Macro
unified system for email, chat, tasks, docs, agents (AGPL/Rust)
Details
- External ID
- 48546561
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Macro
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4952185792349727
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey HN! We're launching Macro (macro.com) — an open source, AI-native system that unifies email, chat, tasks, calls, docs, and CRM in one interface with shared memory.Before Macro, we ran our startup on Superhuman + Slack + Notion + HubSpot + Linear. Each of these apps are good but they don't talk to each other, they're proprietary and closed off. We wanted one unified system, open source, with shared memory, that we could build our company around.Macro is built to be modular and fast. It's designed to be your command center, your operating system. There's still a lot left to do.We're currently working on CRM, Pull Requests / GH integration, and making Macro even more extensible. You can self-host or use the hosted version. Pls let me know what you think! You can open a PR on the repo or leave feedback here and we'll work on it.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI email agents and deliverability
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- unified communication and automation platform with agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No A high-performance unified communication and CRM platform written in Rust with local-first shared memory, real-time sync, and multi-protocol integration demands massive engineering effort.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a Rust backend handling complex IMAP/SMTP/JMAP sync, Matrix/Slack protocol integrations, CRDT-based offline-first local state storage (e.g., SQLite or custom embedded engine), and custom vector indexing for context memory. The hard parts are maintaining robust distributed state synchronization across devices, managing flaky third-party email/chat provider APIs at scale, and high-concurrency memory safety. This requires experienced systems and distributed systems engineers.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 11 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #6 of 12 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 82 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.