Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox

This is gmail only, yes? Should that not be reflected in the title?

My email goes through K9 on Android first (5.6, the next version broke this workflow and despised about half of its users. Look for k9 overview screen to appreciate the drama and look at the distribution of the stars of the app.) I use K9 to look at the titles of the messages I get on my POP3 accounts. I don't remove the messages from the servers. I disable notifications and polling. I have to manually check my accounts. This is not to be distracted.

Really urgent matters ring my phone. Customers reach me on slack (only on desktop.) IMs are for real time communication. Email is for low priority communication. I check it a few times per day, less than five. I read immediately the important messages and I reply from there, automatically BCC to me. I delete the cruft (the notifications I don't have to archive, invites to events I won't go to, etc.) For many messages the title is the only important signal.

Later on, not every day, I download mail on my laptop with Thunderbird. This deletes email from the POP3 servers so it makes it unavailable to the phone. Messages are organized into a few hundred of folders, either by sender or project. Filters do it (create it once, use forever.)

This means that I already read the email, at least its title, and I rarely have to read it again on the computer. I got thousands of unread messages there and I have read only the title of many of them, only on the phone. I've got messages dating back to 1994.

Of course I'm an outlier (but consider how many people want the old K9 back) and of course predicting how people use stuff is very hard. It would be nice to have an IMAP server over my Thunderbird folder to look at every message from my phone. It's been 10 years since I told me that maybe I should self host one and I never did it, so it's probably not very important though.

I did not find much about privacy and security on the website.

Love this. I wrote a draft with some of this but thought it wasn't substantive so deleted..

The gist to me is this product has been done before and doesn't seem to solve much or save much time IMHO. Hey.com seems better and does help with some personal email problems (spam, social and marketing emails)

This product seems like it wants to be a business tool without a lot of those core features.

You mention a lot of great inter organizational tools.

Front is awesome I've built plugins for it for our clients currently working on one right now. They have done multi inbox, multi agent/user really well.

But to me the $ would be for business use. If this product can bring in say salesforce data or purchase data as context in an email for example, that's where the money would be IMHO.

Like if you are a web store, someone replies to their receipt email they want a refund/exchange. The UI presents your companies' process to do that in one or two clicks, since it knows the email address & can parse the email for an order #.

Maybe for employee to employee too but seems like not much money there. IDK maybe it can integrate and figure out git integrations as an example of parsing email content and providing context for replying.

P.s. this probably doesn't matter much at all maybe I'm a jerk for writing it but that video voice over recording is awful it sounds like it was done on an employees laptop. Especially for - it sounds like - people with a big exit, connections to capital. Maybe on purpose though! because I also hate the over produced bell xylophone bopping along hippy hoppy modern vector graphic people demo videos too lol