MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform
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Re: MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform
#2This is great. We've used ContextIO in the past (they've been great) so good to see more ways to access user email data.
Any comparisons vs. contextIO? Do you index all the data yourselves, or proxy requests to the actual mail provider?
Re: MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform
#3In my opinion, the reason no one add "features" to an email client because it is just as fine as is. Please tell me one thing that a user (power or just every day user) really needs that is not supported by a reasonably recent email client? And no, every few people use emails as a todo list.
Re: MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform
#4What I would really love for someone to fix is how slow email is. Why is it so much slower to send an email than an SMS or FB message with the same contents?
Re: MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform
#5In my opinion, the reason no one add "features" to an email client because it is just as fine as is. Please tell me one thing that a user (power or just every day user) really needs that is not supported by a reasonably recent email client? And no, every few people use emails as a todo list.
The idea is that no single company or entity will be able to predict in the future what users need. Email is old, but it's far from perfect. I think a platform that lets developers today leverage their expertise on modern protocol technologies and practices is an excellent idea.
Re: MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform
#6What I would really love for someone to fix is how slow email is. Why is it so much slower to send an email than an SMS or FB message with the same contents?
There's no free lunch. FB (Or rather, Apple and Google's Push Notification Server they depend on) and SMS are centralized messaging systems and that's why they can be fast, whereas email is decentralized and designed to be "good enough", which makes it slow but as a result has other benefits that centralized messaging systems can't have
Re: MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform
#7What I would really love for someone to fix is how slow email is. Why is it so much slower to send an email than an SMS or FB message with the same contents?
There's no free lunch. FB (Or rather, Apple and Google's Push Notification Server they depend on) and SMS are centralized messaging systems and that's why they can be fast, whereas email is decentralized and designed to be "good enough", which makes it slow but as a result has other benefits that centralized messaging systems can't have
And for what it's worth (especially considering all that you've mentioned), email is still often quite fast.
Re: MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform
#8Very neat, congrats on the launch! Quick Q: are there any reference/demo clients out there that use this sync engine?
Even though I'm probably not you target audience, but I'd love to replace Outlook web client (and Gmail too) with something else.
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#9In my opinion, the reason no one add "features" to an email client because it is just as fine as is. Please tell me one thing that a user (power or just every day user) really needs that is not supported by a reasonably recent email client? And no, every few people use emails as a todo list.
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Re: MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform
#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.