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StoryMail 🧠📬 – Your AI Inbox Detective

ashish-nagmoti — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 18:36:49 +0000

✉️ StoryMail – Inbox Whispers, Powered by AI

This is a submission for the Postmark Challenge: Inbox Innovators.

🚀 What I Built

StoryMail turns your cluttered inbox into a smart, searchable, story-driven space.

It’s not just another email tool — it's your inbox therapist, cyber-scam bouncer, and personal narrator, rolled into one. Here's what it does:

🧠 Email Parsing & JSON Conversion

Every incoming email is converted into a clean, structured JSON using a 3rd-party SaaS API. This makes it LLM-ready.
📚 Email Classification

Each email is categorized into Productivity, Newsletter, Scam, or Office, helping you focus only on what matters.
💬 Chat with Your Inbox

With Supermemory + an LLM, users can ask questions like:
- “Did I receive any event invites this week?”
- “Any suspicious messages?”
- “Summarize my work-related emails in one paragraph”
📨 Weekly Digest With a Twist

You’ll receive a personalized weekly email summary — not just a boring list, but an AI-written story about your inbox week.

Yes, your email life becomes a story worth telling.

💻 Code Repository

📦 GitHub: https://github.com/ashishnagmoti/storymail

🌐 Demo

Frontend: https://story-mail-olive.vercel.app
Video: youtube

✅ How to Try

Click “Login with Google” (test credentials supported), let the app fetch emails, and start chatting!

Example Prompt:

"Give me a detective-style summary of all office mails received this week."

🛠️ How I Built It

🧱 Tech Stack:

Backend: Django + PostgreSQL (Neon DB)
Frontend: React + shadcn/ui
Hosting: Railway (Backend), Vercel (Frontend)
Authentication: Google OAuth
AI Layer: Gemini API for context-aware Q&A
Email Conversion: POSTMARK outbound access and webhook

💌 Postmark Integration:

Used for weekly digest delivery
Loved how fast, reliable, and clean Postmark is
Debugging with delivery logs saved me HOURS

🧪 Challenges I Faced

Getting CORS right with separate Railway + Vercel deploys 😅
Making LLM responses sound human and story-like
Designing a UI that’s not boring, but not overwhelming either

👨‍💻 Team

Built solo by @ashishnagmoti

✨ Final Thoughts

Emails are boring.

Inbox stories are not.

StoryMail doesn’t just tell you what’s in your inbox — it helps you understand it, act on it, and maybe even laugh a little along the way.

💡 "What if your inbox was smart enough to write you a newsletter… about your newsletters?"

That’s the heart of StoryMail.

Thanks for reading — and big kudos to Postmark for making email cool again!

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ashish-nagmoti — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 06:57:48 +0000

Learning to Code: My CS50 Story

ashish-nagmoti — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:12:24 +0000

A few months agow, I was completely clueless about what to do in my programming journey. Then, due to advice from some YouTubers and friends, I embarked on my CS50 journey. I must say—what an experience it was!

I completed my CS50 course a few weeks ago

By exploring, learning, failing, and understanding various technologies such as Scratch, C, data structures, memory management, HTML, CSS, SQLite, Python, JavaScript, and Flask.
Learning the basics of all these technologies in such a short time with such amazing explanations and creative demonstrations was incredible.
The problem sets associated with each week were really challenging and sharpened my knowledge and programming skills.

Problem Sets

To be honest, the problem sets were one of the best things, and Brian's short snippets explaining problems and solutions were amazing.
The problem sets where we had to play with 64-bit math to convert normal images to various filters, the finance problem set where we had to figure out routing of GET and POST requests and various stuff in Flask, and Fiftyville where we had to catch a robber using database records were such enthralling experiences.

Imposter Syndrome

Although now I say it was such a great experience, when I was doing the course, I felt like an imposter all the time.
I always doubted if I could really complete it, but then I had a friend who was doing the course with me. That really pushed me, and now here I am, writing a blog about completing it 🙂.

Final Project

When I arrived at the last part of the course to make a final project, I felt so confused about how to progress, what to make, and what technology to use, among many other questions.
Then I tried to scan my own problems. I always had trouble hopping between two websites or apps for listening to lofi study beats and maintaining my to-do list. I thought, what if I could combine these two into one website?
I know it's not a mind-blowing or world-changing website, but hey, at least I will use it.
So I decided to make a website that combines productivity, i.e., lofi study beats, and habits, i.e., a to-do list.
Website link:- http://ashishnagmoti.pythonanywhere.com/
Tutorial Link:-https://youtu.be/NlTR48V-_rs?si=qCaCIaMN0fsdA0YP

Conclusion

My last but not least words will be that this is one of the most amazing things I have ever done in my learning journey. I definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to enter CS.

So this was my experience. Share your thoughts/experience in the comments.

My Hacktoberfest Journey: Navigating Challenges and Embracing Growth

ashish-nagmoti — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 14:30:46 +0000

Intro

Hey there! I'm Ashish, a proud contributor to Hacktoberfest 2023. This marked my debut in both Hacktoberfest and the world of open-source contributions. The journey has been nothing short of amazing. Stay tuned for the exciting story!
GITHUB

Highs and Lows

Starting from the beginning, I signed up for Hacktoberfest and grasped the basics of Git and GitHub by October 8th.

My initial contributions in early October were on some less meaningful repositories, but I soon realized their futility. So, I shifted my focus towards genuine contributions.

Venturing into repositories with complex C/C++ codebases proved challenging. I resorted to contributing to documentation in one repository, and to my amazement, it got merged - a pleasant surprise!

With an aspiring developer's mindset, I persevered, attempting contributions in various repositories. While some were rejected, others turned out to be inactive.

As the event neared its end, I stumbled upon a movie website repository written in HTML and CSS. I made multiple contributions, and two were successfully merged, making me the happiest person on the planet.

However, the repository presented complex issues I couldn't resolve. So, I came up with a unique idea. I uploaded an app I had developed in Dart the previous year on GitHub and made a contribution, which I naturally merged myself.

Despite some setbacks, I didn't achieve anything particularly unique. Nonetheless,

I'm content with the little I was able to accomplish.

Growth

I've come a long way from knowing the languages to understanding their practical use in development. Learning CLI and Git was a game-changer. The vast world of open source is thrilling! Ready to contribute and participate in more events.