Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m John, the solo maker behind Talanoa. Funny enough, Talanoa was never supposed to become a product. I originally built it just for myself. I spend a huge part of my day in email, but I never really liked using traditional email clients. So instead of looking for yet another one, I started building the inbox I wanted for myself. Then I showed it to a few friends. They loved it. They started using it. And eventually, they put enough pressure on me to turn my little personal project into a real product. So… here we are. Along the way, one idea became increasingly obvious to me: Email is a conversation that forgot it was one. A thread between two people is basically a chat. A message, a reply, a reply to the reply. Yet email clients still show repeated quotes, signatures, headers, footers and years of clutter. So I rebuilt Talanoa around a different idea: what if email felt more like a messenger? Today, Talanoa turns your inbox into clean, chat-like conversations, while keeping everything that makes email, email. But it goes further: 💬 Emails become actual conversations ✅ Any email can become a todo with a next step and due date 📅 Your calendar lives alongside your conversations ✨ AI helps you search, summarize and write, entirely on-device 📥 Gmail, Outlook, iCloud and IMAP accounts can live in one inbox 🔒 No cloud sync, no tracking. Your emails stay on your computer. I’ve been building Talanoa independently, talking to users, breaking things, rebuilding them, and questioning quite a few assumptions we’ve had about email for the last 30 years. What started as a tool I built for myself has slowly become something much bigger, and this version finally feels like the Talanoa I always wanted to use. I’d genuinely love your feedback, especially on one thing: Does the “email as a conversation” approach change the way you feel about your inbox? And if there’s one thing your current email client does that you couldn’t live without, tell me. I’m listening 👇 Thanks for checking out Talanoa ❤️ John

Talanoa

Email that feels like chat.

Email that feels like chat.