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Re: Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox

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Post by anamax »

buttocks wrote: post #15

Feedback: Email is just fine . It is mature and should just be left alone. It is not something that should be reinvented. The next thing should not be email at all . It should be something fundamentally different, not another iteration of email. Seeing some downvote criticism on this comment, let me clarify. I understand the value in working on an established set of federated protocols. Everyone has an email address…

Email is a couple of related but separable things.

One of those things is transport and all that it entails (delivery, storage, addressing, etc.) Another is a particular kind of messaging.

One can use the transport for other kinds of messaging.

Re: Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox

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Post by etcet »

kirillzubovsky wrote: post #90
etcet wrote: post #14

I am one of those Google Inbox refugees and this definitely piques my interest. The pricing does not really make sense for personal user ($9/mo for a email client). Could you elaborate on the free plan 90 day limit? If I snooze an email for 100 days, will I ever see it? Please try to convince me that this limit will not be annoying enough that I should take the risk of linking my Gmail account.

I am curious why you think that $9/m does not make sense. Is that too much, or too little, and why for either case?

I've spent $0 on email clients the last 20 years I've been using email. At $9/mo, if I used this service, I would have spent $2,160 on an email client.

If I imagine a scenario where someone tells me they can turn GMail into Google Inbox, I would consider a one-time $20 a fair price and could maybe be stretched to $60 with some convincing.

Re: Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox

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Post by 1123581321 »

groby_b wrote: post #39

I'll be blunt: Anything that promises me a "more enjoyable" inbox, and then advertises with cat pictures and what-do-we-do-for-lunch threads is missing the mark for me. I don't want more fluff in my inbox. I especially don't want anything that helps people "email faster". It's not productive, it just makes more noise. E-mail is a medium for half-baked thoughts quickly dashed off to put them on somebody else's plate.…

You sound confused by the examples which are there to show the interface. You can write anything you want in an email message and send as few of them as you want. Anyone who knows they are looking at an email app's landing page will understand that the compose fields are freeform.

Re: Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox

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Post by awill »

I get the need to have both a free, and a paid version, but email with only 90 days of history is not a viable free tier. This isn't slack, this is email.

I'd love to try it, but it can't work even in the simplest way for me to test.

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