😸 Tinder for email

gm legends. It’s Sunday.

This week: swipe right on all the newest email clients, where Meta’s latest LLM ranks against the competition, how to pitch a VC so they’ll actually listen, and where to send your agents when you don’t have a terminal open. Plus, five of our favorite launches from the past week. 

You don’t need to swipe on this email, legend. Just scroll down. Enjoy.

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Tinder’s great, isn’t it? 

You swipe left, and you never see the person again. Or you swipe right…and you never see the person again (probably). Amazing!

A new iOS mobile app, Avec, brings the swiping system to email—but only gets rid of the emails you’re done with. A left swipe means you need to handle it; a right swipe archives it. You can then go through and voice-dictate replies.

Avec isn’t the first tool to reimagine email. Think: Superhuman, a productivity-centric email client that promises to save people 4 hours a week. Or Shortwave, a fast, AI-driven client with tons of keyboard shortcuts.

In fact, Product Hunt has seen several client launches in recent weeks, including: 

• AgentMail, an inbox for your AI agent
• Apparent for Gmail, a free add-on to Gmail that gives it all the features you wish it had
• BAREMAIL, a stripped-down Gmail client for when you have crappy WiFi 
• InboxAgents, which fixes the notoriously prickly LinkedIn inbox, then unifies it with your email and messages from other platforms
• Inbox Autopilot by Dimension, which peruses your inbox like an office assistant and drafts responses for you 
• ReplylessAI, a budget-friendly app for hitting “inbox zero”

Not so long ago, Dan Bulteel was an exec at Adidas and then TikTok, where he ran social media marketing globally. Dude knows his stuff. He’s mentored early-stage founders for Techstars, and he advises multiple companies on their marketing. But before he built Meet-Ting, an AI-powered app for managing your calendar, he’d never really been through the funding gauntlet as a founder.

After pitching London and San Francisco VCs, he has some notes. 

Here’s everything he’d tell a founder before their first VC call, from the big-picture stuff (why you should act like the belle of the ball) to the small hacks others might overlook (why to use DocSend).

Thursday’s Alpha Day brought tons of truly fresh products that haven’t been seen elsewhere. One of these was Grass, built by serial maker Sunny. He writes:

"…we noticed something weird. We message our teammates from anywhere, on the train, at lunch, from the couch. But the moment we want to talk to our coding agent, we need a laptop and a terminal open. That felt broken. Coding agents aren't tools you operate anymore. They're colleagues you work with."

Keep reading to see his solution.

Meta this week announced its latest large language model, Muse Spark. The LLM, which select users can access through a private API preview, fills the shoes left vacant by Llama 4. Meta moved on from Llama 4 after disappointing uptake. 

The biggest difference?

Whereas Llama 4 was open-source, Muse Spark is closed, putting it on a collision course with Google Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude Opus, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and xAI’s Grok. According to benchmark test results released by Meta, Muse Spark is “competitive” with all four but lands in the middle overall.

Meta has gone to great lengths to win the AI race, bringing Alexandr Wang over from Scale AI, aggressively headhunting engineers, and, recently, shifting its focus away from the metaverse.

Now, it’ll need to do a bit more to pull people away from their preferred models. While it’s prepping its launch, competitors aren’t standing pat.

This week alone, OpenAI launched ChatGPT on CarPlay, and Anthropic came out with Claude Managed Agents and its Claude Advisor tool.