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Nylas Mail is now free

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Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by jwong_ »

athenot wrote: post #40
romanovcode wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, maybe if author would charge 7 bucks in total instead of 7 bucks per month he would not have this problem.

I have not used Nylas but if email is a tool that is integral to your productivity, paying for a tool that helps you is not a far-fetched idea. It's the same as with text editors. There are plenty available for free but if there's one that happens to help you in your work, paying less than 0.1% of your income can hardly qualify as excessive. At $7/month, if this tool saves you 10 minutes a month, it's worth it.

$12/month now

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by biokoda »

wslh wrote: post #47
gnufied wrote: post #8

I really wanted an Email client for Linux which isn't power hungry but unfortunately last I tried Nylas - it was always top app in `powertop`. An always running app has to be low on power consumption IMO, but because so many apps are being built on top of webkit/electron most of them pretty much suck when it comes to battery usage. Another case in point is slack app. On Linux, it is probably the worst app. :(

Sylpheed? http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ screenshots here: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/screenshot.html

GTK still looks that bad? That is absolutely horrendous.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by Jaepa »

romanovcode wrote: post #22

Wait, so Nylas was free, then it was paid and now it's free again? Did I understand correctly?

Nylas has somewhat of a weird model.

The Nylas client doesn't connect to you mail provider directly, instead the Nylas client connects to the Nylas Sync Engine. It used to be that using this API for this was a couple hundred a year, per account.

Both the client and the sync engine are open source, so you've always been able to host your own.

https://github.com/nylas/sync-engine

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by shreve »

yoasif_ wrote: post #39

Is there a build available which doesn't require users to sign up for a Nylas ID? The support page states that "If you’re using N1 against our open source sync engine, you’ll still need to create a Nylas ID." Given the privacy policy says that Nylas shares information with third parties and that they can "make a copy of the entire contents of the applicable email inbox, calendar, and contact book", it doesn't feel li…

That's an integral part of how it works. Their sync servers download your email, then sync with your local client. You need that ID to log into their server and access your individual email accounts.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by echion »

yoasif_ wrote: post #39

Is there a build available which doesn't require users to sign up for a Nylas ID? The support page states that "If you’re using N1 against our open source sync engine, you’ll still need to create a Nylas ID." Given the privacy policy says that Nylas shares information with third parties and that they can "make a copy of the entire contents of the applicable email inbox, calendar, and contact book", it doesn't feel li…

At first I thought "shares information with third parties and that they can [copy your email]" (emphasis mine) meant that the third parties can see & copy your email. I can't find anything like that language in Nylas' privacy policy (https://nylas.com/privacy-policy/) and so I guess your "they" meant "Nylas". Given their precise business model is making synchronized copies of your email inbox, that doesn't sound very unreasonable to me.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by sachinag »

ilSignorCarlo wrote: post #49

What motivated the decision to give again the option to use Nylas for free? I remember reading that your target were kinds of "email power users", for whom you would offer the ability to create advanced workflow. Did this change?

Free trial versus freemium. If you have a larger base (free tier), even if a small percentage upgrade to paid, then you may make more money. It's what Dropbox and Slack do.

(I work at Nylas.)

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by gregman1 »

suprfnk wrote: post #38
g105b wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The trouble isn't electron/webkit, it's the tonne of JavaScript frameworks that are used to emulate what HTTP already does very efficiently (pages, links, requests, responses, etc.). One day someone will build a good Electron app.

> One day someone will build a good Electron app. Visual Studio Code is very good in my opinion. It can be done.

It's the best electron app possible but it is still a very bad app.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by grinich »

Jaepa wrote: post #53
romanovcode wrote: post #22

Wait, so Nylas was free, then it was paid and now it's free again? Did I understand correctly?

Nylas has somewhat of a weird model. The Nylas client doesn't connect to you mail provider directly, instead the Nylas client connects to the Nylas Sync Engine. It used to be that using this API for this was a couple hundred a year, per account. Both the client and the sync engine are open source, so you've always been able to host your own. https://github.com/nylas/sync-engine

Did you read the article posted today? This is literally what we changed and is no longer true. :)

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by grinich »

toyg wrote: post #37
grinich wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah we haven't done much testing on 9 year old laptops. It seems fast enough on machines from the last 3-4 years.

So much for people saying "machines now are good enough for most basic uses and don't need upgrading anymore"... I guess Intel should be thankful for The Rise Of Electron Apps.

They probably work with software written 8-9 years ago, though!
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