MailCatch
Email testing API with auto OTP extraction and long polling
Details
- External ID
- 1245836
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- MailCatch
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- API, Software Engineering, Developer Tools
- Fetched at
- Sept. 11, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 11, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
Description
MCatch is an email testing API built for automated testing and CI/CD pipelines. Create temporary inboxes via REST API, send emails to them, and retrieve messages — including auto-extracted OTP codes. Key features: - Auto OTP/verification code extraction - Long polling /wait endpoint (no more flaky sleep() calls) - Works with Playwright, Cypress, Python, Java, cURL - Free tier: 50 inboxes/month, no credit card - Paid plans from $10/mo
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI email agents and deliverability
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- email testing api with otp extraction
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The product is a developer-facing REST API backed by inbound email webhooks (such as AWS SES), Redis for pub/sub long-polling, and regex parsing for OTP codes.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #5 of 35 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 274 days after the earliest competitor.
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- TempEmailfree · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- OTPStream · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- EmailWarmup · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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