yet, but clawdbot[1] does WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Signal, iMessage, Microsoft Teams, and WebChat. [1]:…
heyalexej on HN
Slack MCP for Claude Code.
From 1 comment
I wrote an mcp for claude code to talk to you (and receive messages back) over slack, though it has the caveat of being unable to initiate a session. It was pretty easy to do…
hrimfaxi on HN
runagentos open-source project.
From 1 comment
Really cool! Started something in the same area as well that is fully open source: www.runagentos.com
saadn92 on HN