Hi,
I haven't seen all of your user interface to give my opinion, but I know that Sparrow (sparrowmailapp.com) had a nice one. They've even been bought by Google.
My 2 cents
Show HN: A personal Gmail
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Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail
#72Awesome UI, but I wouldn't pay for it. Email is and should be free
Gmail isn't free. You are paying with data about yourself, your habits, your medical conditions, your employment, etc.
How about paying a one time license fee and install the app on your own server/get your own Mailgun account etc. That way you have more control over your data.
Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail
#73Arguably the one thing missing from Gmail right now is the ability to pick up the phone and speak to someone when something isn't working. If you can offer that level of support at the same time, I can't see any reason for a company not to give you money. Oh, and don't be discouraged by the people saying "no, never!" You can use third parties for handling spam, and it'll be easy enough to get mail onto peoples' phone…
Thanks for the kind words. Actually: Most of the points you raise have been solved. MailGun has (as far as i can tell after a week of usage) a great spam filter and supports IMAP. To be honest: I wouldn't even consider building the email infrastructure part myself.
To be honest: I wouldn't even consider building the email infrastructure part myself.
Good plan, especially when there's no good reason to do so.
In all honesty, I didn't go over the technical details you provided in any detail; I just got a bit upset reading the number of "I wouldn't pay for that!"-type responses.
The thing is, I've previously seen a lot of people here claim that there's no money in time tracking tools, or any other market when, plainly, these markets do make a large amount of money. I want to emphasize that any pricing advice here should be taken with a pinch of salt. And when it comes to people who would never pay for a given service, discarded entirely ;)
Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail
#74Are you kidding me? A "Show HN" to an imgur link of a photoshopped UI? Be honest, this is thinly (poorly) veiled ad for New Relic.
It's an actual app I've been using for a week now. Apart from the local dev database (wouldn't want to show my actual incoming emails), that's how it looks right now in my browser.
I chose the NewRelic newsletter because it somewhat fit the color scheme. So there's that...
Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail
#75Very cool idea. I'd like to use the app but my main concern is spam blocking. Maybe you can partner with someone like Cloudmark? I think Cloudmark has an API or something you can use to block spam effectively.
Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail
#76Open source the app. There's a huge lacking in good web based open source mail clients. Fill it. Offer a pay-for premium hosted version. Have us pay for service, not software. If you released this, assuming it doesn't suck balls, I'd be running it immediately. I'm currently using Rackspace for my email hosting; check them out. They're good, good be better. ;)
Agreed, I'd also be running this immediately if it was open source.
Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail
#77I have no read on market size, but it seems like there are apps that would benefit from having a fully-baked, built-in email tool.
Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail
#78Nice design, but I don't see myself paying for it.
Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail
#79A lot of people here seem to like gmail.
Well gmail sucks. Its slow, buggy, now has a bad user interface and is generally not what it used to be.
It was awesome when it was first released, but there is better now,much better.
We now have outlook.com(the new hotmail) which is just awesome in every way.
And we have fastmail which I don't use, but the new ui is really groundbreaking.
I left gmail the day outlook was released; funny thing is I didnt even realize how much gmail sucked until I moved.
Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
No "they" didn't, nobody ever said that horses were the ultimate form of transportation, and long before Ford came along the Railways were already whisking people along in greater safety and speed than horses.