Show HN: I got tired of granting mailbox access to trigger workflows by email
The developer built a tool to trigger workflows via email without granting full mailbox access, solving a common frustration with email-based automation.
Background
EmailConnect lets you connect your email inbox to webhooks, AI tools, and no-code platforms so you can trigger workflows directly from incoming emails — without giving a third-party service full access to your mailbox. The project was built by an indie developer who was frustrated with the security and privacy risks of granting mailbox-level permissions just to forward emails to a webhook or a Zapier-like automation. It turns the email address itself into an API endpoint: you send an email to a unique address, and EmailConnect parses it and sends the data (subject, body, attachments, sender) to a URL or service of your choice. The service is hosted, but the author also open-sourced the code on GitHub for self-hosters.