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Polymail (YC S16) looks to unify business email tools into a single web app

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Re: Polymail (YC S16) looks to unify business email tools into a single web app

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Post by projectramo »

There are so many email apps and clients out now that a user never knows which ones are worth trying.

For me the killer features would be:

1. Look through my entire history of emails to figure out who my friends are

2. Remind me to email them more frequently

Like a CRM, but its just to email to friends.

Re: Polymail (YC S16) looks to unify business email tools into a single web app

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Post by benhatten »

projectramo wrote: post #2

There are so many email apps and clients out now that a user never knows which ones are worth trying. For me the killer features would be: 1. Look through my entire history of emails to figure out who my friends are 2. Remind me to email them more frequently Like a CRM, but its just to email to friends.

On that request - I would try contactually. Pretty good on that front.

Re: Polymail (YC S16) looks to unify business email tools into a single web app

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Post by BadassFractal »

benhatten wrote: post #3
projectramo wrote: post #2

There are so many email apps and clients out now that a user never knows which ones are worth trying. For me the killer features would be: 1. Look through my entire history of emails to figure out who my friends are 2. Remind me to email them more frequently Like a CRM, but its just to email to friends.

On that request - I would try contactually. Pretty good on that front.

I really liked Contactually as a personal CRM because it could look into all the different messaging systems and tell me when I talked to someone last, but then I believe Facebook / LinkedIn etc shut down that functionality.

Is there anything of this sort out there for individuals for networking purposes? Not trying to sell these folks anything. I want to be told what my last touchpoint with someone was, when, where, regardless of what platform that was done on. That would be so useful.

I think Accompany was supposed to do that originally but they pivoted into something else?

Re: Polymail (YC S16) looks to unify business email tools into a single web app

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Post by capocannoniere »

projectramo wrote: post #2

There are so many email apps and clients out now that a user never knows which ones are worth trying. For me the killer features would be: 1. Look through my entire history of emails to figure out who my friends are 2. Remind me to email them more frequently Like a CRM, but its just to email to friends.

You can take a look at Joe Lonsdale's Affinity [1]

[1] https://affinity.co/

Re: Polymail (YC S16) looks to unify business email tools into a single web app

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Post by krmmalik »

I enjoy using Polymail. It has a very nice user experience, in fact probably one of the best experiences of any email app I have used personally. I have been using it for 3yrs at least.

That said, Polymail does nothing for me business wise. I don't use it for my team, nor do I intend to any time soon. It serves me well as a simple email client for personal needs, but that's as far as things go.

They, along with a few other SaaS companies seem to be intent on solving problems I don't need solving or prioritising the wrong ones.

It's all good and well to say that other apps failed in this space because they didn't have a strong business model, which is fair enough but if you're not solving the right problems for your users, you're not going to get very far.

I really can't believe, that in 2018, we still dont have decent solutions for email collaboration for teams and for customer relationship management. We have one app in this space that has done a half decent job , which is Front but I still can't persuade myself to move to it. It has a confusing user experience and is not well priced.

So we're left with stitching things together through various tools which Polymail claims to solve but doesn't.

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