Your inbox doesn't have an email problem. It has a work problem.
I think we've accepted something that shouldn't be normal.
Every day we trust our inbox to manage commitments that actually matter:
client requests,
invoices,
job applications,
partnerships,
candidates,
follow-ups...
...yet Gmail still treats all of them as just another email.
Over the last few months I've been building Flowmyi, an AI workspace for Gmail that automatically turns conversations into Your Move and Their Move, summarizes every thread, and helps you see the work hidden inside your inbox.
It's still early, but I'd genuinely love feedback from people who live inside Gmail every day.
Here's the product: flowmyi . com
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Comments (9)
Hm... Emails are very sensitive information. How does it work? 🤔 Does Flowmyi store email messages or reads and analyzes them on the fly?
Hi Sergey! Great question, totally fair given how sensitive email is. I don't have access to your data myself, Flowmyi doesn't store the full body of your emails, only metadata, a snippet, and an AI-generated summary. The content is processed transiently through Claude (Anthropic) to classify and summarize, and Anthropic retains that request data for up to 30 days per their standard API terms, all detailed in our privacy policy at flowmyi.com/privacy.
Also worth mentioning: I'm currently going through Google's OAuth verification process for production-scope Gmail access, precisely because of how sensitive this data is. Once that's complete, happy to let you know if that extra layer of verification would make you more comfortable trying it out :)
The "Your Move / Their Move" split is so simple but I've never seen anyone do it. I spend way too much time every morning figuring out which emails are waiting on me vs waiting on someone else. Does it handle threads where the ball keeps bouncing back and forth?
Hi Olga! Really good question, and it's exposed something I want to be upfront about: right now, an ongoing back-and-forth on an existing thread doesn't auto-flip status on every single new message, that only happens on a full sync/re-import today. In practice this matters less than it sounds, since once you act on a thread (reply, mark it done), it moves off your radar, so you're not staring at stale "Your Move" flags for threads you've already handled. But I know that's not the same as catching every bounce automatically, and I'm working on tightening that up properly rather than rushing a fix into sync logic I want to be careful with. I'll follow up here once it's solid.
↳ Replying to Patricia Guerola
Patricia, happy to compare notes. Our Priority Inbox does not resync a whole thread live either, it re-evaluates when new activity actually lands rather than watching every message in real time. Where I landed on the fast bounce back problem is treating the bounce itself as a signal, if ownership flips three or four times in one day, that thread usually matters more than a normal single reply thread, so it gets weighted higher instead of just tracked for whose turn it is. Have you noticed whether the fast back and forth threads are usually the ones that actually matter most, or does that pattern show up on low stakes threads too?
Patricia, the Your Move and Their Move split solves the exact confusion I used to have across three businesses, not which emails existed, but whose turn it actually was. I built something similar into FounderFlow's Priority Inbox, because the real cost was never the volume, it was the seconds spent every time deciding who owed the next action. Curious how you handle a thread where the ball bounces back and forth three or four times in one day, does the tool catch the switch each time or does it need a manual nudge?
Totally agree, that "seconds spent deciding who owed the next action" cost is exactly what compounds. Honest answer on the back-and-forth: right now, an ongoing thread doesn't auto-flip status on every single new message, that only happens on a full sync/re-import today. In practice it matters less than it sounds, since once you act on a thread it moves off your radar, so you're not stuck staring at stale flags for stuff you've already handled. But I know that's not the same as catching every bounce automatically, and I'm working on tightening that up properly rather than rushing a fix into sync logic I want to be careful with. Would still love to compare notes on how you handled it in Priority Inbox, if you're open to it.
I took a closer look at flowmyi.com. The landing page is really clean. The "Your Move / Their Move" concept is immediately clear, and the interactive demo is a nice touch.
A couple of things that could help: the Funnel feature (detecting pipeline stages like "Applied, Interview, Rejected" within email categories) is actually one of the most interesting parts, but it's buried in a grid of 10 features that all get equal weight. If I were a freelancer or recruiter drowning in emails, seeing "we automatically track where each conversation stands" would stop my scroll. I'd consider giving that more space.
Also, your contact email is a personal Gmail in the footer. Switching to something like [email protected] would look more polished and build more trust, especially since the product handles people's email data. Hope it helps.
Olga, thank you so much for taking the time to actually look at the site, this kind of feedback is incredibly valuable to me right now. I'm deliberately in a product validation phase precisely so people like you can point out what I've stopped being able to see clearly after staring at this for weeks.
You're totally right about the Funnel getting buried. I genuinely think it's one of the strongest parts of the product too, so it's useful to hear that from an outside perspective, since it confirms it deserves more visual weight instead of sitting equal to everything else. Did you get a chance to connect your own Gmail and see it with your real categories? Curious whether it worked well for you, and just as importantly, if anything felt off or confusing, I'd genuinely want to know.
And good catch on the email, that's actually already fixed, [email protected] is live now.
I'm gathering as much feedback as I can right now, and I'll be making changes based on exactly this kind of input. Really appreciate you spending the time. If anything else comes to mind, please don't hesitate to share it.
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