<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>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:52:08 +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 "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<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>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:33:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482961</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482961</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://fluxmail.ai" rel="nofollow">https://fluxmail.ai</a><p>It's an AI-native email client. Launching soon!<p>My goal is to help people get done with email faster, so that they can get back to doing other stuff. A lot of the features are designed around this goal: unified inbox, AI summarization, AI email drafting, etc.<p>Some of these are table stakes but I think there's also an opportunity to significantly revamp how email is done in the AI age. Imagine having your own personal assistant that goes through your email and surfaces the highest priority things that you need to know automatically.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:50:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268958</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268958</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "PGlite – Embeddable Postgres"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Primarily bundle size. Pglite is a 3 MB binary, SQLite is <1 MB.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:54:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46154323</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46154323</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46154323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "PGlite – Embeddable Postgres"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was evaluating local storage solutions a while back and I tried setting up PGlite, but unfortunately I couldn't get it to work in Next.js with Turbopack in a web worker.<p>I've been using SQLite locally instead with wa-sqlite and it's been working great for my use case so far. It's also more lightweight.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:54:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149752</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149752</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm working on <a href="https://www.fluxmail.ai" rel="nofollow">https://www.fluxmail.ai</a>, a modern, AI-powered email client.<p>I think there's a lot of potential for AI to improve the way we organize and manage our inboxes, while still letting us keep control over it.<p>What I've learned is that there are a lot of little features that make up a good email client that you may not even think about when using one, like threading, quote blocks, even what email address(es) to autofill when you reply to an email. For an app you use potentially for hours a day, the polish and "last 20%" makes a huge difference - and takes a while to build!<p>If you have any feedback, especially on what features are most important to you in an email app, I'd love to hear it :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:05:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45877246</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45877246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45877246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm working on 2 projects right now:<p>1. Fluxmail - <a href="https://fluxmail.ai" rel="nofollow">https://fluxmail.ai</a><p>Fluxmail is an AI-powered email app that helps you get done with email faster. There are a couple of core tenets/features that it has, including:<p>- local-first - we don't store your emails and we make interactions as fast as possible<p>- unified inbox - so you can view emails from all your email addresses in one place<p>- AI-native - helping you draft emails, search for emails, and read through your emails faster<p>I'd love to hear if these features resonate with you, or if there are other features that you feel are missing from your current email app.<p>2. ExploreJobs.ai - <a href="https://explorejobs.ai" rel="nofollow">https://explorejobs.ai</a><p>This is a job board for AI jobs and companies. The job market in AI is pretty hot right now, and there are a lot of cool AI companies out there. I'm hoping to connect job seekers with fast-growing AI companies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 01:07:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45563680</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45563680</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45563680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm working on 2 projects right now:<p>1. Fluxmail - <a href="https://fluxmail.ai" rel="nofollow">https://fluxmail.ai</a><p>Fluxmail is an AI-powered email app that helps you get done with email faster. I think there's a significant opportunity for AI to change the way we use email, and I'm experimenting with ways to improve the status quo. I'd love to hear what features you'd like to see in such an app!<p>2. ExploreJobs.ai - <a href="https://explorejobs.ai" rel="nofollow">https://explorejobs.ai</a><p>This is a job board for AI jobs and companies. The job market in AI is pretty hot right now, and there are a lot of cool AI companies out there. I'm hoping to connect job seekers with fast-growing AI companies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 23:30:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45420155</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45420155</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45420155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://notabase.io" rel="nofollow">https://notabase.io</a> - a note-taking app for networked thinking.<p>It supports page stacking, linked references, block references, a graph view, and all that good stuff. Think of it as similar to Roam Research / Obsidian.<p>It's also open source so you can self-host it. Here's the code: <a href="https://github.com/churichard/notabase">https://github.com/churichard/notabase</a><p>I'm hoping to add support for shareable links soon. Open to other ideas or feedback!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 19:51:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34537748</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34537748</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34537748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Switching Rich Text Editors, Part 1: Picking Tiptap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When evaluating rich text editors for the note-taking app I started about a year ago (<a href="https://notabase.io" rel="nofollow">https://notabase.io</a>), I ended up going with Slate because of its flexible schema and customizable plugin architecture.