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Hey, HN!

I’m David, the founder of Scratchbox. We’re building a product to help you take control of your inbox and improve your email workflow. Scratchbox will connect directly to your personal or business Gmail account and allow you to create simple or complex rules to handle incoming email. These workflows can be connected to other communication tools you already use, like Slack, so you can choose how and when you get email.

Features in the works:

Send email to Slack, Send email to Facebook Messenger, Archive email, Forward email, Scheduled email digests, + more

We are really excited to be introducing Scratchbox, and would love to get your feedback.

We are fractured with frameworks, etc., but the underlying language (JS) and patterns are interoperable.

Its true that backend has had this since the dawn of time, but _not_ having that on the frontend allowed it flourish. I agree though that after a certain amount of time, only a few languages will live on.

I'm not sold that this is a good thing. Opening up the web to many languages will fracture the community. This is not good for newcomers looking for a place to start, as the landscape could be too vast.