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Orvia Mail
Email that asks less of you
7 followers
Email that asks less of you
7 followers
In the age of vibe coding, features are abundant. Restraint is not. Orvia Mail is our answer to an inbox that has become too ambitious. It does not want to become your workspace, assistant, or second brain. It is designed to help you understand what needs you, make a decision, and move on. AI stays at the edges. The interface stays quiet. Nothing competes with the message. Choose Orvia if you believe the best software should not demand more of your attention. It should return some of it.
Hi Product Hunt,
We are living through a strange moment in software. It has never been easier to add a feature, and maybe never been harder to know when to stop.
Email clients are becoming workspaces, copilots, dashboards, task managers, and second brains. Every addition can be justified. Together, they turn a tool we open every day into another place that asks to be managed.
I built Orvia Mail from a different belief: software can be capable without being loud.
Designing Orvia has often meant removing things I could have built. The message stays at the center. AI stays at the edges. Information appears only when it helps you decide. The interface is quiet not because minimalism looks good, but because attention is finite.
Orvia is not trying to reinvent email. It is trying to give email boundaries again: understand what needs you, make a decision, and move on with your day.
I hope people choose Orvia not because it has the longest feature list, but because they share this belief. In a world where software can do almost anything, taste is knowing what it should not do.
I am building Orvia independently, and this community understands the tension between what can be built and what should be built better than most.
What is one thing your favorite software deliberately chooses not to do?
Love how calm this looks and the multi-inbox setup is exactly what I need. One thing though, it would be really helpful if you could set per-account send-as addresses or aliases, since I sometimes need to send from a different address than the one I'm reading mail on. That would make switching identities way smoother without messing with settings every time.
@sevillfry Just to make sure I understand correctly: Orvia already lets you switch between connected sending accounts, and the matching signature changes automatically.
Are you referring to multiple actual From addresses attached to a single account? For example, using one Gmail account to send as hello@company.com or support@company.com without connecting each address as a separate mailbox?
Love the restraint here, this is exactly the kind of email app I have been waiting for. One idea though: could you add a simple "snooze until..." option that lives in plain sight without any AI nudging or smart suggestions, just a calendar picker and nothing else?