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Show HN: Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in the background

61 points · 37 comments · jd_

  1. htrp · · focus · HN ↗
    why not an actual inbox? set up a gmail and have the agent email you?
    1. jd_ · · focus · HN ↗
      @aaronax had a similar thought!

      In our case, we wanted to borrow the UX of email (to be intuitive to knowledge workers) but not necessarily the implementation.

      Full control of your data was a design principle from the beginning, including being able to run fully offline with local models, so we didn’t want to add a dependency on email.

      With that said, you can certainly hook up an MCP server and have the agents read and send emails (with human-in-the-loop approval) on your behalf.

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