Inkbox (YC S26)

Give your agent an Inkbox identity, and he'll send blue bubbles to you — your fam, your leads, your customers: https://lnkd.in/eTaCVbSA

Every time I visit a new place, I like to run it. This time I ran to bid farewell to Boston, a city I lived in for 10 years. I'm moving to SF with Alex Wilcox and Dima Vremenko. Inkbox (YC S26) is joining Y Combinator. We're building the identity layer for AI agents: giving them their own email, phone number, and internet address. Developers and companies use Inkbox to give their agents a persistent identity with shared context across every communication channel. Agents can even bootstrap their own presence through a public endpoint, no human signup required. Excited to be working with our group partners Tyler Bosmeny, Boris Jabes, Ankit Gupta, Jon Xu, Finbarr Taylor, and to have NFX (Pete Flint, Anna Piñol, Valerie Osband Mahoney) and Night Capital (Kevin Carter, Colt Sauers) behind us. Bay Area friends: let's catch up!

What if your AI agent had its own phone number and email? Starting today, Maritime users can spin up an OpenClaw agent with its own identity: a unique phone number and dedicated email inbox in partnership with Inkbox (YC S26). That means you can give your agent’s contact info to people you meet at conferences, events, or online - and they can text, call, or email your agent directly. Use it for: - Scheduling - Answering questions - CC’ing your agent on emails for context - Forwarding information your agent should know - Texting it when you need something done - Letting other people reach your agent without giving out your personal number With Maritime, you can now select “OpenClaw with identity” and launch an agent in about a minute. It immediately gets its own phone number and email, so your agent can start operating across real communication channels with its own identity. Thanks to our partnership with Inkbox (YC S26), we’re giving the first 100 users access to agents with unique phone numbers and inboxes. Use access code: INKBOX26

It takes ONE command to launch a Nous Research Hermes Agent with its own email, phone number for calls/SMS, and tunnel service that wakes up your agent as soon you reach out! Checkout our fork here: https://lnkd.in/eV88bnZC

Tonight's Ditch the Deck NYC featured some incredible AI innovations. 5 founders live demo'd their products. Here's what they're building + how you can help 👇 1️⃣ Ally Tam Tumasova at Vesna Health: Metabolic health app optimized for female biology. 👉 Ask: Connect with founders and builders within the women’s health space. 2️⃣ Bradley Hunter at HUNTfor: Conversational layer empowering creators to scale engagement and revenue. 👉 Ask: Looking for content creators to test and give product feedback. 3️⃣ Ray Liao at Inkbox: Give AI agents their own email, phone, and Internet address. 👉 Ask: Intros to companies building AI agents that communicate across multiple channels (voice, email, SMS) for industries like freight, CRM, and e-commerce. 4️⃣ Jason Shatsky at Dibs: AI-powered ranking system that helps consumers save time and money on live event tickets. 👉 Ask: Beta users willing to download Dibs and provide feedback. 5️⃣ Adam Roman at Cosyra: AI-assisted development from your phone. 👉 Ask: Developer perspective on what devs want when using agents from their mobile devices today. Comment below if you can help one of these founders! 👇 A huge thank you to our partners that made tonight possible. Reach out if you're a startup needing legal or GPU support!  👩⚖️ Hilary Adams with Gunderson Dettmer: startup legal 🏦 Justin Mongroo with Runpod: AI infrastructure developers trust Already excited for our next Ditch the Deck. RSVP for Ditch the Deck during Boston Tech Week on Wednesday, May 27. Free RSVP: https://lnkd.in/daSKUHHD If you're building at the intersection of AI and user experience, pitch us at FoundersEdge. We review every pitch submitted on our website, no warm intro needed!

