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The Mail Pilot Public Beta

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Re: The Mail Pilot Public Beta

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Post by mapleoin »

From the about page:

Email is in need of a fresh start. No one wakes up in the morning and thinks, “I can’t wait to check my email!”

Am I the only person who has no problem managing their email? I'm a software developer and have 4 email accounts that I check regularly all from the same Thunderbird email client. I have filters and folders for mailinglists. I have different accounts for different personas (personal, work, work and open source/fun). I get hundreds of mails per day, tens a day that I actually need to react to.

I really don't have the problem of dreading to check my email. I know I'm not a manager of a startup or a big company, but then most people aren't.

Re: The Mail Pilot Public Beta

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Post by gm »

Sounds like Outlook to me? Ie, being careful of which emails to mark as read ("complete"), setting up reminders for later on individual emails, taking a message and adding it to a to-do list, etc...

Or what would this offer that Outlook does not (other than not being a MS product). I'm being serious, not a smart ass. I would love to be able to leave Outlook...

Re: The Mail Pilot Public Beta

#7

Post by gm »

mapleoin wrote: post #3

From the about page: Email is in need of a fresh start. No one wakes up in the morning and thinks, “I can’t wait to check my email!” Am I the only person who has no problem managing their email? I'm a software developer and have 4 email accounts that I check regularly all from the same Thunderbird email client. I have filters and folders for mailinglists. I have different accounts for different personas (personal, wo…

I'm with you. What I dread is missing an email (spam filter, etc), not actually receiving messages.

Re: The Mail Pilot Public Beta

#8

Post by modarts »

mapleoin wrote: post #3

From the about page: Email is in need of a fresh start. No one wakes up in the morning and thinks, “I can’t wait to check my email!” Am I the only person who has no problem managing their email? I'm a software developer and have 4 email accounts that I check regularly all from the same Thunderbird email client. I have filters and folders for mailinglists. I have different accounts for different personas (personal, wo…

That underlies a major issue i'm seeing more of in the tech startup scene: Coming up with solutions to problems a large majority of users don't face. Blog after blog proclaiming that "Email is broken", "It's time to rethink email" etc, etc.

No. Your users don't think that at all. They are happily chugging along, oblivious to the crises manufactured by neckbeards. Your value proposition needs to be reframed in terms of what your product can do on it's own merit; without the need to attempt to deprecate an existing technology/platform.

Re: The Mail Pilot Public Beta

#9

Post by sirclueless »

I appreciate that someone is making an email app for power users. It does a lot of the things I am currently forced to hack onto Gmail's priority inbox (I leave items I need to revisit in my inbox, archive "done" tasks, and star items I want to revisit in the distant future). On the other hand, I have grown so accustomed to Gmail's conversation view that there is no way I can give it up, even for a really good service, and it doesn't look like Mail Pilot has this feature.

Gmail's conversation view is in my opinion a nearly insurmountable barrier to entry for other companies. 1) It's a tough natural language processing task, which means startups have trouble with it. 2) It requires someone algorithmically reading all my emails, which means it's such a PR nightmare to even try it that only Google is willing to weather the storm.

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