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Looks great! I'm always curious what it means when people say they've worked x years on something. Was this a full time project @ 40/h a week every week, or mor

by abeiz 8y ago

Looks great! I'm always curious what it means when people say they've worked x years on something. Was this a full time project @ 40/h a week every week, or more of a few hours on the weekends, or maybe something in the middle?

muszc-master 8y ago
Hello! It has been full-time for the last 2 years!
- _RedPanda 8y ago
  This probably means that the software is not going to be free, right?
  - discordance 8y ago
    I hope it's paid. This guy deserves to get paid for his awesome work, and I will trust it more if I'm paying $.
    - Boulth 8y ago
      I agree! I'm frequently paying for software even if I won't use it after a year just to test how well it works. Unpaid is not sustainable. But having source code (Maybe GPL?) is also important.
  - red_admiral 8y ago
    If the choice is between paying with money and paying with my personal data, managing my e-mail is one of the things where I'm happy to pull out the credit card. (That's why my e-mail accounts are on places like fastmail instead of gmail.) I get paid money for the software I develop too, after all.
    - SyneRyder 8y ago
      For some of us, email is so important that we are prepared to pay a LOT for a really great client. I'm currently paying around $150/year for Photoshop - email is more important to me than Photoshop. For the right program, I would happily pay $99 for a major release. I think that's what I used to pay for Eudora many years ago. Postbox currently only charges $40 for a lifetime free-upgrades license. In my case, they are definitely leaving money on the table, I would've paid a lot more.
      - dotancohen 8y ago
        What features of Postbox do you use that are not available in Claws (or derivatives) or Thunderbird? Serious question, I've love a better email experience. In any case Postbox is not available on Linux, but I'd still like to know.
        SyneRyder 8y ago
        It's so long since I've switched that I'm not sure anymore, but Postbox tried to be more Mac-like and had native integration with macOS Contacts instead of separate address books. I think it had some filter rules Thunderbird didn't have, and faster indexed search. But now, I use the keyboard driven Tagging & Quick Move features [1] a lot. They work a bit like Alfred [2]. To file a message in my Filtered folder, I type "v fil Enter" and by the time I've typed v, an Alfred-like window pops up that autocompletes the full folder names as I type - so by the time I get to 'fil', it's autocompleted to the right one and I can hit enter. Standard keyboard shortcuts too like j to junk, a to archive, etc. I'm sure Thunderbird also has these via extensions, but I like having it in the core product supported by the core developers. There's a word count warning feature that I use a lot too, because I tend to type a lot. The word count turns red when I go over my suggested self-imposed limit, or you can set a timer for when you've been composing one email for too long. EDIT: I saw you asked elsewhere about editing the From field, Postbox has a pulldown menu on each message you compose where you can choose from a list of profiles / aliases you create. Each can even have their own SMTP server details & default signatures & are separate from inbox accounts. You can switch signatures on individual messages too. [1] https://www.postbox-inc.com/features https://www.postbox-inc.com/features [2] https://www.alfredapp.com/ https://www.alfredapp.com/
  - progx 8y ago
    No problem for paying a good mail-client. I use it every day and if it saves me time (e.g. conversiation view, or better search) i will pay for it. Would be nice if a bigger company sponsors such a project, then a greater audience will use it and the Developer could concentrate on developing and not on selling.
- vijaybritto 8y ago
  I hope you make it paid by freemium method!
- yani 8y ago
  Did someone review your code? 2 years working on your own sounds like a caveman.
  - muszc-master 8y ago
    Yes, I was basically a caveman, and I'm currently looking for more developers
    - newscracker 8y ago
      Please don’t take this negatively. The “bus factor” here is 1. That’d be a concern for many users (especially ones who have used corporate email systems and have higher expectations on the longevity of a client). More so when combined with the other feedback I gave on having export options for the mail to standard formats.
    - nhooyr 8y ago
      Haha, that's awesome man!

by abeiz 8y ago

muszc-master 8y ago

Hello! It has been full-time for the last 2 years!

_RedPanda 8y ago
This probably means that the software is not going to be free, right?
- discordance 8y ago
  I hope it's paid. This guy deserves to get paid for his awesome work, and I will trust it more if I'm paying $.
  - Boulth 8y ago
    I agree! I'm frequently paying for software even if I won't use it after a year just to test how well it works. Unpaid is not sustainable. But having source code (Maybe GPL?) is also important.
- red_admiral 8y ago
  If the choice is between paying with money and paying with my personal data, managing my e-mail is one of the things where I'm happy to pull out the credit card. (That's why my e-mail accounts are on places like fastmail instead of gmail.) I get paid money for the software I develop too, after all.
  - SyneRyder 8y ago
    For some of us, email is so important that we are prepared to pay a LOT for a really great client. I'm currently paying around $150/year for Photoshop - email is more important to me than Photoshop. For the right program, I would happily pay $99 for a major release. I think that's what I used to pay for Eudora many years ago. Postbox currently only charges $40 for a lifetime free-upgrades license. In my case, they are definitely leaving money on the table, I would've paid a lot more.
    - dotancohen 8y ago
      What features of Postbox do you use that are not available in Claws (or derivatives) or Thunderbird? Serious question, I've love a better email experience. In any case Postbox is not available on Linux, but I'd still like to know.
      - SyneRyder 8y ago
        It's so long since I've switched that I'm not sure anymore, but Postbox tried to be more Mac-like and had native integration with macOS Contacts instead of separate address books. I think it had some filter rules Thunderbird didn't have, and faster indexed search. But now, I use the keyboard driven Tagging & Quick Move features [1] a lot. They work a bit like Alfred [2]. To file a message in my Filtered folder, I type "v fil Enter" and by the time I've typed v, an Alfred-like window pops up that autocompletes the full folder names as I type - so by the time I get to 'fil', it's autocompleted to the right one and I can hit enter. Standard keyboard shortcuts too like j to junk, a to archive, etc. I'm sure Thunderbird also has these via extensions, but I like having it in the core product supported by the core developers. There's a word count warning feature that I use a lot too, because I tend to type a lot. The word count turns red when I go over my suggested self-imposed limit, or you can set a timer for when you've been composing one email for too long. EDIT: I saw you asked elsewhere about editing the From field, Postbox has a pulldown menu on each message you compose where you can choose from a list of profiles / aliases you create. Each can even have their own SMTP server details & default signatures & are separate from inbox accounts. You can switch signatures on individual messages too. [1] https://www.postbox-inc.com/features https://www.postbox-inc.com/features [2] https://www.alfredapp.com/ https://www.alfredapp.com/
- progx 8y ago
  No problem for paying a good mail-client. I use it every day and if it saves me time (e.g. conversiation view, or better search) i will pay for it. Would be nice if a bigger company sponsors such a project, then a greater audience will use it and the Developer could concentrate on developing and not on selling.
vijaybritto 8y ago
I hope you make it paid by freemium method!
yani 8y ago
Did someone review your code? 2 years working on your own sounds like a caveman.
- muszc-master 8y ago
  Yes, I was basically a caveman, and I'm currently looking for more developers
  - newscracker 8y ago
    Please don’t take this negatively. The “bus factor” here is 1. That’d be a concern for many users (especially ones who have used corporate email systems and have higher expectations on the longevity of a client). More so when combined with the other feedback I gave on having export options for the mail to standard formats.
  - nhooyr 8y ago
    Haha, that's awesome man!