What's up, everyone?

This is Cortland from NDHackers.com, and you're listening to the IndieHackers podcast.

On this show, I talked to the founders of profitable internet businesses,

and I try to get a sense of what it's like to be in their shoes.

How do they get to where they are today?

How do they make decisions, both at their companies and in their personal lives? And what exactly makes your businesses tick? Today I'm talking to Christine Spang, the co-founder and CTO of a very cool company called Nylas. Christine, welcome to the show and thanks for joining me. Hey, Cortland. Thanks so much for inviting me to be in the show. I've heard about indie hackers for a long time,

so it's a real honor to actually be on the show.

And I've heard about Nylis for a long time,

and I was actually a user of your desktop-based email application back in the day.

Oh, wow. Super cool.

Yeah. So can you explain to us what Nylis is and how it works?

Yeah, so the basic gist of Nialis is that email has been around for a really long time,

and it's essentially the lingua franca of business.

When people are talking between different organizations, they're communicating, they're organizing,

collaboration, meetings, sharing documents, all sorts of things

like that. They do it through email. And yet, because email's been around for so long, it's been around for

about 50 years longer than the web itself, it's become really hard to develop with over time. It's a

global distributed system that has many different client's server implementations.

And while there are open protocols for working with email, because there are so many different

implementations, there is a lot of kind of edge cases and complexity that you have to deal with.

So we built Nylis in order to drastically simplify the experience of developing software that works with email.

So the basic product is a modern rest API that allows you to connect to any email mailbox, as well as anyone's calendar and address book, all through one really simple API.

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