Tonight's Ditch the Deck NYC featured some incredible AI innovations. 5 founders live demo'd their products. Here's what they're building + how you can help 👇 1️⃣ Ally Tam Tumasova at Vesna Health: Metabolic health app optimized for female biology. 👉 Ask: Connect with founders and builders within the women’s health space. 2️⃣ Bradley Hunter at HUNTfor: Conversational layer empowering creators to scale engagement and revenue. 👉 Ask: Looking for content creators to test and give product feedback. 3️⃣ Ray Liao at Inkbox: Give AI agents their own email, phone, and Internet address. 👉 Ask: Intros to companies building AI agents that communicate across multiple channels (voice, email, SMS) for industries like freight, CRM, and e-commerce. 4️⃣ Jason Shatsky at Dibs: AI-powered ranking system that helps consumers save time and money on live event tickets. 👉 Ask: Beta users willing to download Dibs and provide feedback. 5️⃣ Adam Roman at Cosyra: AI-assisted development from your phone. 👉 Ask: Developer perspective on what devs want when using agents from their mobile devices today. Comment below if you can help one of these founders! 👇 A huge thank you to our partners that made tonight possible. Reach out if you're a startup needing legal or GPU support!  👩⚖️ Hilary Adams with Gunderson Dettmer: startup legal 🏦 Justin Mongroo with Runpod: AI infrastructure developers trust Already excited for our next Ditch the Deck. RSVP for Ditch the Deck during Boston Tech Week on Wednesday, May 27. Free RSVP: https://lnkd.in/daSKUHHD If you're building at the intersection of AI and user experience, pitch us at FoundersEdge. We review every pitch submitted on our website, no warm intro needed!

This agent took me less than an hour to build and already saved me hours of sleep! It wakes me up only when some service is seriously down and deals with small hiccups all on its own! Inkbox + Hermes Agent is truly overpowered! https://inkbox.ai/ https://lnkd.in/eKZCUczm #AIAgents #Automation #DevTools #OnCallEngineer #HermesAgent

This agent took me less than an hour to build and already saved me hours of sleep! It wakes me up only when some service is seriously down and deals with small hiccups all on its own! Inkbox + Hermes Agent is truly overpowered! https://inkbox.ai/ https://lnkd.in/eKZCUczm #AIAgents #Automation #DevTools #OnCallEngineer #HermesAgent

Last week I took part in a hackathon in Boston Back Bay hosted by Inkbox and Cursor. We had 2.5 hours and one simple challenge: build an AI agent that makes people more productive. The event was pretty fun. I met a lot of great people and witnessed some interesting ideas being submitted and demo'ed. This was also my first time working with Inkbox. It was crazy how it lets you create agents with their own identity, like an email inbox or even a phone number. That opens up some very real use cases. I spent more than half the time just thinking about what would actually be useful. Towards the end, I thought it'll be cool to build an agentic support system for cursorboston.com and I went ahead with it. I used Firecrawl to crawl the website and answer user queries Try to handle most support tickets automatically Escalate serious issues by emailing the right people through Inkbox The next step would be adding calling for high priority cases. I did not get time to build that, but it would make the system much more powerful. There were real judges and AI judges to evaluate everyone's work - and the AI thought my project was cool and I ended up being one of the winners :) Huge shoutout to Ray Liao and Roger Hunt for hosting the event! Looking forward for more :)

Last night we hosted our first hackathon in Boston Back Bay — 2.5 hours, one challenge: build an AI agent that makes you more productive. What people shipped in that window was genuinely impressive: - Blake Mauri built a market validation agent that spins up personas, creates landing pages, and sends emails to test demand — fully automated. - Rishab Nandi came in with PLMBR already live: 600k home service providers in the pipeline, now using Inkbox for automated outreach at scale. - Adhithyan Aravind developed a career agent that finds roles based on your CV and handles outreach via Inkbox. - Aaron Grace created Primespace, an AI social network. - Manthan Admane built LegitReach.com, which aggregates your notifications and surfaces who actually deserves a follow-up. - Michael R. Schulte built ink-pdf.streamlit.app — upload a PDF and get beautifully annotated notes emailed back to you. - Brad Egan uses AI to digest Reddit and emails you only what you'd care about. - Sikes McRae built agents that find low-rated businesses and send targeted outreach emails. - Monica Phang, CFA built a markerless motion capture tool for physical therapy. - Jack D. shipped Context Surgeon, which lets agents edit their own context window. - Sebastian Wallkötter, Ph.D. built a wiki creation tool for agents. - Paramjeet Singh created a social graph that tracks your conversations with people over time, with agents layered on top. We had 100+ registrants but had to cap it at 50. We'll try to host more events in the future — join our Discord to stay in touch: https://lnkd.in/e8ZRwywK Special thanks to Andre Kirby, Ashish Bhatia, Michael Boensel, Roger Hunt, Vasilis Tsolis, and Youssef Rezkalla for your support. Boston is one of the most underrated builder hubs right now. Alex Wilcox Dima Vremenko Inkbox