Additionally, Outlook’s reputation for stability and performance has probably had a bad effect on Xobni.. I know I uninstalled it in frustration after a little while because it made sucky Outlook crash even more.
My vote is do it all in the cloud, do it with Gmail and its extensive (and growing) set of email related APIs, and if you find that there’s a need to rewrite a mail client (and deal with all the engineering cost and user inertia that involves), then do it after you’ve validated your approach to notifications and de-cluttering on top of a platform that already has traction. ;-) From: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com [mailto:silicon-beach-austra...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Phil Sim Sent: Monday, 10 January 2011 5:42 PM To: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Project Inbox ZERO - I'm looking for co-founders... But the other thing with plugins is it seems difficult to cover both Outlook and Gmail. Even Xobni who has a shitload of money are still Outlook only, even though they've been talking about doing Gmail as well for ever. On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Charles Ma <chuck...@gmail.com<mailto:chuck...@gmail.com>> wrote: Just to add to the list of companies in that space, boomerang for gmail plugin (http://www.boomeranggmail.com/) lets you schedule emails to be sent later and 'snoozes' email to view later like you described. I personally like the plugin approach because it let's you keep using the same email client you're familiar with (in this case gmail). Cheers, Charles On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Bart Jellema <b...@rtje.net<mailto:b...@rtje.net>> wrote: Hi Chris, thanks for that, I hadn't seen it yet... it's an interesting site, but still doesn't really solve the problem I think. There are many products out there that solve part of the problem, we'd like to combine the best of these solutions and add a few ideas of our own. I've looked at a fair few solutions out there: otherinbox.com<http://otherinbox.com> ($3.8M+ in funding) xobni.com<http://xobni.com> ($30M+ in funding) sanebox.com<http://sanebox.com> liaise.com<http://liaise.com> (funding from Southern Cross?) clearcontext.com<http://clearcontext.com> ($500k funding) nutshellmail.com<http://nutshellmail.com> GMail Priority Inbox GMail labs features unsubscribe.com<http://unsubscribe.com> ($2.1M+ in funding) Spokeo.com This is great because it validates that there is a problem and a need for a solution. On Jan 10, 3:45 pm, Chris Were <chris.w...@gmail.com<mailto:chris.w...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi Bart, > > Have you seen threadsy.com<http://threadsy.com>? It sounds similar. > > Cheers, > Chris > > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Bart Jellema > <b...@rtje.net<mailto:b...@rtje.net>> wrote: > > Project Inbox ZERO – Who wants to join? > > >http://blog.bartjellema.com/2011/01/10/project-inbox-zero-who-wants-t... > > > Email used to be fun. Sometimes I got an email, I responded to it and > > all was good. Now I get 100 emails a day and spent way too much time > > dealing with the dreaded email. At the same time email clients have > > hardly changed in the last 20 years. We now have HTML emails > > (unfortunately) and threading (thanks gmail!). But that’s about it. > > It’s time to reinvent this tool to bring it into this day and age. > > This is the goal of Project Inbox ZERO. > > > Imagine an inbox that isn’t cluttered with facebook notifications and > > newsletters, but only has “real” emails and the other messages are > > converted into what they actually are: notifications and newsletters. > > Do you ever find yourself scrolling back through emails trying to find > > someones phone number? What if your email client was smart enough to > > automatically collect and organize this information from your emails? > > How nice would it be if you had all relevant information at your > > fingertips when you received an email from someone: Some photos, their > > latest twitter updates, what social sites they are on and whether you > > have connected yet. > > > Are reply and forward really the only 2 things we do with emails? What > > about things like: “Turn into todo item”, “Snooze”, “Enter this > > invoice into my accounting system”, “Send a canned response”, “This > > email is way too long, please summerize”, etc, etc > > > Personally I believe email clients are still stuck in the 80′s and > > it’s time to build an email client for this day and age. Let’s make > > email fun again! I’ve started development and I’m looking for co- > > founders that are as excited about this as I am to join Project Inbox > > ZERO. Interested? 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