Ask HN: Do we need another email service? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Do we need another email service?

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Post by a3n » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 2:36 PM UTC

cliveowen wrote: post #16

I don't think we need another email service. The backend stuff tends to be very complex and it would be a waste of time to reinvent the wheel. I do think there' s a lot of potential for improving the user experience on the client side, finding new ways to simplify and augment the current offering. Too bad the main player in this space (Gmail) doesn't offer the kind of API access needed for a deep integration, maybe i…

> I don't think we need another email service. The backend stuff tends to be very complex

Hmmm, there's an interesting idea for a business, Back End As a Service. You provide rock solid email back end, and your customers are email "providers" who distinguish themselves on features, price, charity, whatever, all of them using your back end services.

Re: Ask HN: Do we need another email service?

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Post by slashdotaccount » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 2:37 PM UTC

bmaeser wrote: post #10

yes we need another mailprovider, with all the killerfeatures of gmail: lots of storage / archive contacts / sync kalender / sync decent privacy/ encryption servers in EU i dont care about webmail/mailclient.

Try https://mailbox.org

Re: Ask HN: Do we need another email service?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 2:56 PM UTC

Ihmahr wrote: post #2

Yes, we do. I would pay for it if it is not ridiculously expensive (mykolab) and has decent privacy AND encryption. Servers in america == bad. That icelandic one from recently (forgot the name) I can not take too seriously, since they want to roll their own browser that will basically be a bad version of Tor browser and also some other stuff they want to build their selves.

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Re: Ask HN: Do we need another email service?

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Post by klimatika » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 4:04 PM UTC

Few years ago, there was email service called Zenbe. It was cool and ahead of time and I've seen it as only real competitor to gmail. But for some reason they got out of business (I don't remember why). Search for Zenbe and maybe you will find some clues.

Re: Ask HN: Do we need another email service?

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Post by austinstorm » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 4:47 PM UTC

Any innovation in email is welcome by me.

Re: Ask HN: Do we need another email service?

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Post by tim333 » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 4:58 PM UTC

I'd like a service that unifies my email with messages on other services I use eg facebook, Whatsapp, Linkedin, SMS etc so if I've been chatting about say going to Vietnam I can search for that in all sources. Maybe even posts on HN. Basically anything I write that people reply to.

Re: Ask HN: Do we need another email service?

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Post by MetaCosm » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 5:19 PM UTC

tim333 wrote: post #26

I'd like a service that unifies my email with messages on other services I use eg facebook, Whatsapp, Linkedin, SMS etc so if I've been chatting about say going to Vietnam I can search for that in all sources. Maybe even posts on HN. Basically anything I write that people reply to.

Yeah, the walled gardens are hellish. Makes it very hard to manage things... sadly, it is getting worse not better.

Re: Ask HN: Do we need another email service?

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Post by uberspot » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 7:21 PM UTC

It would be cool if besides privacy for users you contributed/used already existing open source mail related software. You know, follow the model of those companies that are based on and expand oss.

Re: Ask HN: Do we need another email service?

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Post by gregcohn » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 11:55 PM UTC

gregmorton wrote: post #18

I'll die for an emailbox where I could rearrange my mails on the fly.

I love this idea.

Re: Ask HN: Do we need another email service?

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Post by BWStearns » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 2:55 AM UTC

I might pay a buck a year for an email service that didn't serve ads, had a gmail-level quality and had solid privacy/security baked in. That said I tend to steer clear of the lavabit-esque providers who go out of their way to advertise their over-my-dead-body stance on handing over emails because it makes them a target and tends to make people associate you with paranoids (even if they are after you :)