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Show HN: Avec – iOS email app that lets you handle your Gmail inbox in seconds
Hi HN!<p>A few friends & I have just spent the past ~2 years building a new kind of email app for iOS. It's now available in GA and we think some of you might find it interesting.<p>Why another email app, you ask? We think that while many interesting attempts at one-upping Gmail were made in the past 25 years, no one could really solve the core problem we all experience with email: information overload.<p>Of course, LLMs have completely changed that, as they finally offer a path to do refined triage of your inbox. However, as anyone who's tried the AI features most email apps offer nowadays, they feel tacked-on and rarely are useful.<p>That is why this took us ~2 years: we rebuilt an email app from the ground up, thinking about where we could thoughtfully and usefully leverage LLMs. Some of our faves:<p>- AI-based prioritization<p>- Voice-based email drafting that takes a few words from you and embellishes them into a polished email<p>- Very actionable, to-the-point notifications that don't force you to open the app to know what's up<p>Ultimately, while we tried hard to make a really great app, our goal is for you to spend as little time in it as possible. Ergo our tagline: we'd like to let you handle your inbox in seconds and get back to your life.<p>You can download it on the App Store at <a href="https://avec.ai/download" rel="nofollow">https://avec.ai/download</a> (US & Canada), or on TestFlight at <a href="https://avec.ai/testflight" rel="nofollow">https://avec.ai/testflight</a> in the rest of the world. You need a Gmail/Google Workspace account to try it out, and should you just be curious to kick the tires without committing, you'll be able to delete your account (& all associated data) directly within the app.<p>Don’t want to download anything? Check out our website at <a href="https://avec.ai" rel="nofollow">https://avec.ai</a> for a walkthrough :)<p>Some things of potential interest to HN readers:<p>- It is not local-first. We run a complex pipeline to process emails on our servers, as in our experience local models that can run on an iPhone are not yet good enough to support our core features.<p>- We use a variety of LLM vendors. One thing we've found is that no model is a magic bullet. Some features (like voice-based drafting) require extremely low latency, which others (like personalization) require the smartest model available. We end up having to stitch a lot of these together through trial and error.<p>- It is not yet available on Android, but we hope to release an Android version in the future :)<p>We'd love to hear folks' feedback and questions!
Avec enters a massive but notoriously difficult market with a well-executed AI-native approach to email. While the technical implementation of multi-LLM orchestration is impressive, the startup faces extreme competition from incumbents like Google and Apple who are integrating similar features natively, creating a significant long-term defensibility challenge.