I’ve spent the last few years building chat apps, first on Beeper, including Beeper Mini, and then on Automattic. Most of my work has been on deep app engineering: native client, messaging surface, sync, reliability.
One thing I consistently found is that email still feels built for one person, even though a lot of the company’s work happens there. Support, Sales, Invoicing, Recruiting, Partnerships. It all lands in the inbox, but teams still share passwords, forward threads, or stick drafts in Slack when they want someone else to review a reply.
So I quit my job and started much better apps With a friend who has spent years building and operating infrastructure. banger This is the first thing we’re building.
The basic idea is shared emails with built-in reviews. You can have a shared mailbox, real permissions instead of a shared login, and a way to put emails through for review before sending. This could be for a teammate’s draft, or for something written by an AI agent. The closest analogy is probably a pull request, but for email.
One important detail: For custom domains, we’re not just putting a nice UI on top of someone else’s email product. We have built our own mail infrastructure for receiving and sending emails, including a domain setup layer. We don’t rely on AWS SES, SendGrid, Postmark, Mailgun or any other hosted email service for that part. There’s a lot of intangible work that goes into deliverability, routing, queuing, DNS setup, bounces, retries, and abuse prevention, but I think owning this layer matters if we want to build the kind of email product we have in mind.
Today we’re launching native Mac apps. It supports your own domain and Google Workspace. For new domains, we’re trying to make setup less frustrating. For existing Google Workspace teams, the goal is to add that collaboration layer that Gmail doesn’t really have.
This is early access, so it’s not the complete approach yet. There are 500 open positions now and we are planning to open more as per the scale of the infrastructure.
I will be present in the comments. I’d love to hear what you like, what seems obscure, and what you think we’re missing. Thanks for viewing this.
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