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These guys need to work on their message. Here was my read of the article: 1. Some company I've never heard of is shutting down. I'll go read about it. 2. "
by jasonkester 9y ago
These guys need to work on their message. Here was my read of the article:
1. Some company I've never heard of is shutting down. I'll go read about it.
2. "Exciting Year", "Incredible Journey" They're shutting down their Mail Thing. Raising prices for old users to keep the lights on until "sunset" date. Ouch.
3. I wonder what their "Mail Thing" was. I'll click the homepage.
4. Strange. Looks like the rest of the company hasn't got the memo yet. They're still talking about their mail thing on the homepage as though it still exists. Looks like some Sync API for email providers. Shame. That might have been useful.
5. (later) Read discussion here. Evidently the thing they shut down was some tiny side project and the company still exists. Did not get that at all from the shutdown notice.
- maxyme 9y agoIt was my understanding that they made a desktop (electron based) mail client to showcase their serverside features. But now they're saying they will only sell the serverside features now and the desktop client is too expensive to maintain. Is this correct? I haven't kept up with Nylas, all I know is they stored all your emails on their server at first, but then got rid of it because of server load and people didn't like it.
- AsyncAwait 9y agoYeah, mostly correct, but Nylas Mail did no longer store your emails on their servers, only the previous version, (Nylas N1) did.
- sachinag 9y agoThis is correct - it wasn't just that it was too expensive to maintain the client; it split our focus between the client and the API. So we decided to focus on the API since we have a larger business there and we wanted folks who work at Nylas to be less stressed out.