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LLMs have got darn good with writing code. Vibe coding (stupid term imo) or not, most people are getting assistance for writing code. I concur that writing code is not the most important thing in B2B but it surely makes hell of a difference for technical product.

For example, take a company that does contract management software. Common functionality is upload document, eSign, validate signature, and chain of record, integration with other tools where documents might be hosted.

When I reach out to people to validate ideas like this, I basically get no people to respond. They already have a solution or they are not interested. Michael Siebel talks about finding people whose hair are on fire and people who are early adopters for startups. I dont have network such as YC or others.

How do you validate ideas and get started for situation like this? Where do you find people to talk to that are early adopters and might be willing to give you feedback or their money?

Curious to know how has your outlook has changed with advent of LLMs?

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I've been thinking about this over the past few days - If AI is as capable as people here claim - enough to replace junior or intermediate developers - could it be used to maintain semi-abandoned open-source projects?

There is a fair number of abandoned OSS with 1 or 2 major issues that prevent them from continuing to work and isn't too difficult to fix - just requires time. If users pooled context (issues, code, docs) and tokens, I'm inclined to believe an AI agent could resolve them.

Here's an example: hydroxide [0] is a ProtonMail to IMAP/SMTP bridge that no longer works due to upstream API changes [1]. Working implementations are available, just in a different language [2]. All an AI would have to do is reference the current implementation and the alternative implementation, then migrate over to the new API format. Perhaps use an mitmproxy MCP to verify that the requests made are identical. Overall, not a very difficult problem and I can probably do it myself given a few days.

Human engineering hours are quite expensive though and for such a low value task, I would assume an AI agent would be more cost effective.

Is anyone working on a similar problem/premise?

[0] https://github.com/emersion/hydroxide [1] https://github.com/emersion/hydroxide/issues/304 [2] https://github.com/opulentfox-29/protonmail-api-client/blob/master/src/protonmail/client.py

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Hi HN,

I’m Rem, a solo founder, and I just launched Lumail (https://lumail.ai) – an autonomous AI agent that lives in your Gmail inbox. It reads full email threads, pulls in context from your past conversations, checks your Google Drive files or uploaded docs, and takes action: labels emails, drafts replies, or skips when it makes sense.

Why I built it? I was tired of manually handling repetitive support and operations emails – tracking orders, answering the same questions, digging through past threads. I didn’t want an assistant I had to prompt. I wanted an agent that understood context and acted on its own.

What it does:

- Monitors your Gmail inbox using official OAuth - Reads entire threads to understand context before acting - Uses your Google Drive docs or uploaded files as its knowledge base - Drafts smart, customizable replies using with your prompt logic - Applies/removes labels to organize inbox as needed - Works autonomously in the background, with full auditability - Learns your writing style and tone

It’s a decision-making agent built for operators, founders, and support-heavy teams. You can fully customize prompts and see exactly what the agent does before sending anything.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

Thanks for checking it out!

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