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ParseForce – Turn emails into structured JSON and send them to webhooks

ParseForce – Turn emails into structured JSON and send them to webhooks

by nikola470·Mar 2, 2026·1 point·1 comment
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AI Analysis

●●SolidSolve My ProblemSlick

Replaces regex email parsing with AI + schema validation, but Zapier and Make already handle this.

Strengths
  • •Real pain point: email parsing is brittle, and many workflows still rely on it for invoices/orders/shipping
  • •Schema-first approach with AI suggestions is cleaner UX than manual regex rules or generic email extractors
  • •Webhook delivery + validation means clean integration into existing backends without custom parsing logic
Weaknesses
  • •Email parsing at scale is a solved category: Zapier, Make, and custom LLM agents already do this with broader integrations
  • •Unclear what differentiates ParseForce beyond 'email-specific'—no pricing, no free tier details, no traction evidence shown
Category
SaaS
Target Audience

Backend developers, automation engineers, finance/logistics teams processing structured email data

Similar To

Zapier · Make · n8n

Post Description

Hi HN,

I built ParseForce because parsing emails has always been surprisingly painful.

Many automation workflows still rely on incoming emails: invoices, order confirmations, shipping notifications, etc. The usual solutions involve fragile regex rules or Zapier-style email parsers that break when email formats change.

ParseForce takes a different approach.

You create a unique inbox and define the data you want to extract. Incoming emails are parsed using AI into structured JSON and delivered to your webhook.

Example workflow:

Email received → ParseForce parses it → structured JSON → webhook to your backend.

Example output:

{ "invoiceNumber": "INV-84217", "items": [ { "name": "Valve kits", "quantity": 60 }, { "name": "Pressure regulators", "quantity": 20 } ], "total": 1284.50 }

Typical use cases:

* extracting invoice data * processing order confirmations * parsing shipping notifications * automating legacy email workflows

The goal was to make email integrations as simple as webhook integrations.

Stack:

* Node.js / TypeScript * PostgreSQL * AI-based schema parsing * webhook delivery system

I’d love feedback from the HN community.

Site: https://parseforce.io

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