I'd rather like it into as a drop-in webmail solution, I haven't seen any on the market that look even remotely as good.
Show HN: A personal Gmail
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Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail
#82I'd like it if it was turned into as a drop-in webmail solution, I haven't seen any on the market that look even remotely as good.
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#83I'd use it, and pay for it, if you gave me direct and private access to my data, hosted on a third-party. Control and portability are a huge concern of mine, and one of the reasons I'm terrified about keeping my data life with Google where I can get locked out with zero notice.
THe design looks great, and I'd love to see a host that helped me negotiate ways to protect my privacy and portability.
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#84A 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 rel…
This reads like a bot trying to pass a Turing test? The grammatical structure is so robotic. Obviously also a total pile of stinking anecdotal nonsense.
You switched to Outlook, well, good for you. Something tells you you wouldn't recognize a good from bad ui if it bit you on your SCSI cable.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I want to add to this, people actually hated horses with a passion, especially in cities. They were a transportation necessity, you couldn't move heavy goods without them ... but they would defecate absolutely everywhere and most cities weren't terribly organized in terms of cleaning up the poop. Which means they reeked of horseshit constantly. As noisy and polluting as cars were, people considered them a godsend.
Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail
#86> 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…
This plus trust. Not that I trust Google all that much, I just think they wouldn't risk their brand to see if I have nudie pics* in my account.
It looks really great in the screenshot, though. Pitch it to someone with an established brand?
* For the record, I do not.
Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
"obviously are the market leader" Gmail only just recently (October 2012) overtook Hotmail.
Typo on my part, meant to say that Gmail isn't the market leader in terms of users, Yahoo is.
Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail
#88Kudos on making a slick looking product. I'd say that if your UI was less like GMail, I'd consider using it. If it was just that, a UI for any web mail from any domain, like a Mail.app for the web, I'd definitely pay for it.
And to anyone who says they use Gmail for Security: They're an advertising company who openly mines and sells your personal data. Exactly how is that safe?
Keep on working man. Doing good.
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#89How did you make the layout? Graphics design is my biggest weakness, all my webapps look like the design is made in Paint. And yours is so clean, the fonts are good, everything looks so professional.
Re: Show HN: A personal Gmail
#90A 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 rel…
I'd of course been wanting to move to something less proprietary than Gmail for a while. The recent Gmail suckiness finally prompted me to switch to Roundcube (hosted by Gandi) a few months ago. Your new thing seems as cluttered as Gmail, so I wouldn't use it.