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Re:Show HN: Avec – iOS email app that lets you handle your G... by raffaeleg on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @04:10PM (#47784558)
Rapid inbox management is a real gap, especially for founders who live in email. We went the opposite direction with empla.io, AI agents that act inside Gmail so you do not need a new client. There is clearly room for both. What convinced you to build a native client rather than an extension or an MCP server on top of Gmail? Distribution is usually the piece that kills standalone email apps.
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Re:Show HN: Avec – iOS email app that lets you handle your G... by jnnnthnn on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @04:58PM (#47785132)
Our opinion is that you need to rethink the UI from the ground up, which isn't a tractable proposition through an extension or an MCP server :)
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