Write emails with the help of AI and send them with an API call. E-mail shouldn't be so difficult.
Volamail is an open source email editor and provider. It can be self-hosted on any AWS account and it features AI-based editing functionalities to painlessly achieve any email layout you can think of.
@big_tree
Hey! There's no asynchronous tracking on sending yet, a fully baked logging functionality is what we're currently focusing on post beta launch. This launch is oriented towards the AI editor, we want people to experiment with it and give us feedback on user experience and design quality.
A roadmap for upcoming features is present in the landing page of the product, and also, with Volamail being open source, the releases we make will be public on GitHub and they will feature a changelog of everything we worked on.
Thanks a lot for the questions!
@lamthomas
Hey! So we had two main goals with this:
1. Simplify the creation of complex email designs. We think AI prompting can be extremely powerful when you have a clear idea of what you want the design to look like.
2. Integrate with existing tech stacks easily via a plain Rest API.
We also had opinions about this being fully open source and self-hostable. A lot of competitors in this field can get quite expensive as you scale, so we want to always give the flexibility of self-hosting when needed.
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Great to see Volamail being launched, @plushdohn! 🎉 I'm curious about the LLM implementation in your email editor. How exactly are you leveraging AI to enhance the user experience? I'm also wondering if you plan to offer integrations with other popular tools or platforms to streamline workflows. The idea of self-hosting on AWS is intriguing; could you share more about the setup process? Looking forward to trying out the open beta!
@ezshine
Hey, thanks for the comment!
The LLM is at the core of the editor. The editor itself is a large AI prompt that renders the designs you request to the LLM, on top of that you can edit each element manually to make fine-tuned adjustments (prompting all the time can get annoying).
The implementation is just prompting for now, but we experimented a lot to settle on the vendor that provided the best quality and our prompts are tailored to generate emails compatible with most email clients. We're also working on a fine-tuned model that is based on better email designs we hand-crafted ourselves to give an even better starting point when generating an email from scratch.
Regarding self-hosting, we have a guide on our docs on how to do it. AWS is mainly for the Amazon SES offering (which we use for email sending), the actual product can be self-hosted anywhere and is not dependent on AWS.
Cheers!
This sounds really interesting, Luca! 👏 I appreciate the focus on collaboration and the open source aspect of Volamail. I'm curious about how you plan to handle user feedback during the open beta. Will there be specific channels for users to report issues or suggest features? Also, how do you envision the integration with different tech stacks—do you have any examples yet? Looking forward to seeing how this evolves!
@elke_qin
Hey!
You can send us feedback via our Discord server or by tagging us on X. For a more formal channel you can also reach out to info@volamail.com directly.
Integration with other tech stacks should always be possible via the Rest API, but in the future we're envisioning the creation of language-specific SDKs to improve developer experience when possible.
Cheers!
Sounds interesting, @plushdohn! How does the collaboration feature work in Volamail? Can multiple users edit the same email simultaneously? Curious about the UX!
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Stumbled upon this tool through an online ad, first impressions it’s kinda cool but it feels like AI-driven emails could mess up the personal touch, has anyone else felt this, also wondering if a feature for easier integration with other email platforms might help? hasn't really solved my problem tbh
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So, it's supposed to make writing emails easier but then you added AI and now it's kinda doing too much, how is this different from all the other services that use AI for emails, also wondering how secure it is if we’re hosting it ourselves?
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