A daily reading ritual,
not another inbox.

I’m Alexandru. I build calm, restrained software from Romania. Avocabo is the project I’ve been working on quietly between writing code for other people’s products.

Why this exists.

I subscribe to about thirty newsletters. On a good week I read four of them. The rest pile up as unread badges, then guilt, then a mass-delete every six months. Newsletters were supposed to be the calm part of the internet — the considered, slow-cooked essays you read with coffee. Instead they became another feed to fall behind on.

Avocabo is the middle ground I wanted: read the writers I care about, in fifteen minutes, then close the email and get on with the day.

What it isn’t.

Not a feed reader. Not a second brain. Not a notes app. Not an unread counter. Not a referral game. Not a streak. There are wonderful tools that do all of those things — Avocabo is deliberately not one of them.

The principles.

• Delivery, not storage. We send you one good email. We don’t build you another inbox to maintain.
• Read-only access. We never modify, move, delete, or send from your inbox. We can’t even if we wanted to — the OAuth scope doesn’t allow it.
• One email a day. Always at the same time. If you don’t want it, you unsubscribe in one click and we delete your account.
• No growth hacks. No referrals, no streaks, no leaderboards, no queue positions. Waitlist access is granted in small batches because each new reader gets attention.
• Honest pricing. A free tier that stays free. Paid tiers when you need more newsletters or longer digests. No hidden caps, no surge pricing, no “limit reached” popups dressed up as features.

Where it lives.

Avocabo runs on European infrastructure (Hetzner servers, Falkenstein), deployed through self-hosted Coolify. GDPR applies. The full list of what we collect and why lives in the Privacy Policy — the summary is: a waitlist email and an optional note about why you signed up. That’s all, for now.

Get in touch.

I read every email. If you have a question, a bug report, a newsletter you wish we covered, or a polite disagreement — write to me at [email protected].

If you want to follow what’s shipping, the roadmap is public and updated by hand.