// built to vanish

we make inboxes that show up when you need them and disappear when you don't.

disposable, programmable email for people who read headers.

vanishing envelope motif

// the drawer of shame

a small papercut, ten thousand times.

Every developer has the same drawer of shame: a dozen test inboxes, half of them shared, all cluttered with “verify your account” emails from six months ago.

You sign up, alt-tab to your inbox, squint for the 6-digit code, paste it before it expires, and do it again on the next test run.

ephemail started with one stubborn belief: receiving a test email should be as easy as making an HTTP request. No new mailbox. No shared QA account with a password taped to a Slack channel. No screenshots of codes. Just an address that exists the moment you need it and disappears the moment you don't.

inbox · qa+3f9c@ephemail.dev
auth@acme.ionow
your verification code
code: 4 8 2 9 1 7
login@vercel.comnow
magic link inside
https://vercel.com/auth?t=…
noreply@stripe.comnow
receipt for $0.00 test charge
test mode
retention: 24hlive

// what we believe

three principles, not a feature list.

ephemeral_by_default

data you don't keep can't leak. inboxes expire, messages clear, nothing lingers longer than it has to.

built_for_automation

rest api, realtime delivery, wait-for-message, webhooks, sdks. the best test inbox is one your code can drive.

privacy_by_architecture

sandboxed rendering, hashed keys, tenant isolation, short retention. safety is a default, not a toggle.

// who it's for

the kind of people who read headers for fun.

qa engineers automating signup & verification flows

developers building login, 2fa, and magic-link systems

teams who need a sane shared place for test mail

anyone who wants a throwaway address that won't follow them home

// founder note

amine gharby

“I built ephemail because I was tired of fighting my own inbox to ship software. The same papercut kept showing up: waiting on email I couldn't control.

ephemail is the tool I wished existed — fast, private, and made for the terminal, not the marketing calendar. If it saves you the drawer of shame, it's doing its job.”

amine gharby, founder, ephemail

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stop screenshotting verification codes.