MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform

Post by EGreg » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 5:45 AM UTC

selmnoo wrote: post #204

PeterGriffin wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm an idiot, but I'm willing to believe there are still people out there who love what they do, and would stand by it, even if Corporation X comes knocking on the door with a pot of gold. I'd rather cheer for them and be disappointed, than dismiss them in advance and live my life perceiving the world through a cynical lens. Huh. I didn't know I can write so dramatically. You catch my drift, though.

Well, I think everyone kind of breaks down with their "morals" or idealistic visions when presented with the word "billion". E.g. see Occulus Rift founder Palmer Lucey's posts on Reddit from years ago claiming he will never sell the company under any condition. But a quick offer with a billion was made and just like that Oculus was Facebook's.

Post by hackuser » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 6:04 AM UTC

FreezerburnV wrote: post #109

grinich wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, for caching+performance reasons.

Do you encrypt anything in that case? Or do things in such a way that no rogue employee of Inbox would be able to read someone's email? I work with email currently, and one of the core mantras we have is that nobody should be able to read the email of someone who uses our service. It's such a personal thing with so much private information, that even the possibility of someone being able to do that (especially when t…

Post by dang » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 6:22 AM UTC

npizzolato wrote: post #228

dang wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Doesn't sound like a good idea? Then shut up. Please don't be aggressive like this on Hacker News. It violates the guidelines and degrades the discourse. That sentence has no information in it—it's just rude—so the comment would be better without it.

Sorry, but I have to disagree. The sentence only has no information in it I'd you choose to blindly look at the words in a vacuum. But if you think about what he said, what he meant, the tone has a ton of information, the most obvious is a drop frustration of the empty promises and frequent shut downs that is all too common in recent startups. I think the comment created worthwhile conversation. And I'm not sure it w…

Post by nolok » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 7:03 AM UTC

aagha wrote: post #234

Agathos wrote: post #10

“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.

They should add to their site that they will not, in any circumstance, ever sell out to anyone. Ever.

Post by JonnieCache » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 7:33 AM UTC

chatmasta wrote: post #224

JonnieCache wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In that case, you should probably make a big fancy statement to that effect. It would be popular, people are very concerned about the issue of services being acquired and binned these days, it's such an obvious pattern. If you are not legally/politically able to make such a statement, then these casual assurances are worthless, and ultimately misleading.

Your two paragraphs are logically irreconcilable. Obviously, they cannot legally or politically make a statement like "we will never get acquired." You tell them not to make that statement if they can't. But then you also tell them they should make the statement? People need to chill. This looks like an awesome product and platform, and it doesn't seem like it will require any data lock in (you can always move your e…