Devin · Cognition
Build a small app that lists important emails still waiting for a reply
A venture investor who switched CRMs missed its unanswered-emails view, so he had Devin rebuild it on top of Gmail. Devin wrote and deployed most of it, but he had to write the login part himself.
What they did
He asked for a tool that pulls emails from the Gmail primary inbox and shows the important ones he has not answered, with an Ignore button saved to a database. Devin read Google's developer docs on its own, wrote the filtering logic and a simple front end, tested it and deployed it to a public link. It stalled on Gmail sign-in for about an hour, so he wrote that piece himself with another tool.
How it went
The poster says the email filtering and front end worked and were live after roughly a long night of work, while the database and Ignore feature were still in progress when he wrote the post.
Worth knowing
One person, one side project, written in late 2024 when Devin was much younger. He found it slow on some steps, such as an hour on a database setup he could do in ten minutes, and concluded it was not yet a technical co-founder.
Try it with Devin
Build a small private web app that connects to my <email provider> inbox with read-only access and lists emails from the last <number> days that look important and that I have not replied to. Show sender, subject and date, and add an Ignore button that saves to <database>. Do not send, delete or move any email. Tell me before you set up any login or account, and walk me through each step.
Swap the parts in angle brackets for your own details. This prompt is adapted from the case, not copied from the original.
What this label means: User story
Someone using it at work posted about it. Any numbers are theirs, so we write "the poster says".
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