I've been using it for 5 minutes. It's like Google Inbox was brought back from the dead and I mean that in the best possible way. Since we're pitching feature requests, dark mode, please!
Looking forward to where Shortwave goes!
Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox
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#102I've been using it for 5 minutes. It's like Google Inbox was brought back from the dead and I mean that in the best possible way. Since we're pitching feature requests, dark mode, please! Looking forward to where Shortwave goes!
Glad you enjoy it! Dark mode is coming :D It's high up on our list and we're setup for it.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair that's literally the 2nd line on the landing page: "Email smarter & faster with a reinvented experience for your Gmail" , with the first line having an underlined "Enjoy" - I believe to double convince the future users. On the other hand it definitely looks like another snake oil email client in a long list of snake oil email clients. My another guess is (and I maybe wrong) - it is entirely electron or web…
The first paragraph is true, but I had to click on the link to discover that. I guess I'm just a bit peeved at the implicit presumption everyone uses Gmail, and therefore, that Gmail APIs cover the field, and therefore that I can enjoy my inbox.
Hey we don't assume everyone uses Gmail. There are advantages to focusing on Gmail to start - it's got a really large market and it was the fastest way to validate our idea. We have plans to integrate with other email providers and eventually be our own provider as well.
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#104I note the tagline says "Enjoy your inbox". This is liable to create the impression the service is platform-neutral, but it is not. It relies solely on the Gmail API? I don't use Gmail, so your product doesn't work for me. A simple way to fix this is to adjust the title to the more accurate, "Enjoy your Gmail inbox", thereby enabling us to determine whether it is usable or not. In the long run, I hope you consider pl…
If more platforms supported JMAP we would totally start with that (it's similar-ish to Gmail's API for what we need). Eventually we will support IMAP/SMTP integrations (maybe by wrapping IMAP in a JMAP proxy).
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#105Hmmm can't seem to finish the login flow
You can reach out to support@shortwave.com with more details about the error you're getting. We'll try to figure out what's going on
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#106I would love to use it if i was for more then just gmail.
Though fantastic idea all around!
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
The first paragraph is true, but I had to click on the link to discover that. I guess I'm just a bit peeved at the implicit presumption everyone uses Gmail, and therefore, that Gmail APIs cover the field, and therefore that I can enjoy my inbox.
Hey we don't assume everyone uses Gmail. There are advantages to focusing on Gmail to start - it's got a really large market and it was the fastest way to validate our idea. We have plans to integrate with other email providers and eventually be our own provider as well.
Glad to hear it.
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#108I dearly hope you take some ideas from Hey, especially multiple inboxes with individualized behavior. I recently set my Gmail up to work as closely to this as can be achieved and it has completely changed my email life after years of trying different systems and clients.
That said, excited to see if the system I set up for myself will port cleanly Shortwave. The bundling feature is clutch and it's the one thing I really miss.
Great job, thank you for building this for us, and good luck!
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#109I dearly hope you take some ideas from Hey, especially multiple inboxes with individualized behavior. I recently set my Gmail up to work as closely to this as can be achieved and it has completely changed my email life after years of trying different systems and clients. That said, excited to see if the system I set up for myself will port cleanly Shortwave. The bundling feature is clutch and it's the one thing I rea…
Just to expand on this, the key feature is thus:
- Read emails in the inbox are automatically archived. If you want to see them later, you must set them aside, star, snooze, whatever
- Mail that's not from trusted contacts is automatically marked as read and has its own inbox, so you can just glance for anything important, but don't need to manage it at all
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#110I'll add in a vote for IMAP support. I am anti-Google in almost all regards. Currently I use FastMail as my email provider, and Mail.app as my client. I pay for FastMail, and similarly I would very gladly pay for a good cross-platform mail client. I'd sign up for a yearly subscription, even! I do recognize that IMAP is not as rich a data source as GMails API, but I'd encourage you to not feel limited by that. I don't…
Fastmail created https://jmap.io/ as an open alternative to the GMail API.
jmap is great, but while it's an 'open alternative', afaik currently fastmail is using it, so adding support for jmap would still not make the client available to more services