<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: RichardChu</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RichardChu</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:53:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=RichardChu" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I noticed that too. It's unreasonable to extrapolate anything from that graph when it only ends at 2022.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:51:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893271</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893271</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "How to Write with an LLM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It might be a joke, but I'm sure there are lots of people who don't perceive it as such. For me, it pulled me out of the article and diluted its advice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:35:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755006</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755006</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in ""IT WoRKs BeTter in the App ""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The problem is that at big companies such as Google, it can take months to plan out features and put them on the roadmap. That is, if they even get prioritized above other things to begin with.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:22:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478927</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478927</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Don't Paste the AI, please"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The funny thing is: this website reads like AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:41:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374469</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374469</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm working on self-hosted local email infrastructure for agents and apps: <a href="https://github.com/churichard/fluxmail" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/churichard/fluxmail</a><p>It consists of a MCP server, a CLI, and a REST API. Everything is run and hosted locally on your computer. You can use the MCP server to give your AI agents access to email, use the CLI to interact with your email, or build your own email apps on top of the REST API.<p>The goal is to make it simple and easy to interact with your email through any interface you choose, and to give you control over the way that you use your email.<p>It supports Gmail, Outlook, and IMAP/SMTP. Give it a try and let me know what you think!</p>
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<p>This is really cool - I think desktop tools, like native apps, CLIs, self-hosted tools, etc., have a lot of potential for innovation since they can be consumed by agents and the user can maintain more privacy, while also using their preferred agents and not being locked into a specific one.</p>
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<p>What's the use case for doing that, just wondering?</p>
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<p>Awesome! Let me know if you have any feedback.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:51:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897866</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks! I'm planning on supporting a granular permission system, so per account you should be able to customize which tools it should be able to use (e.g. readonly, read+write including drafts (but no send), or full access).<p>You should be able to customize the permissions per API key as well, so if there's a case where you want to write or send something just one time then you can just swap in the API key and do that and swap back if you want to.<p>There will also be a dashboard (in addition to the CLI) so that you can easily audit everything that has happened in the system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:59:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897177</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm working on a self-hosted MCP server to give your AI agents access to email: <a href="https://github.com/churichard/fluxmail-mcp" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/churichard/fluxmail-mcp</a><p>The main reason is because I wanted a privacy-preserving way to access my email without using ChatGPT or Claude or another hosted email connector. Also, this supports connecting multiple accounts, even multiple accounts from different email providers, with a unified API. And you can use it with any AI agent, even one you build yourself.<p>It supports Gmail API and IMAP/SMTP right now, with Outlook / Microsoft Graph coming soon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:20:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896628</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896628</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Better Auth is joining Vercel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Better Auth is great, I use it for all my projects. Congrats to the team!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:51:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820378</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820378</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is this AI written (or edited)? The word "genuinely" appears 4 times on the page.<p>Man, I hate how often people/LLMs use that word now. Maybe other people gloss over it but it's super distracting to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:29:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48813378</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48813378</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48813378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Spotify killed the thrill of the hunt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have qualms with Spotify as well, but not sure I entirely agree with the premise of the article. It still takes effort to find good music. There's a LOT of music being produced nowadays, and wading through all of that and finding niche stuff you like can still be a "hunt" - it's just a different kind.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:48:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601112</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601112</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm working on Fluxmail, an AI-native email app for people who get a lot of email. It has an AI agent, automatic prioritization and categorization, automatic follow-up reminders, drafting with AI, and a bunch of other stuff.<p>There's a couple of other ideas I'm integrating right now, like a kanban view for your emails</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:13:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543441</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543441</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm working on an AI-native email client that organizes, prioritizes, and drafts emails for you.<p>The vision is for everyone to have an executive assistant that manages their email. It's built for people who spend hours in their inbox every week.<p>It has automatic prioritization, split inboxes, snippets, bundles, automatic follow-up reminders, and an AI agent that can do stuff for you  -- without deleting your emails.<p>If you've read this far, I'd encourage you to give it a try and let me know what you think!<p><a href="https://fluxmail.ai" rel="nofollow">https://fluxmail.ai</a></p>
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<p>I'm working on Fluxmail, an AI-powered email client! <a href="https://fluxmail.ai" rel="nofollow">https://fluxmail.ai</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 03:34:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941281</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941281</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://churichard.com" rel="nofollow">https://churichard.com</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:27:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622655</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622655</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm building a new AI-powered email client called Fluxmail: <a href="https://fluxmail.ai" rel="nofollow">https://fluxmail.ai</a><p>Here is the current list of features:<p>- Unified inbox: Connect multiple Gmail accounts and see all your emails in one inbox. No more switching between different tabs or accounts.<p>- Email bundles: Automatically group your emails together into bundles, so if you have many emails from the same sender, they'll no longer clutter up your inbox.<p>- Email summarization: Save time by getting summaries of your email threads.<p>- Keyboard shortcuts: Navigate through your inbox using Gmail-style keyboard shortcuts.<p>- Automatic dark mode: All your emails are converted to dark mode automatically.<p>- Block email trackers: We detect and block email trackers to protect your privacy.<p>- Privacy-first: We sync your emails from Gmail and cache them locally on your device - they are not stored on our servers. We don't train on your data or use AI providers that train on your data.<p>Lots of other features coming soon, like split inbox, AI search, etc. It's in early access now, would love feedback from anyone interested in checking it out!<p>I'm also curious to hear - what is the most annoying thing about email that you have to deal with today?</p>
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<p>It should be fixed now. Thanks for flagging!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:01:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491615</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491615</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (Jan 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm building a new email client called Fluxmail: <a href="https://fluxmail.ai" rel="nofollow">https://fluxmail.ai</a><p>You can connect a bunch of Gmail accounts with it and see all your emails together in one place. It also has some features to better organize your emails and automatically categorize them, as well as some AI features for helping you to draft emails.<p>It's in early access now, would love feedback from anyone interested in checking it out!</p>
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