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Lachie James
Lachie James

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I built an AI inbox that can't send emails (and that's the whole point)

Every AI productivity tool seems to promise the same thing: "AI handles your email/messages/tasks automatically!"

And every time I try one, the first thing I do is turn off the auto-send because I don't trust it to email my coworkers unsupervised.

So I built the opposite. SlopWeaver is a desktop AI work inbox where:

  • AI pulls context from your connected tools (Gmail, Slack, Linear, etc.)
  • AI drafts replies and stages actions
  • Everything lands in a review queue
  • Nothing sends without you

The short demo shows this queue workflow in action. One message comes in, context gets pulled automatically, draft is ready.

The "nothing auto-sends" constraint has been the best architectural decision in the project. It simplifies trust, UX, and error handling all at once.

Stack: Tauri v2, NestJS, React 19, Claude (Anthropic SDK), Supabase + pgvector, BullMQ.

Building in public. Would love feedback from anyone who's tried to solve the "too many tools, not enough context" problem.

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