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Nylas
Company blog · nylas.com/blog · on HN as flyingclimberprogrammingweb
Nylas is the company blog at nylas.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2015, 91 different Hacker News readers have linked it 245 times, most often “Nylas N1, an extensible and open source mail app”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN links Nylas pages for the open-source N1 email client, its email, calendar and contacts API docs and pricing, and recurring job posts. Comments do not judge its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Nylas API lets you integrate with 250+ email, calendar and meeting providers (including Gmail, Microsoft, IMAP, Zoom and others) in 5 minutes. We also provide agent accounts for giving unique identities to your AI Agents under the same API platform.
Most-linked posts?
- Nylas N1, an extensible and open source mail app9 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2015-05-21
- /6 people · 35 mentions · first linked 2015-12-14
- /jobs6 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2015-05-01
- /6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-04-29
- N1 – The extensible, open source mail client6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2015-12-01
- N1 – The extensible, open source mail client5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-10-06
- Nylas N1 – The extensible, open source mail app3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-07-28
- How We Deploy Python Code3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-07-09
- /cloud3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-01-12
- Nylas N1: The extensible, open source mail client3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-10-07
What Hacker News says?
I'm holding off my downvote to see if i can get a straight answer out of you. Nylas Mail bills itself as the best email app. Them's strong words, but maybe you're worth the claim? Let's see! I see from screenshots that Nylas has folders and labels. Can i use either of these in the following fashion? - i can have a tree structure of them - an email can be in two separate folders/labels at the same time - folders/labe…
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on “Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)”Submitted Nylas N1 – extensible open-source mail client as a story · 413 points
HN discussionNylas | San Francisco | Engineer | Full-time | On site We're building a new email platform here at Nylas. Over 30TB of data, AWS stack built on top of Python & Flask. Front end stack on ElectronJS, and React. Looking for engineers who love tough scaling challenges, open source, and working with lots of data. * Infrastructure - https://jobs.lever.co/nylas/2acf52e8-54b1-4593-b269-3e7f64a4... * NodeJS - https://jobs.le…
Comment linking /blog/growing-up-with-mysql/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted How We Deploy Python Code as a story · 250 points
HN discussionSorry, didn't see the reply. You want a web app as close to native? Look no further - https://www.nylas.com/download , source https://github.com/nylas/nylas-mail .
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on “How to get your first 100k active users”Submitted Profiling Python in Production as a story · 177 points
HN discussionIt's here: https://nylas.com/pricing And you can read our blog post about announcing the pricing: https://nylas.com/blog/nylas-pro/ We haven't yet shipped the version which allows you to upgrade, but it's coming shortly.
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on “Electron 1.0 is here”Submitted Sunsetting Nylas Mail Development as a story · 129 points
HN discussionNylas | San Francisco & NYC | Full-time | ONSITE | https://www.nylas.com/jobs/ The Nylas Cloud API makes it an order of magnitude easier for companies to add email, calendar, & contact integration to their applications. By being at the core of business to business communication, scheduling, & contacts we believe we can shape the future of how people work. We’re hiring senior engineers to help us scale & build new pr…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted Secrets to Great API Design (2019) as a story · 96 points
HN discussionNylas | https://nylas.com/ | San Francisco, CA (Mission) | Frontend (JS), Backend (Systems+Ops) _ _ _ | \ | | | | | \| |_ _| | __ _ ___ | . ` | | | | |/ _` / __| | |\ | |_| | | (_| \__ \ \_| \_/\__, |_|\__,_|___/ __/ | |___/ Hi! We're Nylas and we're looking for help building the next generation email platform. We're building a missing piece of Internet infrastructure and are looking for frontend application enginee…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted Growing up with MySQL: How we scaled our primary datastore as a story · 39 points
HN discussionNylas | https://nylas.com/ | San Francisco, CA (Soma) | Frontend (JS), Backend (Systems+Ops) Hi! We're Nylas. We build N1, the extensible, open source email client, and the infrastructure powering it. We're looking for fronted application engineers (React, Electron, JS), designers, backend systems engineers, & infrastructure/operations engineers. We recently launched N1, have accumulated over 16K stars on GitHub, an…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted The deceptively complex world of RRULEs as a story · 38 points
HN discussionNylas | San Francisco, NYC | Full-time | ONSITE | https://www.nylas.com/jobs/ The Nylas Cloud API makes it an order of magnitude easier for companies to add email, calendar, and contacts integrations to their applications. By being at the core of business to business communication, scheduling, and contacts, we believe we can shape the future of how people work. We’re hiring senior engineers to help us scale and buil…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted PGP and Nylas as a story · 32 points
HN discussionIf you look on this page it talks about the mail being hosted on their servers: https://nylas.com/N1/faq
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on “Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox”Submitted Nylas Pro as a story · 29 points
HN discussionI went from Sparrow to Mailbox to Airmail. Sparrow was the best for its time. Mailbox had potential but was riddled with bugs. Airmail doesn't have the cleanest interface nor all the coolest features, but it's the best option I've found at the moment. For iOS I am still using Mailbox, but I guess now I have to use something else, will probably give the Gmail client a go. One OSX client I've just found that I'm hopin…
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on “Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox”Submitted Building Plugins for React Apps – Techniques for modular JavaScript applications as a story · 22 points
HN discussionIf you're a desktop email aficionado, I'd love to hear your feedback on N1. It's kind of similar to Mailbox desktop, but works cross-platform and is open source. https://nylas.com/n1 (Also feel free to write me directly. mg@nylas.com)
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on “Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox”Submitted Building Plugins for React Apps as a story · 21 points
HN discussionHey there-- I work at Nylas. We've structured our business to... actually have a business. Our team spent the first year selling APIs to developers [1] which already power lots of paid apps. The N1 mail app we released two months ago[2] follows this and will have paid features next year. Plus both are open source free software, and quite popular on GitHub. [3] [1] https://nylas.com/features/ [2] https://nylas.com/n1…
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on “Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox”Submitted Profiling Python in Production as a story · 20 points
HN discussionNylas.com | Full time | San Francisco | Onsite ~ but we'll help you relocate Do you like writing open source code as your craft? Want to work on something that impacts every single person on the internet but isn't creepy? Nylas.com is hiring Engineers and SRE's to build beautiful products using EMAIL as its base. If you like ownership, steady customers, and a challenge of building then please reach out to me persona…
Comment linking /jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted Graduating Past Playbooks – How to Use Ansible When Your Infrastructure Grows Up as a story · 16 points
HN discussionNylas | San Francisco | Engineer | Full-time | On site We're building a new email platform here at Nylas. Over 30TB of data, AWS stack built on top of Python & Flask. Front end stack on ElectronJS, and React. Looking for engineers who love tough scaling challenges, open source, and working with lots of data. * Infrastructure - https://jobs.lever.co/nylas/2acf52e8-54b1-4593-b269-3e7f64a4... * NodeJS - https://jobs.le…
Comment linking /blog/growing-up-with-mysql/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Submitted Step-by-step guide to build a slackbot to schedule items on your calendar as a story · 14 points
HN discussionNylas | San Francisco, New York, Denver, Toronto, Amsterdam | U.S. Remote-OK | https://www.nylas.com Our mission is to empower the world to communicate with context and insight. The Nylas Cloud APIs powers email, calendar, and contacts features in SaaS products ranging from CRM and marketing automation to recruiting tools, scheduling assistants, legal and real estate platforms, and more. The Nylas email API integrat…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted Open Source Python Flame Chart and How to Reduce CPU Usage by 80% as a story · 10 points
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