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Adios.ai — Stop email interruptions, receive emails 3 times a day
Say Adiós to unnecessary interruptions!
How it works:
1. Emails only get delivered into your inbox at the times you specify (e.g. 7am, 1pm and 5pm).
2. Choose email exceptions, which will always be delivered immediately (e.g. grandma@gmail.com)
3. Need to access an email urgently? No problem - just click 'Deliver emails now' in Adiós.
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Lui Kohl
Very clean design, great work on the UI. Signed up and have everything setup in just a couple of minutes. As an old user of unroll, it's nice to see a new free service like this. Only question I have is how do you plan to make money?
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hey @luikohl . Great question. We don't. A while back we wrote a bunch of Google App Scripts to schedule our emails 3 times a day, and has been game-changing for us and our productivity. Wanted to share this with the world.
Took us 10 days to build, and costs us nothing to run. No intention to monetize (we run a BI platform called trevor.io which pays our salaries. Feel free to check it out if you want to support us :) ).
@miestermad, thanks for the question. I wasn't familiar with BatchedInbox, but it looks as though Adios is different in several ways:
- It's free, forever
- You can add email exceptions to Adios, that get delivered immediately
- You can pause Adios (for e.g. 24h) if you're expecting an important email.
- I think the UI is a bit more modern (but I'm biased as I designed it) ;)
@miestermad so i see you built this to "make the world a better place"... but who are you selling the data to? sounds like Unroll.me all over again
@philip_kallberg Hey Philip, not sure if that question was meant for me, but we certainly don't sell the data to anyone (and never would / never will). If you check Tom's response to Lui Kohl, you'll see why we built Adios 😄
@harry_marshall3 thanks for the heads up! 😃i just can't help but be skeptical on free offerings like this, because after 1 year of maintenance, costs, opportunity costs etc. it'll probably be more enticing for you to monetize...
@philip_kallberg if that was directed at me, I didn't built BatchedInbox. I've been using it for a while and wanted to know Adios was different.
I've been doing this for the last few weeks, although sometimes I slip up and check it more often! Sometimes you are just waiting by for an email ha.
It looks like something I really need. I'm going to give it a try for a couple of weeks, but as always "with great power comes great responsibility" so guys, don't fuck this up 😉
@mnlfrgr Ha! Sounds great Manuel. Looking forward to hearing what you think.
Have been using this for about a month and love that I don't get distracted by constant flow of emails throughout the day. All emails are attached to a label if you really want to "peek" before the scheduled delivery time(s) you've set-up.
Pros:- It helps eliminate distractions of constant emails flooding your inbox.
- Schedule them for the time(s) that works best
Cons:-Wish they would add ability to Whitelist entire domains (They are already looking into this though)
One of the best flows I've ever seen - I set it up in 30sec.
Love the ethos behind what the team are doing.
Definitely made me think about how I use emails to communicate (live) in some cases.
Overall - I think this is something more people need to use.
Wow! I was just mentioning to a co-worker the cons of always having the gmail tab open while trying to do work that requires full effort + focus. Just what I needed!
Great app + idea! Like some others have mentioned, can't help but be a little nervous about granting access to emails. Would happily pay for this product. If it really is a free forever side project do you have any interest in open-sourcing the code so the community can grow it and validate it's safety? Really nice work on this 👍
hey @ryan_kotzebue . That's a really good point, and nice idea. We'd have to clean it up a bit, but nothing against open-sourcing it. Will discuss with the team.
@ryan_kotzebue If you're willing to get your hands mildly dirty, you can set this up yourself by creating your own Google Apps Script. Here's what I'm using to defer emails (some daily and some weekly):
```
function moveToInbox(labelName) {
var deferredLabel = GmailApp.getUserLabelByName(labelName);
if (deferredLabel === null) { return };
var threads = deferredLabel.getThreads();
threads.forEach(function(thread) {
thread.removeLabel(deferredLabel);
});
}
function moveToInboxDaily() {
moveToInbox('_deferred_daily');
}
function moveToInboxWeekly() {
moveToInbox('_deferred_weekly');
}
```
Then set a time-based trigger in the App Script to run `moveToInboxDaily()` and `moveToInboxWeekly()` when you want. You'll also need to create filters in Gmail for all mail you want to defer, applying the labels (in my case, `_deferred_daily` and `_deferred_weekly`) and set to "skip the inbox".
