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Hi, everyone. I'm Ian, one of the Threadable founders. I'd be happy to answer any questions.
Here's my requirement:
I have a lot of groups on my website (sports clubs in fact) and I want to roll a feature that they can use an email address (like google groups) to manage their teams via email. Is this something we can tap into on threadable?
Is that something you guys can do? How do we work with you guys to make that happen?
Hi, everyone. I'm Ian, one of the Threadable founders. I'd be happy to answer any questions.
From the screenshots the emails look like they have dynamic elements in them ie buttons that do stuff. I imagine that they aren't links that just point to your site, but that you have figured out a way around no-JS in emails. How? Gmail/gapps plugin? Or...?
In the future, we have plans to do client detection, so that we can offer more advanced features to users with more modern clients.
Hi, everyone. I'm Ian, one of the Threadable founders. I'd be happy to answer any questions.
We use Google Groups a lot. The Techcrunch article was not very clear. What would be the main reasons to switch Threadable from Google Groups?
A threadable list can be divided easily into subgroups with their own subset of the list membership. Any member can create a group, and you can move threads between groups, even after they start.
In practice, this means you don't have to anticipate which groups to create in advance. You can just let discussion happen, and when critical mass around some topic is reached, move it off into a group without the overhead or interruption that comes from making a whole new mailing list.
This leads to more organic discussion, and also makes it possible for group members to help one another determine relevance. It's sorta like crowdsourcing your mail filters from the rest of your team. We've noticed that people are less likely to filter a Threadable list into another folder, so they participate more.
It's also more friendly to newbies, since there's less worry that a thread will end up in the wrong place. If it does, you can just move it.
I agree mailing list software is terrible and neglected and this is an improvement, and mailing lists are useful so Threadable is definitely creating value. I can see the vision in the product and you can imagine how it will just get better. What I wonder though is what path this kind of a product could take to achieve success on the scale of Stripe or even Mixpanel. I could see it achieving small team/business profi…
Could you please give examples of how SMTP and IMAP restrict client innovation despite high-level libraries and classifiers?
(There are other features too, which I entirely ignore without missing anything. In fact, other than "there are some HTML buttons in the email", which will probably also eventually have an option to turn off, our transition from our prior mailing list service was almost unnoticeable for somebody like me who didn't want to use the extra features. And that's a compliment.)
Hi, everyone. I'm Ian, one of the Threadable founders. I'd be happy to answer any questions.
Very interested in your API! Here's my requirement: I have a lot of groups on my website (sports clubs in fact) and I want to roll a feature that they can use an email address (like google groups) to manage their teams via email. Is this something we can tap into on threadable? Is that something you guys can do? How do we work with you guys to make that happen?
Hi, everyone. I'm Ian, one of the Threadable founders. I'd be happy to answer any questions.
We use Google Groups a lot. The Techcrunch article was not very clear. What would be the main reasons to switch Threadable from Google Groups?
Threadable is like Google Groups, except that whether or not the default reply-to is "all" is a user preference rather than a group preference, which made me so happy. (There are other features too, which I entirely ignore without missing anything. In fact, other than "there are some HTML buttons in the email", which will probably also eventually have an option to turn off, our transition from our prior mailing list…
One of the key changes between how Threadable works and previous mailing lists is that we can actually customize fairly deeply each message to each user, rather than simply reflecting the same thing out to the whole list. This trickles out into a bunch of interesting use cases and features, which we've only just started to implement.
This actually sounds like a great product. I can find no pricing information on their website. Is it all free right now? Or does it not even exist yet? What's the deal?
As I said earlier, our plan is to charge for business features, and not by restricting the number of users in a given list. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7429550