Show HN: Dead Simple Email – Email API for AI Agents
TL;DR
We built this after running into the same wall everyone hits: Gmail suspends bot accounts within days, SES is outbound-only with no inbox or threading, and the only purpose-built option jumps from $20/mo to $200/mo with nothing in between. Dead Simple Email gives AI agents their own email addresses via API. No OAuth, no human in the loop. Each inbox gets a real address, send/receive, webhook on inbound mail, and full conversation threading. Infrastructure is our own. KumoMTA for outbound delivery, Dovecot for IMAP, dedicated mail servers. Not a reseller sitting on top of SES. MCP server is included, so agents built on Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP-compatible LLM connect natively without writing integration code. Pricing: 5 inboxes free, 100 inboxes for $29/mo, 500 for $99/mo.
Nauti's Take
Dead Simple Email nails a real pain point — Gmail kills bot accounts and SES doesn't give you a real inbox. The built-in MCP server makes integration genuinely frictionless for Claude and ChatGPT agents.
The risk: email deliverability from a new infrastructure provider is hard to trust without a track record; reputation takes years, not days.
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