Every calendar needs an email to invite someone — but you often just have a phone number. maeil fixes it: add 5551234567@maeil.cc as a guest in Google/Apple/Outlook, they get a text, tap accept, and their RSVP + real email come back. It's also a live MCP server + REST API — point Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or VS Code at mcp.maeil.cc and your agent books a meeting from a bare number, the one thing every AI scheduler can't do. Free to start; MCP on Power. PRODUCTHUNT = 50% off year one.
hey PH 👋 This is maeil.
I built maeil after the third time I was introduced to someone, had their number, and watched a real meeting evaporate because I couldn't put it on a calendar right away without their email. It's a dumb structural gap that's sat in every calendar app for years (and most cell carriers have deprecated txt ics by now) — the guest field only speaks email.
so the whole thing is one primitive: every phone number gets a maeil.cc address. you add @maeil.cc as a guest in Google, Apple, or Outlook, we deliver the invite by text, and on accept (they add it to their cal, and enter their email address) we route their RSVP + real email back to you — to your dashboard, and onto the event if you've connected your calendar. because it's a plain ICS guest address, it works in mostly any calendar or scheduler with no integration.
the part I think this crowd will care most about: maeil is a live MCP server. point Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, or VS Code at https://mcp.maeil.cc/mcp with a Bearer key and your agent gets send_calendar_invite + get_invite_status — so it can book a meeting from a bare phone number without leaving the chat and read or save the email back when they accept. there's a REST API too (POST /v1/invite, consent_attestation required). US-only in v1, transactional A2P 10DLC, STOP honored on every send. for google calendars this auto-adds them to your other contacts, and I'm working on an iOS app to add the rsvp email and the number to a saved contact (but for now shortcuts work too)
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three things I'd love your take on:
1. is the contact auto-add or is agent-books-from-a-number the hook for you?
2. what would you wire this into first — your CRM, a recruiting flow, your own scheduling agent?
3. what outside-of-the-box solution did I miss here?
trying it is free. would love your honest read — I'm here all day.