Let me tell you something about email. Email is the oldest, most reliable technology I use every single dayâand also the one that makes me want to throw my laptop out the window. It's like that one LDR friend who still uses a Navi for directions. It works, but only barely.
I've been building UnisoftBox to fix the three things about email that drive me absolutely insane. Let me break them down.
The first problem: I can't block people.
On my phone, if I get a text from a spammer, I hit "block" and done. They're gone forever. But email? Email doesn't work like that. Gmail will kindly toss unwanted messages into the spam folder and call it a dayâit won't actually stop the sender from emailing me again. I want to see who emailed me, decide I never want to hear from them again, and block them the same way I'd block a phone number. Like, permanently. Sixth-floor-window permanently.
The second problem: I can't create addresses fast enough.
Every time I register on a new siteâan online store, a newsletter, a random free-trial service I'll forget about in a weekâI'm basically handing my main email address to a stranger who will sell my inbox to the highest bidder. What I want is to spin up a fresh email address in seconds per site. Signing up for five sites? Give me five throwaway addresses. And when one of them starts getting flooded with "PAYMENT ISSUE" spam? Delete it. Goodbye. It's like a smartphone's burner-number feature, but for email.
The third problem: email doesn't talk to anything.
My inbox is full of informationâreceipts, confirmations, notificationsâbut I have to manually deal with every single one. I want to be able to send or forward any email to another application, whether that's my own tool or an AI, so it can be processed and automated. Get an invoice? Forward it, and it logs itself. Get a press release? Forward it, and it gets summarized. The inbox shouldn't be a dead end. It should be the start of a workflow.
And that's exactly what UnisoftBox is becoming.
Block senders like they're spam calls. Generate and delete email addresses on demand. Route your emails into any app or AI to automate the boring stuff. It's the email experience smartphones and modern apps should have given us years ago.
Right now I'm still in the development phaseâwhich is a fancy way of saying I'm the only one using it. And honestly? That's kind of the point. I get to use it hard, break it myself, and tailor-fit every feature to what actually annoys me before anyone else gets their hands on it. My inbox is my lab, and I'm the guinea pig.
When it's ready for the public, you'll be the first to know. Until then, if your email also makes you want to scream, congratulationsâyou're not alone. There's a fix coming.