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elieskilled··on Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
One-click where it's possible. You can always auto archive emails for any sender (which we also offer with a single click).
elieskilled··on Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
Feel free to contribute to this :)

Will look to add local LLM support soon.

elieskilled··on Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
We plan to add this!
elieskilled··on Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
They offer an API. Most people use Gmail so most companies target this first.
elieskilled··on Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
Yes, atm it relies on Tinybird. But the level of trust you need for that is different. And the data in Tinybird is encrypted so even if you don't trust them to run a Clickhouse database, if you set an encryption key they won't be able to do much with your data. We are planning to support a version that doesn't rely on Tinybird at all but stores all data in your browser using indexeddb.
elieskilled··on Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
"It's gone through an extensive security review from Google's side to be allowed to use that API at a high volume."

Every app that has access to the Gmail API has been through this process including Inbox Zero. But I agree that you can have more trust in products that have been on the market for longer.

The safest way to run the app is to self-host but I agree that's a hassle for most to do.

elieskilled··on Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
Correct! :)
elieskilled··on Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
That's how it works. The default is to queue it for you for you to approve :)
elieskilled··on Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
Feel free to open an issue: https://www.getinboxzero.com/github Or feature request: https://www.getinboxzero.com/feature-requests

We can look to add it :)

elieskilled··on Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
It's used in the sense that you want to better manage your email and clear the noise.

But ultimately the purpose of the tool is to make you more effective at email. Spend less time organising and getting spammed.

elieskilled··on Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
He isn't involved. Or hold the trademark.
elieskilled··on Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
The project uses the ai npm package from Vercel which does interface with a lot of different LLMs. But I imagine there is a little work for it to just work with any provider.

I think it would be really cool to get it running with something like Mistral in the browser: https://webllm.mlc.ai/

elieskilled··on Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
Web LLM looks promising: https://webllm.mlc.ai/ And I hope we can offer this as an option with Mistral in the coming months.
elieskilled··on Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
Most apps target Gmail because most users use Gmail.

Supporting other email providers would be nice to have. It's open source so maybe someone else will contribute support for other emails before I get to it. It's not the first item on my roadmap. I'd like to perfect the current user experience.

elieskilled··on Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
Hope this clears it up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38820176
elieskilled··on Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
Hey,

Every testimonial is real.

Not every testimonial is from Twitter.

Yoni's is from WhatsApp. James' is from Facebook Messenger.

A bunch of the others are from the Product Hunt launch: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/inbox-zero-2

The images/names for some aren't for privacy reasons. Although they'd probably be okay with me replacing those with their real names/images too.

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