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Yeah, Mailbox app used this prior to it's Dropbox acquisition. Mailbox is now a dead product. RIP.
Why would Dropbox (note: not remotely an email service) acquire Mailbox and then kill it?
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I'm sorry if it came across as manipulative. One of the reasons for having it like this is also so it can give me a metric on who in the waiting list are most interested in the program. And of course also to offer an incentive to share it.
A different option I'd suggest that will likely provide higher engagement/response rate is putting some kind of a 1-to-5 star or 1-to-10 ranking - something quick for the user to click (or ignore) - simply asking them "How interested or excited are you about this product?" Re: Incentive to share it - Just build a good to amazing product - which the comments and upvotes you have on HN are already significant proof of…
Also: If you can't spare Max 300MB ram and you are complaining on HN wtf computer do you use?
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I'm sorry if it came across as manipulative. One of the reasons for having it like this is also so it can give me a metric on who in the waiting list are most interested in the program. And of course also to offer an incentive to share it.
I'm extremely interested.. Me sharing it with other people is a poor way of measuring my enthusiasm.. I'm not going to share it until I've tried it, so that I can vouch for its quality.
No offense but unless it’s a 1st party client email clients are something that is very hard to trust. Who controls your client has access to your inbox with most services even the few that have separate IMAP/POP3 passwords like Hushmail can be compromised through it. If your client also integrates with encryption or worse takes charge of it my encryption key is also now at risk. Lastly since email today is pure HTML…
This seems an odd position to me.
Online clients are well known to be scanning your emails, necessarily involve giving access and control to third parties, are impossible to use while retaining control of private encryption keys, and so on.
Local clients might have some of those problems. If they're open source then in theory you could audit them and find out, but in practice even that gives a false sense of security because no-one has the resources and willingness to undertake that work every time they install a new version.
Ultimately software security is still all about who you trust, the same as always.
I find it crazy that everyone is harping on Electron instead of the cool features that this clearly has that most clients do not. Demo looked pretty polished dude. Don't let the typical HN crowd rain on your parade. The fact that you posted an actual product out to the public is more than most can say. Also: If you can't spare Max 300MB ram and you are complaining on HN wtf computer do you use?
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