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With great sadness we announce the closing of Fluent.io

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Re: With great sadness we announce the closing of Fluent.io

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Post by DigitalSea »

I guess when you go saying things like "the future of email" unless you're Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft or Facebook that's all it's ever going to be: words. From the limited glimpse I got to see of the service it looked pretty promising and very visually pleasing, but sadly without the funding ideas like this just can't and won't work.

I would like to see someone else take this idea and run with it because I think it's definitely something that is bound to happen, someone at some stage will make email better. I think the owners should open source the code on Github, it would be a shame for such a service to fall by the wayside all because the funding wasn't there.

Re: With great sadness we announce the closing of Fluent.io

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Post by cynicalmood »

Its stuff like this that makes me very cynical about a big portion of the startup world. I admire companies that stick to their vision for the long haul and don't bow out because all of a sudden they don't have enough attention/passion/whatever. You'd think that if a party comes out stating huge ambitions and a big vision for fixing a problem, they'd have the determination to match the cause.

Re: With great sadness we announce the closing of Fluent.io

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Post by drewjoh »

cynicalmood wrote: post #3

Its stuff like this that makes me very cynical about a big portion of the startup world. I admire companies that stick to their vision for the long haul and don't bow out because all of a sudden they don't have enough attention/passion/whatever. You'd think that if a party comes out stating huge ambitions and a big vision for fixing a problem, they'd have the determination to match the cause.

I share similar sentiments. Start-ups feel more fickle as of late... perhaps just chance with Sparrow's recent buy out, etc. Unless there's a real reason to keep going for the starters (monetary or personal drive/passion), then there's no fountain to stand on.

It's disappointing! I was really looking forward to trying this out... but I never made it past the waiting list.

Re: With great sadness we announce the closing of Fluent.io

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

DigitalSea wrote: post #2

I guess when you go saying things like "the future of email" unless you're Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft or Facebook that's all it's ever going to be: words. From the limited glimpse I got to see of the service it looked pretty promising and very visually pleasing, but sadly without the funding ideas like this just can't and won't work. I would like to see someone else take this idea and run with it because I think it's…

Ironically Fluent was a team of "disgruntled ex-googlers"

Re: With great sadness we announce the closing of Fluent.io

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Post by andrewfelix »

xqyz wrote: post #8

> Email is quite clearly a thing that needs fixing Honestly, I've never seen it that way. Email continues to work fine. It's platform independent and easy to use/setup. It's probably one of the best things on the internet ever.

Email is great. But long threads with various forwards and cc's become incredibly painful. Gmail have gone some way to fixing it, but Fluent.io looked like they were doing a great job (Judging by the demo videos)
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