Getting access

bin’s hosted plan is invite-only right now. There is no self-serve signup yet, so you get in by claiming a one-time invite. Prefer to run it yourself? See self-hosting below.

Claim your invite

Whoever runs your bin sends you an invite link (or a short code). It is good once and expires after 72 hours.

1. Open the invite link on your iPhone with the bin app installed.
2. Confirm the email address shown is yours, then tap Set up my inbox.
3. That is it. The app configures itself: your personal capture address and an API token are provisioned for you. You never paste a URL, a token, or a secret.

If you have a code instead of a link, tap Have a code? Enter it on the claim screen and type it in.

Invites are single-use, so a reinstall cannot replay the original. If you need to set up again, ask for a fresh invite. You land back in the same account with the same inbox and history, not a duplicate.

What you get

• A capture address like mellow-otter-7fb2@withbin.com. Forward or auto-forward mail to it and the message becomes an item. See email capture.
• An API token for the app itself. To capture from scripts or agents, mint a separate labeled token from Settings → Connect an agent (see API & agents).

Self-hosting

bin runs entirely on Cloudflare (Workers, D1, R2, Queues), so you can host your own free instance and keep your data on your own account.

The single-user self-host edition is open source under the MIT license at github.com/jonomatusky/bin-selfhost. Clone it, run npm run setup to provision D1, R2, and the queue, then deploy to your own Cloudflare account. Both hosted and self-hosted are single-user: your inbox, not a team workspace.