Hi, I’m Phalgun. I make CMDK. It’s a laptop, a lot of coffee, and me, usually somewhere in Asia or Latin America, working on CMDK every day. I built CMDK because I wanted Gmail to be fast, and I was tired of renting a separate $30 a month app to do what Gmail should already do on its own. Thousands of businesses use Gmail with CMDK every day.

I used Superhuman for over 3 years. It was good but it was also thirty dollars a month for a handful of keyboard shortcuts and a snappier interface. I questioned its value for money every time I opened it. But the bigger problem was going back to Gmail. I was addicted to the Superhuman workflow and hotkeys.

So I built CMDK. It is a browser extension that lives inside Gmail and makes it work like Superhuman. A command bar, snooze, read receipts, split inbox, snippets, follow up reminders, simpler Gmail, and about eighty shortcuts, all while paying about $5 a month.

Most email tools now are just a wrapper around AI. CMDK is not that. I am not trying to read your email or write it for you. I just want to help you get through the inbox and close it.

A bit about me

I’m an engineer. Before this I spent years as a product manager taking things from zero to one, in SaaS, productivity, fintech, and creator economy. I have tried basically every productivity app ever shipped, including the one you are thinking of right now.

Outside of work I mostly like to wander and indulge in side quests. I like staying in a place long enough to be recognized at the corner grocery shop. I want to understand what daily life feels like in different parts of the world and hold it up against my own country and my past experiences. My most recent side quests made me a certified barista (for whatever it’s worth) and spent a month in Thailand learning Muay Thai.

I’m building a life and a small business, that let me keep doing all of this. And CMDK is a big part of it all.