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I'm building a new AI-powered email client called Fluxmail: https://fluxmail.ai

Here is the current list of features:

- Unified inbox: Connect multiple Gmail accounts and see all your emails in one inbox. No more switching between different tabs or accounts.

- Email bundles: Automatically group your emails together into bundles, so if you have many emails from the same sender, they'll no longer clutter up your inbox.

- Email summarization: Save time by getting summaries of your email threads.

- Keyboard shortcuts: Navigate through your inbox using Gmail-style keyboard shortcuts.

- Automatic dark mode: All your emails are converted to dark mode automatically.

- Block email trackers: We detect and block email trackers to protect your privacy.

- Privacy-first: We sync your emails from Gmail and cache them locally on your device - they are not stored on our servers. We don't train on your data or use AI providers that train on your data.

Lots of other features coming soon, like split inbox, AI search, etc. It's in early access now, would love feedback from anyone interested in checking it out!

I'm also curious to hear - what is the most annoying thing about email that you have to deal with today?


I'm building a new email client called Fluxmail: https://fluxmail.ai

You can connect a bunch of Gmail accounts with it and see all your emails together in one place. It also has some features to better organize your emails and automatically categorize them, as well as some AI features for helping you to draft emails.

It's in early access now, would love feedback from anyone interested in checking it out!


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https://fluxmail.ai

It's an AI-native email client. Launching soon!

My goal is to help people get done with email faster, so that they can get back to doing other stuff. A lot of the features are designed around this goal: unified inbox, AI summarization, AI email drafting, etc.

Some of these are table stakes but I think there's also an opportunity to significantly revamp how email is done in the AI age. Imagine having your own personal assistant that goes through your email and surfaces the highest priority things that you need to know automatically.


I was evaluating local storage solutions a while back and I tried setting up PGlite, but unfortunately I couldn't get it to work in Next.js with Turbopack in a web worker.

I've been using SQLite locally instead with wa-sqlite and it's been working great for my use case so far. It's also more lightweight.


How are you measuring "lightweight" here, what do you mean by it?

(Not doubting your claim this just seems one of those words that means many different things depending on the context.)


Primarily bundle size. Pglite is a 3 MB binary, SQLite is <1 MB.


I'm working on https://www.fluxmail.ai, a modern, AI-powered email client.

I think there's a lot of potential for AI to improve the way we organize and manage our inboxes, while still letting us keep control over it.

What I've learned is that there are a lot of little features that make up a good email client that you may not even think about when using one, like threading, quote blocks, even what email address(es) to autofill when you reply to an email. For an app you use potentially for hours a day, the polish and "last 20%" makes a huge difference - and takes a while to build!

If you have any feedback, especially on what features are most important to you in an email app, I'd love to hear it :)


Disclaimer: I'm making presumptions, since I haven't used the service. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I don't like the idea of a centralized system to flow all of my email accounts through. I think this would work better as a localized agent that runs against my account (more like an email reviewing system vs a centralized email monitor). That would be less of a privacy concern, in my opinion.


I'm working on 2 projects right now:

1. Fluxmail - https://fluxmail.ai

Fluxmail is an AI-powered email app that helps you get done with email faster. There are a couple of core tenets/features that it has, including:

- local-first - we don't store your emails and we make interactions as fast as possible

- unified inbox - so you can view emails from all your email addresses in one place

- AI-native - helping you draft emails, search for emails, and read through your emails faster

I'd love to hear if these features resonate with you, or if there are other features that you feel are missing from your current email app.

2. ExploreJobs.ai - https://explorejobs.ai

This is a job board for AI jobs and companies. The job market in AI is pretty hot right now, and there are a lot of cool AI companies out there. I'm hoping to connect job seekers with fast-growing AI companies.


I'm working on 2 projects right now:

1. Fluxmail - https://fluxmail.ai

Fluxmail is an AI-powered email app that helps you get done with email faster. I think there's a significant opportunity for AI to change the way we use email, and I'm experimenting with ways to improve the status quo. I'd love to hear what features you'd like to see in such an app!

2. ExploreJobs.ai - https://explorejobs.ai

This is a job board for AI jobs and companies. The job market in AI is pretty hot right now, and there are a lot of cool AI companies out there. I'm hoping to connect job seekers with fast-growing AI companies.


https://notabase.io - a note-taking app for networked thinking.

It supports page stacking, linked references, block references, a graph view, and all that good stuff. Think of it as similar to Roam Research / Obsidian.

It's also open source so you can self-host it. Here's the code: https://github.com/churichard/notabase

I'm hoping to add support for shareable links soon. Open to other ideas or feedback!


Going to check this out for sure, Obsidian is frustrating to me with some of its quirks.


When evaluating rich text editors for the note-taking app I started about a year ago (https://notabase.io), I ended up going with Slate because of its flexible schema and customizable plugin architecture.

I sort of regret that choice now. I ran into a lot of bugs when integrating it which I had to manually work around; issues go months without being addressed; and there still isn't good cross-platform support, especially for Android. With a more active contributor base, Slate could be a fantastic library, but I get the feeling that it's in maintenance mode now, with not many major changes in the past year and a v1.0 still far in the future.

Tiptap looks like it might be a good choice now, but I find it off-putting that I can't insert links in the demo editor on Tiptap's website (https://tiptap.dev), especially for my use case (a note-taking app whose core concept revolves around links).


There's a demo for links here https://tiptap.dev/api/marks/link


I'm working on an open source note-taking app called Notabase [1].

It's built primarily for my use - I just never liked most existing note-taking apps and wanted to make one that's easy to use and fit the way that I think. I made it open source [2] so other people can build on top of my ideas, and released a hosted version so that other people can use it if they like it.

It would be nice if other people found it helpful, but regardless it's something that I intrinsically enjoy working on.

[1]: https://notabase.io

[2]: https://github.com/churichard/notabase


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