Have been trying it out for a month or so. Love it to bits.
Is it possible for me to join in during the private beta?
Sure signup to the landing page, we are releasing invites in batches.
Tray.io - powerful email assistant
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#32I'm I the only person who is reluctant to add a service hosted by a startup to your email process? What kind of plans do you have for when they close/exit/pivot/whatever were calling it these days? How is this not going to be another Sparrow or Fluent?
Off topic, but what do you mean about Fluent? I though it was chugging along, and I've been waiting on an invite.
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#35I'm I the only person who is reluctant to add a service hosted by a startup to your email process? What kind of plans do you have for when they close/exit/pivot/whatever were calling it these days? How is this not going to be another Sparrow or Fluent?
Off topic, but what do you mean about Fluent? I though it was chugging along, and I've been waiting on an invite.
You'll be waiting forever then[1].
[1] http://fluentmail.tumblr.com/post/28767857337/fluent-is-clos...
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#36I'm I the only person who is reluctant to add a service hosted by a startup to your email process? What kind of plans do you have for when they close/exit/pivot/whatever were calling it these days? How is this not going to be another Sparrow or Fluent?
In this case? Hope you have a record of all your filters, then re-implement them using Python's POP or IMAP library. If they fold after demonstrating significant market interest, I'd be happy to set up a competing service with improved usability and monetization.
It's not something I'd try to launch otherwise. I'd be more about a B2B service which aims to improve issue tracking, response times, and accountability. If that does well, go on to work on knowledge retention and retrieval, which is pretty much a giant black hole you can play in forever.
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#37This reminds me a lot of the server-side procmail [0] and Sieve filters [1]. Perhaps this was even the inspiration for such a project, who knows?
But tray.io looks like it can handle far more advanced rules (or at least those somewhat comparable to procmail, and without having to do a bunch of manual scripting!), but in a more user-friendly, graphical way. And if it can automatically generate machine-learned rule suggestions based on user behavior, that would be even more fantastic.
The only major downside is that you have to be willing to let a third-party have access to your e-mail (and I know that when I've written server-side procmail scripts that have misbehaved, I've managed to unintentionally lose e-mail at least once or twice in my lifetime; of course, I didn't know that I had even lost the mail, since the server silently discarded it due to my malformed rules).
[0] http://www.procmail.org/ [1] http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve
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#38I'm I the only person who is reluctant to add a service hosted by a startup to your email process? What kind of plans do you have for when they close/exit/pivot/whatever were calling it these days? How is this not going to be another Sparrow or Fluent?
Off topic, but what do you mean about Fluent? I though it was chugging along, and I've been waiting on an invite.
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#39I would have serious privacy concerns about this. You are basically allowing a 3rd-party to read your email.
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#40I would have serious privacy concerns about this. You are basically allowing a 3rd-party to read your email.
You are basically allowing a 3rd-party to read your email.
4th party. Most of their target audience is probably on GMail and has no privacy concerns to begin with.