Oh man this looks great, thanks Joey! I just made a couple of feature requests, Bundles and Mass Archive. But the whole thing looks and feels great, I'm super excited about it. Let me know when you support multiple accounts and I'll happily drop you some cash (for silly reasons I have a few accounts, and i'm not eager to juggle multiple clients).
Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
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Re: Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
#12Maybe it's obvious to others but I didn't really know what you were selling until the first FAQ. Maybe you need a strapline something like "a new way to work with your Google Mail". I thought it was perhaps an independent MUA app (and assumed it was going to be Mac only, because of the name).
When I first arrived on the page I clicked your first call to action button, which takes one to a Google login, but backed out because I hadn't a clue at that point what it was.
Looks like "a front-end to gmail using Google's API", I guess you need to put that in non-tech speak.
Re: Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
#13Oh man this looks great, thanks Joey! I just made a couple of feature requests, Bundles and Mass Archive. But the whole thing looks and feels great, I'm super excited about it. Let me know when you support multiple accounts and I'll happily drop you some cash (for silly reasons I have a few accounts, and i'm not eager to juggle multiple clients).
You are an absolute legend! Thank you!
I've reviewed them.. and let me just say... YES!
YES, I will add mass archive functionality. YES, I will work on bundles for Darwin Mail. YES, multiple accounts are on the horizon.
I'm so happy you like DarwinMail. I completely understand your use case, I can relate to you, my man.
I'm open to any and all suggestions for features/improvements! https://www.darwinmail.app/feedback.php
Re: Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you so very much for the interest! You are exactly right there! It's about 30% cheaper to purchase the yearly plan and it has all of the same features. https://www.darwinmail.app/#pricing Do you think there is a need for two plan? (with one of better value like on DarwinMail) or Maybe two different tiers with different features and pricing? What are your thoughts?
Calling the monthly and yearly pricing different tiers is confusing and not customary. I would just call it Pro and then say "$2/month (yearly, or 3$/month monthly)" or something like that. Check out some other SaaS pricing pages on how they do it :-) If you want to simplify, you can also just offer the monthly billing option for now, as the $1 difference is not that big anyways and it's less confusing for folks (in…
You are so right. Spot on in fact. Thank you for the tip.
I will change that asap. It's too confusing.
Sorry, but there should be a difference of $22 to purchase the yearly plan (which saves $11 - oh I see you meant to type $11 not $1). Yes, perhaps it's not that much of a difference, but it can add up :)
As regards the mobile app, Darwin Mail is currently mobile responsive to it looks and works great on your tablet or mobile. I know it's not the same though. May I ask, why do you prefer a native app over a responsive web app?
Re: Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
#15Looks cool! Any plans for pinning and bundling/one click archiving entire bundles? Those two features are what I miss most since getting kicked off Inbox.
Re: Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
#16Looks nice but currently does no more than I can already achieve with a new skin on Gmail. (I'm using http://flowapps.co/inboxtheme/ )
I know it's been mentioned elsewhere but Inbox Bundles are pretty much the main reason Inbox was a superior client.
Since being forced back to Gmail it's the only thing I've missed and I've had to revert back to old email discipline (daily clearouts and ruthless unsubscribing) to get over it's loss.
Re: Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
#17Maybe it's obvious to others but I didn't really know what you were selling until the first FAQ. Maybe you need a strapline something like "a new way to work with your Google Mail". I thought it was perhaps an independent MUA app (and assumed it was going to be Mac only, because of the name). When I first arrived on the page I clicked your first call to action button, which takes one to a Google login, but backed out…
No no anything that's not completely obvious to everyone who visits needs to be changed. Thank you for your feedback.
I've thought about what you said (albeit very quickly) and made changes to the homepage https://www.darwinmail.app/index.php
The homepage subtitle: "Your Google Inbox replacement: reach new levels of productivity."
And a below the hero image: "An evolutionary way to work with your emails." - I think I can expand on this one.. any ideas?
Re: Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
#18Quick bug report for you. If you have a category name with a '/' in it, jquery errors out due to $('#sideBar #' + prettyLabelName) having a / in it, which makes it think it's a selector. If you change all instances of $('#sideBar #' + prettyLabelName) to $('#sideBar #' + $.escapeSelector(prettyLabelName)), it should rectify that. As it stands now, if you have a category with a / in it the site is unusable; and the same would probably be true if you had a category starting with a . or #.
Re: Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
#19Looks great and I do miss the old Inbox design but like many people have said the main Inbox feature I miss is bundles.
Do you have any plans to add similar bundling functionality?
Just saw you said you do intend to support it! Let me know when this is done and you can have all of my money :D
Re: Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
#20Looks cool! Any plans for pinning and bundling/one click archiving entire bundles? Those two features are what I miss most since getting kicked off Inbox.
Ohh yes I also really miss pinning. Starring just doesn't cut it for me