<p>I sort of regret that choice now. I ran into a lot of bugs when integrating it which I had to manually work around; issues go months without being addressed; and there still isn't good cross-platform support, especially for Android. With a more active contributor base, Slate could be a fantastic library, but I get the feeling that it's in maintenance mode now, with not many major changes in the past year and a v1.0 still far in the future.<p>Tiptap looks like it might be a good choice now, but I find it off-putting that I can't insert links in the demo editor on Tiptap's website (<a href="https://tiptap.dev" rel="nofollow">https://tiptap.dev</a>), especially for my use case (a note-taking app whose core concept revolves around links).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:54:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30307992</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30307992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30307992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm working on an open source note-taking app called Notabase [1].<p>It's built primarily for my use - I just never liked most existing note-taking apps and wanted to make one that's easy to use and fit the way that I think. I made it open source [2] so other people can build on top of my ideas, and released a hosted version so that other people can use it if they like it.<p>It would be nice if other people found it helpful, but regardless it's something that I intrinsically enjoy working on.<p>[1]: <a href="https://notabase.io" rel="nofollow">https://notabase.io</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/churichard/notabase" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/churichard/notabase</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2022 17:00:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30303766</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30303766</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30303766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Show HN: MdSilo – A knowledge silo that runs in your web browser"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe it's unclear, but you just need to insert a row in the subscriptions table with the value "ACTIVE". You don't actually need to have a real subscription on the hosted version of Notabase.<p>Besides, if you know how to code, it's simple to change the max number of notes to something like Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY anyway - but adding a row in the database is likely easier so that's what I recommend.<p>It may be a bit of a hassle, but I do this because the codebase for the hosted version and the self-hosted version is the same, which makes it easier for me to maintain. In the future, I may make a separate self-hosted version so that this step can be skipped.</p>
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<p>Yep, although there are people who would change the license or ignore it, and hope that no one notices.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:07:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29973183</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29973183</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29973183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Show HN: MdSilo – A knowledge silo that runs in your web browser"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hey, the creator of Notabase [1] here, which it looks like MdSilo was based off of.<p>Your project looks cool! Always interesting to see how other people tackle note-taking. Thanks for keeping it open source.<p>I'd encourage people to check out Notabase as well, which offers an alternative vision and UI which some people might like better. You can use it hosted, or self-host it yourself -- the code is open source [2].<p>Best of luck with MdSilo! :)<p>[1]: <a href="https://notabase.io" rel="nofollow">https://notabase.io</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/churichard/notabase" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/churichard/notabase</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2022 20:23:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29971297</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29971297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29971297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you want an open source alternative, you should check out Notabase [0]. It's like a mix of Notion + Roam Research, designed to be delightful and easy to use. The difference from Obsidian is that it's database-backed.<p>[0]: <a href="https://notabase.io" rel="nofollow">https://notabase.io</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2021 14:49:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28896861</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28896861</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28896861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Might be worth checking out Notabase [0]. The UI is designed to be really clean and easy-to-use.<p>[0]: <a href="https://notabase.io" rel="nofollow">https://notabase.io</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2021 14:47:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28896840</link><dc:creator>RichardChu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28896840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28896840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RichardChu in "Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm making Notabase [1], which is a personal knowledge base for non-linear thinking. It's inspired by note-taking apps like Notion, Roam Research, and Obsidian.<p>I started it because I wanted a note-taking app for networked thought / Zettelkasten that is easy to use for the average user (not the average Hacker News reader). So you don't need to use Markdown if you don't want to, you can format text in other ways like using the formatting toolbar or through keyboard shortcuts. And syncing between different devices is handled automatically for you since it's a web app.<p>I also wanted to make it open source [2] so that anyone could look at the code and contribute to it if they wanted to. I'm not a big fan of the way that a lot of the apps in this space are closed source -- you don't really know what they're doing with your data, and it doesn't inspire confidence in the app's longevity.<p>It's still early in development, but I'm hoping to build a solid community behind it.<p>[1] <a href="https://notabase.io" rel="nofollow">https://notabase.io</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/churichard/notabase" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/churichard/notabase</a></p>
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