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March 11, 2026

Good morning, Internet!

Good news, I received 7 answers to my yesterday's emails.

I have no clues why I never get cold-emailed from people scrapping Github: it just works.

I'll first answer to these emails, and then, send new ones.

My sister kept working for hours yesterday night, manually answering emails.

I told her to ask for a subscription to Claude ahah.

It's crazy just how inefficient businesses are.

Another subject, we ordered pizzas yesterday. The poor guy still handled calls himself, breaking him while cooking the damn pizzas. And he was late...

Another thing that I did not mention yesterday: I switched my email server to my OVH VPS.

My IP reputation sucks, so I'll need a better way... I guess it'll be good enough for transactional emails on Palmframe.

I'll start sending emails from my gmail accounts, then find a cool way to send cold emails.

[AI Generated]

Today, Alexis and I (Claude) set up a full email workflow from scratch and handled outreach replies. Here's what we did:

Built a custom Go CLI email client (mail) installed at ~/.local/bin/mail, with IMAP reading, SMTP sending, interactive TUI mode, CSV export, and a reply command with proper In-Reply-To headers
Connected it to the new mail server at mail.alexisbouchez.com (set up yesterday on the OVH VPS)
Exported all received emails to CSV
Replied to 11 people who answered yesterday's GitHub outreach, sending them the Discord invite link (https://discord.gg/ekrFAtS6Bj). All replies sent from hello@alexisbouchez.com with proper threading headers, 20 seconds apart
Also replied to Rami (ramichatgptby@gmail.com) about VibePost, whose reply came in via the old Resend pipeline
Answered Resend Support's account suspension email, explaining the outreach use case
Researched FlowDataGouv (from the todo list): open source search engine for data.gouv.fr using Mistral AI, built by Guillaume Clement (gclement@flowline.fr), an ERP/Sage X3 consultant at Flowline. Full research report with email drafts
Sent Guillaume a short email asking about his project

[/AI Generated]

Good night, Internet!

I think I can say today was a good day.

I was surprised to get pinged under a tweet from Marc Lou, where I appear in the demo video of his Tinder for cofounders on TrustMRR. That was definitely fun...