What I like about Threadable is that it's both obvious and contrarian. Startup people usually turn their noses up at mere email. Not sexy enough. Except, everyone relies on email, and everyone hates their tools for managing it.
Threadable (YC W14) makes mailing lists more awesome, less noisy
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#42very hypocritical to claim "less noisy" while spamming about your service on your investor's "news" site.
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#44Does this work with custom domains, or are all the lists @treadable.com?
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What's the plan for a business model?
Our current thought is to charge for business features. A Threadable list is a pretty open place by default. Lists are all members-only, but once you've been added you have a lot of control. Private (within the team) subgroups are a feature we'll likely charge for, along with Google Apps integration. We've also seen a lot of interest in a product that can be installed behind a firewall, but that's a little further of…
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#48Though IIUC Threadable latches onto Google Groups? That sucks. How about a clean break guys?
I'm working with the opensource http://github.com/kaihendry/imap2json & mlmmj, and I'm pretty happy.
And I have my data too, to boot.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Our current thought is to charge for business features. A Threadable list is a pretty open place by default. Lists are all members-only, but once you've been added you have a lot of control. Private (within the team) subgroups are a feature we'll likely charge for, along with Google Apps integration. We've also seen a lot of interest in a product that can be installed behind a firewall, but that's a little further of…
That's really well-thought-out; are you guys hiring?
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#50Is the Help/Feedback button not supposed to do anything in Firefox?