Hi everyone. Makers of Adios.ai here. Harry and I are super excited to see this appear on Product Hunt today! Nice surprise. Happy to take any questions.
We built Adios to solve our own problem: email was killing our productivity. The constant context switching every time a new email jumped in. Getting to the end of the day, and feeling like all we'd been doing is answering emails.
Receiving emails 3 times a day (I choose 8am, 1pm and 5pm) has been totally game changing.
Some of the, perhaps unexpected, advantages:
- I don’t have to watch internal threads evolve (I’m effectively only getting a summary digest every 5 hours). To my delight, problems that in the past I would have jumped on to solve, are often solved by someone else long before I even see them.
- I’ve noticed other people’s behaviour change: the emails I receive now are far more succinct and “actionable” than they ever were before. In the past, emails would be more like conversations. Now (presumably because I reply to any chain max 3 times a day) the conversation is far more focused on getting things done.
- And I no longer receive emails at unsociable hours (after 5pm I never receive another email until 8am).
As a result I’m happier, more focused at work, and I’m sleeping better at nights.
Look forward to your feedback. :)
How is this product different from the competitors? Is there any possibility to delete spam?
Pros:usefull for everyone
Cons:so many competitors
hey Nadezhda. Thanks for the review! 😃
We've spent quite a bit of time on the design, which hopefully will make it more fun that use than the competition - but Adios is also totally free ;)
Cool, so our day of being featured on Product Hunt is over.
Just thought I'd mention to anyone who ends up here that being 'hunted' was incredibly useful.
Not only did a bunch of people sign up to Adios, but we also received lots of pertinent questions that revealed the concerns many of our potential users have about signing up. Some were obvious (e.g. Does Adios access the contents of my emails? No, it doesn't), but others we just wouldn't have thought of by ourselves (e.g. Will Adios mess up my existing filters? No, it won't). We can now address these on our homepage and ensure that future visitors have all the information they need to get started with Adios.
Being featured here was a fun, action-packed, and incredibly educational experience 😃
To anyone starting a business, I totally recommend taking full advantage of community-driven launchpads like PH.
Too much love for this. It's so simple <3 Although I have pushed the Deliver Emails Now button a few times already...
I like the app as it helps me to focus on the real work to happen. Simple and straight forward. Get me my mails in doses. It's a good help on a way to more discipline.
Pros:Completely free, quick and easy to turn on and off, personal contact to creators
Cons:You need to give them access to your mails. They do not have a standard GDPR-compliant legal process in place yet (relevant in EU)
Hey Martin, thanks for your review. Really appreciate the feedback. One thing - we're based in Europe and are GDPR compliant. Do you think you could be specific about what you think is missing?
If you value your time and work you need big, focused time intervals to focus and creative thinking. Connection to the network should be restricted to 1 hour 1-3 times per day max for email, phone calls, and whatever social crap you are stuck into.
Pros:Good idea to stay focused.
Cons:Email is not enough.
Hi Harry, I used this product and then when I disabled it, its messed with my config in gmail.. now many emails to skipping my inbox, going into "All Mail" and I have no idea how to resolve?
correction, emails are now skipping the inbox and going directly to the "important" folder. I've tried a host of things and nothing has worked. Very frustrating that my inbox was working perfectly before this install and now not..
hey @jared_molko1 . Super sorry to hear that. Taking a look now.
In your Gmail settings, under "Filters and Blocked Addresses" could you see if there is a filter there that says 'Apply label "Adios Stashed Emails"'? If you do, just delete this and everything should start working normally again.
@jared_molko1 I think I see what happened. Looks like the 'Adios Stashed Emails' label may have been removed manually before disabling, so the filter didn't get cleaned up properly. We are fixing this now.
The filter I mentioned earlier might just say "Skip inbox". This is the one you want to remove.
Really appreciate you reaching out about this. I've sent you an email. Let me know if you're still having problems.
