Show HN: Glider, a better email client
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Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client
#2Hey HN,
Glider co-founder here. We hated how existing email clients treated an email from Paul Graham the same as newsletters and twitter notifications. Gmail's priority inbox tried to fix this problem by filtering out "unimportant" emails, but messages from different contexts were still being mixed together.
We think the best solution is to group emails by sender and context (people, notifications, mailing lists, etc). For example, if I'm a power-seller on eBay, my PayPal notifications are top priority, but I still don't want to see them alongside emails from friends. You already know what types of emails are important to you, so we designed Glider to allow you to easily see that information without having to create an intricate system of labels, filters and folders.
We'd love to hear your thoughts on email. We're looking for honest feedback, so please feel free to tear our idea apart. Is this something that you (or someone you know) would use? Thanks!
Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client
#3Hey HN, Glider co-founder here. We hated how existing email clients treated an email from Paul Graham the same as newsletters and twitter notifications. Gmail's priority inbox tried to fix this problem by filtering out "unimportant" emails, but messages from different contexts were still being mixed together. We think the best solution is to group emails by sender and context (people, notifications, mailing lists, et…
iOS apps would be awesome since I think that is where email is still suffering the most and where seeing the most important/relevant messages first matters most.
Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client
#4Hey HN, Glider co-founder here. We hated how existing email clients treated an email from Paul Graham the same as newsletters and twitter notifications. Gmail's priority inbox tried to fix this problem by filtering out "unimportant" emails, but messages from different contexts were still being mixed together. We think the best solution is to group emails by sender and context (people, notifications, mailing lists, et…
iOS apps would be awesome since I think that is where email is still suffering the most and where seeing the most important/relevant messages first matters most.
I sent a note via the website about parsing Amazon delivery notes for shipment tracking numbers, then pulling in delivery dates via FedEx/UPS etc APIs and displaying it inline in the message list (maybe even optionally in a sidebar widget, list my currently in-transit Amazon receipts).
I think that could be really interesting, and similar concepts applied to various services/notification emails.
Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client
#5Hey HN, Glider co-founder here. We hated how existing email clients treated an email from Paul Graham the same as newsletters and twitter notifications. Gmail's priority inbox tried to fix this problem by filtering out "unimportant" emails, but messages from different contexts were still being mixed together. We think the best solution is to group emails by sender and context (people, notifications, mailing lists, et…
Neat. Glad there are still people not treating email as a solved problem. I tossed my address in for an invite.. Meanwhile.. Is there a security whitepaper or writeup somewhere? Handing over the keys to your email account isn't something I'm eager to do without some confidence in your product :)
[Edit] Also... please paste the "if sender == 'pg@ycombinator.com':" condition that I want to believe is in your codebase.
Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client
#6Hey HN, Glider co-founder here. We hated how existing email clients treated an email from Paul Graham the same as newsletters and twitter notifications. Gmail's priority inbox tried to fix this problem by filtering out "unimportant" emails, but messages from different contexts were still being mixed together. We think the best solution is to group emails by sender and context (people, notifications, mailing lists, et…
Neat. Glad there are still people not treating email as a solved problem. I tossed my address in for an invite.. Meanwhile.. Is there a security whitepaper or writeup somewhere? Handing over the keys to your email account isn't something I'm eager to do without some confidence in your product :) [Edit] Also... please paste the "if sender == 'pg@ycombinator.com':" condition that I want to believe is in your codebase.
Same. I don't like each and every proposed solution that all the recent email clients have, but I live a life which, like it or not, involves a hell of a lot of email. So against all odds, seeing people trying to seriously tackle email from different angles is exciting.
Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neat. Glad there are still people not treating email as a solved problem. I tossed my address in for an invite.. Meanwhile.. Is there a security whitepaper or writeup somewhere? Handing over the keys to your email account isn't something I'm eager to do without some confidence in your product :) [Edit] Also... please paste the "if sender == 'pg@ycombinator.com':" condition that I want to believe is in your codebase.
Same. I don't like each and every proposed solution that all the recent email clients have, but I live a life which, like it or not, involves a hell of a lot of email. So against all odds, seeing people trying to seriously tackle email from different angles is exciting.
I had a long conversation with a friend over lunch once where we both started by imagining a severely improved client, and eventually concluded that once you had traction with that the real benefits would come from a severely improved protocol. A lot of what makes email suck seems pretty baked into it historically.
Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client
#8Hey HN, Glider co-founder here. We hated how existing email clients treated an email from Paul Graham the same as newsletters and twitter notifications. Gmail's priority inbox tried to fix this problem by filtering out "unimportant" emails, but messages from different contexts were still being mixed together. We think the best solution is to group emails by sender and context (people, notifications, mailing lists, et…
In the abstract sense of having an electronic personal secretary that knew me well sort my email for me, yes!!! Absolutely yes and I'd pay $20/mo without blinking.
That said it appears a non-trivial classification / UI problem on a few fronts. Good luck :)
Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client
#9Hey HN, Glider co-founder here. We hated how existing email clients treated an email from Paul Graham the same as newsletters and twitter notifications. Gmail's priority inbox tried to fix this problem by filtering out "unimportant" emails, but messages from different contexts were still being mixed together. We think the best solution is to group emails by sender and context (people, notifications, mailing lists, et…
Neat. Glad there are still people not treating email as a solved problem. I tossed my address in for an invite.. Meanwhile.. Is there a security whitepaper or writeup somewhere? Handing over the keys to your email account isn't something I'm eager to do without some confidence in your product :) [Edit] Also... please paste the "if sender == 'pg@ycombinator.com':" condition that I want to believe is in your codebase.
Security is one of our top concerns, and we're looking into different ways to make it as airtight as possible. We'll have more info on security before we launch.
At the moment, we're integrating through GMail through their API, so you can revoke access at any time, and we never see your password.
Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client
#10"Robust search" is listed as the top feature. Is that really meaningful for something built upon Gmail which already outshines every other solution out there regarding search?