An email-first AI automation tool - Launching on IH

Hello IndieHackers! 👋

After 8 weeks of intense building, we’re excited to share MXtoAI(visit mxtoai.com) with the community that inspired us to leave our high-paying tech jobs and build something of our own.

The Problem We’re Solving:

Everyone’s building email related AI agents to compose replies, clean up inboxes but the real time sink is processing what you receive.

At Airbnb, I watched ops teams burn hours daily parsing payment emails and updating systems. Same pattern everywhere - email is where work arrives, but automation stops at the inbox.

The manual grind we all know:

• Scheduling meetings from email requests
• Extracting data from invoices/documents
• Summarizing long newsletters
• Creating tickets in Jira/Linear from bug reports
• Updating CRM from customer emails

Our Solution: AI Agents accessible via Email Forwarding (for trying out the MVP)

Instead of inbox scanning or complex integrations, just forward emails to specialized agent:

📅 [email protected] → Meeting requests become calendar invites
💰 [email protected] → “How much do I owe?” extracts exact invoice amounts
📝 [email protected] → Long newsletters & attachments become summaries
🔍 [email protected] → Research people/companies mentioned
🌐 [email protected] → Instant translation to any language

Why this approach?:

✅ Privacy-first: We only see emails you explicitly forward
✅ Universal: Works with any email client (Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail)
✅ Zero setup: No OAuth, extensions, or app switching

Full use cases in our docs → https://docs.mxtoai.com/why-use-mxtoai

Special Offer for IndieHackers 🎉

First 10 makers who:

1. Whitelist their email at mxtoai.com
2. Forward 3+ different emails to try our agents
3. Share feedback here or via email

Get:

• 6 months FREE Pro ($120 value) when we launch paid tiers
• Priority access to custom aliases (define your own workflows)
• Direct input on our roadmap

What We Need From You?

Not looking for pats on the back - we need brutal honesty:

• Which email workflows waste most of your time?
• How’s our response quality/speed for your use cases?
• What integrations would make this 10x valuable? (Stripe, Notion, Linear, etc.)
• Any UX/security concerns with forwarding approach?

Quick tech details for nerds: Python, Dramatiq, RabbitMQ, Cloudflare Workers.

Early learnings after 500+ processed emails:

• People love the privacy aspect - they control exactly what we see
• Attachment processing (PDFs, images) is 40% of our usage - way more than expected
• Users want custom aliases badly (coming soon)
• Open-source core engine + self-hosted option for privacy concious users. We'll be opening up our core soon.

Looking forward to the feedback. Let’s build something useful together! 🚀