Show HN: Loop Email – Work smarter with your team on email

Hi HN!

After 3 years of development, we are presenting Loop Email. We launched it first on Product Hunt a couple of weeks ago and it finished in the top 5 products of the day.

We think that there are smarter ways of working together. It just seems like no matter how many different collaborative apps companies test - they always have to go back to their inbox to deal with the important things.

Are you familiar with this?

- a client reaches out to you on email

- you exchange a bunch of emails to define the project

- you open projects and chat in other apps like Slack or Asana and Trello

- then you exchange a bunch of emails again with the client until the project is done

It’s a mess.

What if using other apps we could just improve how we collaborate on email?

That’s why we worked on developing an app that is able to bring the lovable collaboration experience back to email. We call it Loop Email and its main experience enables people to be able to resolve any email on the spot with Loops: internal side chats.

The app is available on mobile for iOS and Windows and MAC OS for desktop and already has more than 40.000 registered users and is FREE to use for now.

Here is a short video on how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCp4sFP9OwQ&t=8s

How do you guys feel about the way you collaborate in your companies? Do you still communicate a lot over email? Would this help you solve your problem? We’re really interested in HN’s feedback.

Thanks!

As I discovered on the webpage, the app supports Gmail, Exchange, Office 365. For me personally a deal braker, since many of old school users like myself prefer Hotmail or Yahoo, which globally speaking also belong to the most common ones. Another thing not clearly stated is the support of IMAP or POP3 as many mails are also ran through it. Ever planning on adding these mentioned clients?

Really interesting app and approach to using email. Curious about Loops – what are the benefits of it?

Great question, thanks. We approached the collaboration problem from a different angle than Slack. We believe email will never go away - and there can't be an app that will completely kill it. But there could be an app that can change it.

What email is missing now is what people love in collaboration apps like Slack or Trello. Real-time chat. The option of having team discussions. Being able to control who you want to be disturbed by and who needs to be muted...all this stuff is missing on email currently and we've built an app that allows you to do all that within your inbox.

Rather than building a new app for the collaboration problem, we've changed the experience where the problem started initially - on email. Loop is an attempt to help employees work efficiently on email with their colleagues.

Astro shutting down is not a big deal afterall. New game players are just around the corner. The app looks pretty neat, will dive in.