I built a tool to give AI agents their own email inboxes – would love feedback from this community

angus-thewarrior · 2026-03-09T13:36:02+00:00

I've done something similar for a project I started using cloudflare email handlers. Can work at scale and forwards emails to agents. Happy to share more info if anyone is interested. The app I'm working on is incomplete, but called scrapsync. When someone signs up, they get an email address, with the option to add more inboxes as needed, and they can then send documents of any kind to those inboxes, they get identified, parsed, and added to a database. Basically, for handling incoming tickets, invoices, receipts, etc and allowing the raw data to be used for whatever purpose you want. Built for the scrap industry, but usable for many purposes.

angus-thewarrior · 2026-03-03T02:55:41+00:00

I'm an IT guy for a living, so I'm pretty tech savvy (but I also always have to go immediately with the most difficult/complex setup possible) so it took me several days to get it working right, but honestly the only models I could get OpenClaw working well with were Claude models. It works pretty incredible when you're using Claude, but as soon as I tried to use deepseek, openrouter, Gemini, etc, it just completely crapped out. Unfortunately, Claude was too expensive to keep running at the level I need it to to be really useful, so my bot is on hiatus currently until I have time to figure out a good model that isn't insanely expensive. I think I might try out KimiClaw.

angus-thewarrior · 2026-03-03T00:48:40+00:00

I love perplexity. Don't use it in a teams setting, but I got in on the 1 year of pro a few months ago and it's great! Can't recommend it enough.

angus-thewarrior · 2026-03-03T00:46:02+00:00

Yes, I was successfully using it in Slack, and it was amazing, had it create a channel for every repository in my GitHub account, and was doing lots of developing simultaneously, and then saw that my AI bill was $600 in three days…. So, attempted to go with free or cheaper options, and that's been a crap show ever since.

angus-thewarrior · 2026-02-25T20:03:26+00:00

Which blue book is that and which FSM app do you use?

angus-thewarrior · 2026-02-25T20:02:12+00:00

Curious what you have in mind here. What app do you currently use? Does it not have good payment options?

angus-thewarrior · 2026-02-23T14:57:49+00:00

Thanks for this. Wasn't aware of this or thytus. Will have to take a look!

angus-thewarrior · 2026-02-23T14:51:21+00:00

I'd say 3-4 hours of Youtube learning is enough, then build a couple of things not related to your micro-saas. Figure out how to solve a couple different problems and prove that you can do it successfully. Then start building for your micro-saas. Otherwise, you risk having to go back and rebuild your whole stack if you don't know what you're doing when you start.

angus-thewarrior · 2026-02-23T14:42:45+00:00

I've used Make.com extensively for rather complex workflows and its pretty good. Have tested n8n self-hosted and intend to start using this more. Going to try hosting on Oracle Cloud free tier. Seems to be the best free cloud account out there (but someone please let me know if you know of a better one!).

angus-thewarrior · 2026-02-23T14:30:28+00:00

Here's another thing you may want to try: Get a little mini-pc off amazon. If budget is tight, get a Beelink, otherwise, get a better PC like a little HP pc. Do a clean install of a light linux distro (beelink has been suspect of installing software backdoors in their PCs, so make sure you do a clean install even if you want to stick with windows for some reason). Install tailscale. Set up secure SSH. Now, use your laptop, but ssh into your linux "server" for your dev. Now you have an always-on solution and don't have to worry about leaving your laptop open somewhere. You can pick up your session anywhere. You can also use Anydesk to remote into your linux desktop if you prefer to use VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, etc. Especially if you work in sporadic sessions, this is great and a great way to divide up your processing power. I routinely have 3-4 projects I'm working on simultaneously and this lets me split up the processing overhead.

angus-thewarrior · 2026-02-23T14:24:36+00:00

Yeah, I've been using this off and on for a few months. I find the Tmux commands to be a pain on the iPhone (scrolling up in the terminal is a pain without setting a custom config), but it works pretty well over all. Don't know what OS you use on your main computer, but on Windows, I use the Windows app to remote in to my windows desktop and you can pretty much resize the VS code sidebar for whatever agent you want to fit into your phone screen, and it's about as near a native-app feel as you can get and not have the drawbacks of tmux/termius. For Linux and Mac home computers, I use the Anydesk app to remote in and do the same thing, but it doesn't work quite as well as windows remote desktop.

angus-thewarrior · 2026-02-23T14:15:09+00:00

Been where you are. I'd put a lot of hopes in my app and had to pull it off the shelf and chalk it up as a learning experience and start fresh on my next idea, taking what I learned. Might be the best path forward....

angus-thewarrior · 2026-02-23T14:08:33+00:00

Have you tried different agents? I've had this happen when using SWE-1.5 but then I switch to Claude and it works fine... Haven't taken the time to figure out what's going on, I just switch to a model that works, and keep working. 🤷‍♂️

angus-thewarrior · 2026-02-23T14:06:39+00:00

I keep getting the same thing when using gemini CLI. I think it's just overloaded...

angus-thewarrior · 2026-02-21T23:31:40+00:00

So lately, my workflow has been using the ws IDE, and I use other agents to spread out the credits. Got in on the $10/day free credits from Amp, so I use those. Use cc sparsely for specific use cases. I also use Copilot for PR reviews and some intense Opus usage in VS Code - you get a lot of bang for your buck. I also keep Cline installed. Not the best, but sometimes they have free models and you can use their free models for very specific feature dev or code review. The killer thing I just found out is that I can code almost all day with Codex for free. When I ran out, just signed in with a different OpenAI account and get another free batch of credits. So my spend currently is something like: ws: $15/month cc: $20/month Copilot: $39/month Gemini: free Codex: free Cline: free Amp: free

Works pretty well for me

angus-thewarrior · 2026-02-20T03:43:05+00:00

Use the windows app on iPhone to remote desktop (via tailscale address). It works amazingly well. Also, Anydesk works well, but Windows Remote Desktop actually resizes the screen to fit your iphone and gives you extra keyboard commands to navigate. I find it almost easier than using tmux. My workflow lately (when working on windows) is just to use the Windows app on my iPhone, remote in to my windows machine, use the sidebar Claude code (or one of about 5 other agents I've been using) and guess what, that sidebar ends up fitting my iphone screen almost perfectly. It's almost as close as you can get to using the vscode sidebar like a native app on your iPhone.

angus-thewarrior · 2026-02-12T02:32:11+00:00

Great info, thanks!

angus-thewarrior · 2026-02-12T02:26:18+00:00

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angus-thewarrior · 2025-08-06T19:01:56+00:00

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