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Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail

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Post by kstenerud »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #41
k3n wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You say that like Gmail is the market leader here, they're not. They are as far as I'm concerned. I'm curious, though, who you do consider to be the market leader? I'm going to have a hard time keeping my composure if you say Hotmail (or "Live" mail), Yahoo, or something similar.

In terms of users they obviously are the market leader. I use Outlook.com personally and consider it to be overall better than Gmail. I'd gladly debate this if you'd like. Never the less, my original point was that all of these Gmail strengths that you think are very important are obviously not very important to people using Yahoo or their ISP webmail. The idea that everyone uses Gmail and any competitor must compete…

This sounds an awful lot like telling your customers they're wrong. And if you find yourself doing that, it's usually because you don't understand what your customer wants.

Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail

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Post by StavrosK »

maratd wrote: post #5

> Would you even consider using the app, in case I'd make a commercial product out of it? No. I use Google because of the stuff that happens in the background, that I never see. Their infrastructure, SPAM blocking, Android app, intrusion detection, seamless support for custom domains, filtering and search, etc. GMail looks like a simple app, but it's actually a herculean effort on behalf of Google, a multi-billion do…

Since upvote counts are no longer shown, I want to say that I agree with this post. I'd keep using GMail even just for the two-factor auth and security. The stellar spam filtering is another big plus.

Your app does look great, though.

Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail

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Post by jubari »

As a quick intermission:

This is a GREAT discussion regarding the state of webmail. Although my app clearly isn't "there yet" (regarding going public), I'm having a great time reading your comments.

Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail

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Post by AdamGibbins »

The reason I'm using GMail (as opposed to FastMail) is primarily their terrific integration with Android. The excellent GMail app, the contact and calendaring syncing.

I'd really love to use Fastmail, but I see no way I could sync my contacts in a seamless way.

I can't see how your solution would solve this, so no, I would not use.

Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail

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Post by overshard »

This app looks incredible but I have absolutely no interest in using a Gmail look alike without all the Gmail features aka android integration, amazing spam blocking, etc, etc, etc (this list could be extensive and most other people have already covered it).

You have the looks down but what you need to seriously focus on now is the back-end and how you might be able to bring all the gmail features people love along.

Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail

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Post by mixmax »

brianobush wrote: post #42
MatthewPhillips wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You say that like Gmail is the market leader here, they're not. Most of the features you mentioned do exist in other services and other services do have features that Gmail doesn't. The OP can definitely make a business out of email, it is far from a solved problem.

Email is not a solved problem? How do I use it daily without thinking about it. Solved in my mind.

That's what they said about horses. Then along came Henry Ford.

Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail

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Post by elliottcarlson »

old-gregg wrote: post #20

Wow, very nice! Please reach out ot me: ev@mailgunhq.com I want to make sure you're not paying too much for Mailgun. We love smart and ambitious customers.

Off-topic; looks like there is a mistake in the PHP example on your homepage:

    $request->setPostFields(array('from' =>'Excited User ',
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