I'm building a new email client
And other updates from me in November 2025
Hello everyone! It’s Tony again with another update.
As you may already know, I’ve been talking about building an email app for at least 3 years now.
For the past year, I’ve been experimenting with a few prototypes. I have been using the app myself for the past year, and have shown it to a few of my friends for feedback.
I have finally made up my mind about how I want the email app to work. In the spirit of ship early, ship frequently, I’m going to release a public beta version.
Why build a new email client?
Have you ever noticed that most of your emails these days are not from people anymore? They are mostly automated updates, notifications, promotions, or OTP from companies and services.
The way we use email has changed, but the email clients we use have not.
I’m obsessed with productivity. It’s the same type of obsession that made me create DevUtils, TypingMind, Xnapper, BlackMagic, basically all of my products. I always want to squeeze the last few seconds I can from everything I do, and I use emails every day.
I feel like there is a lot I can do to make my day-to-day interaction with emails more efficient, especially in the AI era.
That’s why I’m building this new email client. I’ll call it “Midday”. This is what the latest prototype looks like:
I plan to release the first public beta sometime in December.
It doesn’t have all the features yet, so if you can’t replace all of your email usage with Midday. For example, I’m currently using both Midday and my previous email client in parallel.
If you are interested and want to give it a try, sign up for the waitlist here, and I’ll send out the beta version soon!
My Black Friday deals
Every year, I discount all of my products on Black Friday (I explained why in a previous post). This year is no exception.
If you want to buy of gift any of my products to a friend, here is the chance!
TypingMind: 60% on the premium license
DevUtils: 50% off
Image.Social: 50% off subscription (lock in the price forever)
MyIndieBook: now $9
Other than this, I have also curated a list of some cool Black Friday deals in a GitHub repo. It now has more than 350 deals. Check it out!
https://github.com/trungdq88/Awesome-Black-Friday-Cyber-Monday
The Hacker Residency in Da Nang
For the whole month of November, I’ve been working at the Hacker Residency, and it’s a lot of fun!
I’ve had more human interactions in November than the entire year combined (which is not a lot). It has become a core memory of my indie journey. Both Ann (my wife) and I love it.
The program is still going on for another 2 days with a big demo day on 29th November. You can check out HRG’s X account to see the activities in real-time.
I’d love to share more about the whole thing in more detail in the next newsletter issue.
That’s all for now!
Thank you for reading and see you again soon!
Hi Tony,
I have been waiting since this post was published for this awesome piece of software. Right now it would fit very well given Gmail's withdrawal of POP3 support for importing from external accounts. I have to make a move, and I'd like to do it on a definitive solution. This one looks very good.
I signed up when this post was published, but haven't heard back since. I'll be happy to give it a try :-)
Love seeing fellow indie hackers building in public! The email client space is crowded but there's definitely room for innovation, especially around AI-powered organization and productivity features. As someone building SaaS tools, I'm curious about your tech stack choice and how you're planning to differentiate from the big players. Keep us posted on the progress!