Hey HN, I built Emailbottle because I wanted AI help with my email without giving an app full access to my inbox. You get a personal email address (like yourname.assistant@emailbottle.com). Forward an email to it with an instruction like “summarize this” or “pull out the action items,” and it replies. You can also ask it to create calendar events (it sends back .ics files), set reminders (it emails you at the scheduled time), or draft replies.
Since it’s just email, it works with Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, or whatever you use. No plugins, no extensions, no OAuth permissions. And because you forward individual emails rather than connecting your inbox, Emailbottle only ever sees what you explicitly send it. It also supports conversation threads. You can reply to Emailbottle’s response to ask follow-up questions or refine what it gave you, and it remembers the context.
Would love any feedback on the product or the approach.
(Disclaimer: This is a relaunch with improvements based on earlier feedback.)
by gspr ·
While I'll set out the criteria for what I'm looking for, I don't want this to turn into a general debate about the role of LLMs in software development. That discussion is important, but we have plenty of them. Consider everything that follows as personal a taste as ice cream flavor.
Is there a lightweight, simple toolset for having local LLMs (preferably through llama.cpp) inspect and critique code without relying on IDE integration? I do not want an LLM to write any code for me, but I have definitely warmed to the idea of having them critique and assist in debugging. I'm a bit of a simpleton who prefers not to integrate too many things with my editor, so I'd like something that behaves kind of like a REPL; some commands to load source files from a directory and present those to the LLM (through llama.cpp?), and then some functions to interact with the LLM with said code in context. With simple convenience functions that let me save state, refresh updated code, etc.
I'd prefer if this didn't all go through the web browser.
Does anyone know of such tooling?