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Your claim that your product will not be discontinued is worthless. If you're so sure of that, put your money where your mouth is, and offer an SLA with a contractual minimum duration you promise to keep the service up, and significant monetary penalties if you fail to meet it. Doesn't sound like a good idea? Then shut up.
" and will not be ‘discontinued’ unexpectedly." 'unexpectedly' is the key. Giving people 3-6 months of runway to say "we're shutting down on day X" is still living up to that statement.
Your claim that your product will not be discontinued is worthless. If you're so sure of that, put your money where your mouth is, and offer an SLA with a contractual minimum duration you promise to keep the service up, and significant monetary penalties if you fail to meet it. Doesn't sound like a good idea? Then shut up.
Your comment is needlessly mean-spirited. The top-voted comment on the recent Show HN thread would seem to apply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7984826
“Inbox is an email company. Google is an advertising company. This product is our focus, and will not be ‘discontinued’ unexpectedly.” Burn! Very amusing. But for all we know they will be acqui-hired, maybe even by Google, and then shifted to a different project.
I do not recall before today just looking at a new company's elevator pitch and muttering "Best wishes with the acquihire, y'all". Something subtle's shifted in the way we perceive startups, lately...
But the above is just my observations at my own behavior. I do wish the best for this company!
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I find the angry tone of this message to be misplaced and unnecessary.
I also disagree with the tone but I understand the reason. They will gladly shut the service down once someone offers them enough money in aqui-hire.
They will gladly shut the service down once someone offers them enough money in aqui-hire.
Probably the only convincing thing I can say is that if you wanted to build a company to flip quickly, an email infrastructure startup is certainly the most painful, masochistic way you could go about it. We spent the better part of last year reading RFCs and fixing tons of obscure bugs to get this far.
You ever see those commercial restaurant spaces which seem like a good spot on paper, but every restaurant that goes into it seems to fail? Thats kind of how I feel about all the "We fixed email" startups. A real pain point but one I'd never want to tackle since there doesn't seem to be one "I've fixed it" solution.
Ha ha! I clicked on this article's HN comments thinking "Wow, this sounds a company ready for their Incredible Journey to begin." (c.f. http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com ) And lo, the most upvoted comments here are all expressing the same sentiment. I do not recall before today just looking at a new company's elevator pitch and muttering "Best wishes with the acquihire, y'all". Something subtle's shifted in the…
Ha ha! I clicked on this article's HN comments thinking "Wow, this sounds a company ready for their Incredible Journey to begin." (c.f. http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com ) And lo, the most upvoted comments here are all expressing the same sentiment. I do not recall before today just looking at a new company's elevator pitch and muttering "Best wishes with the acquihire, y'all". Something subtle's shifted in the…
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You can totally still run it yourself. But we figure most developers won't want to run lots and lots of servers to sync+store terabytes of mail data. (see Heroku, AWS, etc.) ... but you can if you want. And if that sounds interesting, maybe you should work with us? :) jobs@inboxapp.com
Besides syncing to a device, inboxapp stores a copy of a person's mail data on the server side?