Launch HN: April (YC S25) – Voice AI to manage your email and calendar

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Sounds very cool. Do you have concerns around what’s Google are doing themselves in this space? What will differentiate you from them?

Hope the above doesn’t come across as negative - just interested in how you see this market developing.

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How are you handling the attack vector of in-context commands[1]?

[1]: https://guard.io/labs/scamlexity-we-put-agentic-ai-browsers-... (currently on the front page)

> we could solve this dead time problem and start doing things on the go

Interesting idea, but how do you address car safety concerns? Studies consistently show that cognitive distraction, even with voice interfaces, can significantly increase crash risk. Wouldn’t managing emails and calendars while driving still fall into that category?

How are you handling the formatting and tone part of the email so that it doesn't sound like AI? I've tried to use AI tools for email multiple times but always end up significantly editing or rewriting the email myself.

I’ll use email filters which work when I’m not at my inbox.

I think I watched you guys get into the batch via the mcp hackathon yc had. Congratulations and best of luck with the startup.

This looks cool. Any chance you could wrap my Claude Code sessions as well? That's the thing I really want to be voice-driven for my commute. (serious question :) )

Let me just put in a plug here for not trying to fill all of your so-called "dead time" with so-called "productive activity". Mind-wandering times like driving, showering, laundry, coffee-making, etc. can produce some of your most creative moments and may even be essential to your mental health. [0]

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662732...

Definitely seems like it could be useful, but I'd be worried with giving AI write access to emails.

Is there a good audit trail of exactly what actions it takes at each step? I'd personally be worried about leaking proprietary or otherwise private information this way, or having it hallucinate information when it sends out emails potentially causing catastrophic issues.

great demo - wonder why isnt google just providing this as part of Gemini plans - I would pay money for it, why is Google so far behind on Gemini integration?

ooo prompt injecting with my contacts. sounds like fun.

Looks awesome! I downloaded the app and was able to get it connected to my accounts, and it is working.

However, I did notice that connect took around a minute to a minute and a half before the agent was in the call and able to speak. Is this a byproduct of the underlying calling service you're using or the traffic?

Regardless, awesome app, curious to see how it continues to improve!

The only reason I'm not downloading it is because 3 days not enough for me to evaluate it and I don't really want to have to add another reminder to cancel yet another subscription.

We are just another month closer into the year 2000.

Please add text messaging and an Android app too??

Also your website pricing is different than the pricing you mention in this post.

Cool Demo!

I like the idea. I also think you may need a mechanism to detect adverse actions before they are executed. This becomes important because an email cannot be unsent, and if I dont review the text, the 1 in 100 chance of the email sounding weird would freak me out. There is also the basic corner cases against AI prompt injection and all those spam and phishing emails that are rampant and more and more plausible sounding. Wonder if you have ideas around how to deal with those?

Isn't this a repost? I swear I just saw this posted and they got ripped for telling people to drive while using it when it made them crash.

The subscription seems high and it doesn't seem practical to me. Goodluck though.

I love the idea (also wondering when Google would build this)

But the situation where emails are backing upload as you drive to work and back to back meetings sounds like a mismanaged workplace.

The real impact (not a startup idea really) is fixing whatever makes the workplace like that. Usually everyone needs to be involved in everything and bad meeting management. Could be bad prioritisation and taking on too much work. Could be busywork.

If AI could solve those problems or help it might be good.

Is my life so boring that this is of no use to me? I don't think I get 30+ emails in a week (various commercial quasi-spam excepted) let alone that many on a 40 minute drive.

I think I represent a typical office employee where I get maybe a dozen emails at work and a few calendar invites. Nothing I can't get through in the first 10 minutes of work in the morning. Usually emails that take time are those that I can't outsource to AI anyway.

Nevertheless congrats on the launch and best of luck.