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

by romanovcode 10y ago

OJFord 10y ago
There's still a paid version (in fact I think this is a price bump?) - but there's now a free tier too.
- romanovcode 10y ago
  Yeah, maybe if author would charge 7 bucks in total instead of 7 bucks per month he would not have this problem.
  - g105b 10y ago
    $12 per month is steep for an email client.
    - dublinben 10y ago
      Especially one that is getting access to all your data. I would expect it to be one or the other. If I'm paying you, I should have absolute privacy.
      - degenerate 10y ago
        Agree.
      - termhn 10y ago
        In this day and age, open source tools are usually more private than their closed source counterparts. Usually. But, they also usually require you to do extra configuration or setup to get the privacy benefits
    - OJFord 10y ago
      I agree. I do really like Nylas, it's mostly a pleasure to use. But I'm using it with Gmail which costs me like $2pm for 100GB storage; the core (with I think 20GB?) is free (at the point of use, blah-blah advertising). Is Nylas, the thing through which I access my free/almost-free email really adding $12pm value? I'm not so sure.
  - athenot 10y ago
    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.
    - jwong_ 10y ago
      $12/month now
    - ashark 10y ago
      Maybe I'm weird, but it's worth more than 10min/month to me not to have another recurring charge on my CC, before the amount of money is even considered.
    - krzyk 10y ago
      It is worth if it weren't a subscription model. People are reluctant to have another monthly bill. Give me a price for the package and be gone with it.
Jaepa 10y ago
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 https://github.com/nylas/sync-engine
- grinich 10y ago
  Did you read the article posted today? This is literally what we changed and is no longer true. :)
  - Jaepa 10y ago
    Hey Michael. Honestly, I usually will skip the FAQs, which is the only place I could find reference to this decoupling.
sachinag 10y ago
Nylas Basic is free forever. We hope you'll like it so much that you'll upgrade to Pro. Essentially, we started as a free beta at the very beginning, launched with free trial last year, and now have switched to freemium (with a free trial on the Pro version still there). Does that make sense? (I work at Nylas.)

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

OJFord 10y ago

There's still a paid version (in fact I think this is a price bump?) - but there's now a free tier too.

romanovcode 10y ago
Yeah, maybe if author would charge 7 bucks in total instead of 7 bucks per month he would not have this problem.
- g105b 10y ago
  $12 per month is steep for an email client.
  - dublinben 10y ago
    Especially one that is getting access to all your data. I would expect it to be one or the other. If I'm paying you, I should have absolute privacy.
    - degenerate 10y ago
      Agree.
    - termhn 10y ago
      In this day and age, open source tools are usually more private than their closed source counterparts. Usually. But, they also usually require you to do extra configuration or setup to get the privacy benefits
  - OJFord 10y ago
    I agree. I do really like Nylas, it's mostly a pleasure to use. But I'm using it with Gmail which costs me like $2pm for 100GB storage; the core (with I think 20GB?) is free (at the point of use, blah-blah advertising). Is Nylas, the thing through which I access my free/almost-free email really adding $12pm value? I'm not so sure.
- athenot 10y ago
  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.
  - jwong_ 10y ago
    $12/month now
  - ashark 10y ago
    Maybe I'm weird, but it's worth more than 10min/month to me not to have another recurring charge on my CC, before the amount of money is even considered.
  - krzyk 10y ago
    It is worth if it weren't a subscription model. People are reluctant to have another monthly bill. Give me a price for the package and be gone with it.

Jaepa 10y ago

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

grinich 10y ago
Did you read the article posted today? This is literally what we changed and is no longer true. :)
- Jaepa 10y ago
  Hey Michael. Honestly, I usually will skip the FAQs, which is the only place I could find reference to this decoupling.

sachinag 10y ago

Nylas Basic is free forever. We hope you'll like it so much that you'll upgrade to Pro. Essentially, we started as a free beta at the very beginning, launched with free trial last year, and now have switched to freemium (with a free trial on the Pro version still there). Does that make sense? (I work at Nylas.)