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I don't quite understand how the business model of the Nylas platform that this client depends on works. Since it provides up to 10 accounts for free, it looks

by devit 11y ago

I don't quite understand how the business model of the Nylas platform that this client depends on works. Since it provides up to 10 accounts for free, it looks like that end-users (for whom 10 accounts are more then enough) are not supposed to be the paying customers, but rather other companies that want to integrate with Gmail, etc. But... does this mean that these companies are supposed to encourage the user to connect their e-mail accounts to the company's Nylas platform account, thus giving Nylas all the user's e-mails and weakening e-mail privacy even more? Or is the business model something else...?

wanderfowl 11y ago
We're not paying for it, so we can only assume that we (or more likely, all of our emails) are actually the product here.
- zeromantic 11y ago
  Or it could become an e-mail version of the google play store.
grinich 11y ago
Nylas CEO here-- we build infrastructure that powers apps and developers pay us to run it (like AWS). Check out a few here: https://www.nylas.com/use_cases https://www.nylas.com/use_cases N1 is a new platform, and fits within our free usage for developer accounts. Paid features (potentially via paid plugins) are coming later. For now, we're focused on ironing out the UI/UX bugs, scaling onboarding system, and opening the codebase to developers. We're a product company, not an advertising company. We have no plans to sell user data or build the kind of targeting/tracking systems used by Facebook and Google. Our goal is to build rich new experiences and tools on top of email that empower developers and end-users. Privacy and security are obviously hugely important to us, and we know that it's our job to earn your trust every day. It's one of the reasons we've open sourced nearly all of our codebase. We make money to continue developing this product. Does that make sense? Happy to dive in more if you'd like, or you can ping me directly: mg@nylas.com

by devit 11y ago

wanderfowl 11y ago

We're not paying for it, so we can only assume that we (or more likely, all of our emails) are actually the product here.

zeromantic 11y ago
Or it could become an e-mail version of the google play store.

grinich 11y ago

Nylas CEO here-- we build infrastructure that powers apps and developers pay us to run it (like AWS). Check out a few here: https://www.nylas.com/use_cases https://www.nylas.com/use_cases N1 is a new platform, and fits within our free usage for developer accounts. Paid features (potentially via paid plugins) are coming later. For now, we're focused on ironing out the UI/UX bugs, scaling onboarding system, and opening the codebase to developers. We're a product company, not an advertising company. We have no plans to sell user data or build the kind of targeting/tracking systems used by Facebook and Google. Our goal is to build rich new experiences and tools on top of email that empower developers and end-users. Privacy and security are obviously hugely important to us, and we know that it's our job to earn your trust every day. It's one of the reasons we've open sourced nearly all of our codebase. We make money to continue developing this product. Does that make sense? Happy to dive in more if you'd like, or you can ping me directly: mg@nylas.com