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Ask HN: Someone working on a Inbox (by Gmail) alternative?

22 points by shafyy 8y ago

All I want is to have reminders/todo's in the same list as my emails. I don't want anything else. Just plain and simple. Would pay $10/month for it. No Slack or Gdocs or whatever integrations. Do you know anyone working on this?

hustlinhack 8y ago
One of my buddies is working on this, you may find it helpful: https://kanbanmail.app/ https://kanbanmail.app/
- shafyy 8y ago
  Thanks for sharing, my feedback (only for my case, so don't take it as absolute): - Too complicated - Mobile app is a must for email - Can't add reminders
comboy 8y ago
Would you trust some fresh company with your e-mail? (remember about the "I forgot my password" feature on accounts associated with that e-mail)
motiw 8y ago
I am the developer of https://www.centask.com https://www.centask.com it has reminders and todo's with Gmail emails in the same list or hierarchy
- shafyy 8y ago
  Cool. In my case, I would need a better UI and a mobile client (from what I can see from your videos it doesn't have both).
troydavis 8y ago
Airmail for macOS tries to do that: http://docs.airmailapp.com/airmail-for-mac/services-provided-by-airmail/todo-done-memo-airmail-for-macos http://docs.airmailapp.com/airmail-for-mac/services-provided..., https://thesweetsetup.com/apps/favorite-email-client-os-x/ https://thesweetsetup.com/apps/favorite-email-client-os-x/
- shafyy 8y ago
  Looks cool, but it doesn't seem that one can add reminders to the same hierarchy as emails. Also, I have an Android.
  - himitsu 8y ago
    Yes, reminders in the same hierarchy as emails is the secret sauce of Inbox for me. Doesn’t look like any alternative has it.
sparticvs 8y ago
I'm very tempted to create this...
greenleafjacob 8y ago
Superhuman https://superhuman.com/ https://superhuman.com/
- shafyy 8y ago
  As I understand it you can't add Inbox-style reminders, can you? Also, it's $35/month and it has a lot of feature that I don't need (like collecting peoples Social Media profiles etc.)
  - gakos 8y ago
    You can set reminders for emails to come back to your inbox both at send and separately when reviewing email. It also has read receipts. And the hotkeys and shortcuts are super powerful. Worth the $ if you have to spend a lot of time in email for the efficiency increase alone.
    - Fire-Dragon-DoL 8y ago
      It's not the reminder of emails that the OP is talking about. You can do that in Gmail. It's the freedom of adding any reminder to your inbox, not related to emails, that made a huge difference.
sawmurai 8y ago
FastMail.com
foobarbazetc 8y ago
There’s no real money in this, because once you need to build push notifications of new emails, the cost is untenable.
JoeyTawadrous 8y ago
I'm so devastated that Google Inbox is closing down, I decided to recreate it! Feature for feature. https://inboxzeroemail.com https://inboxzeroemail.com I simply cannot go back to using Gmail. Can you?
Fire-Dragon-DoL 8y ago
Same here, looking hard for it. I'm even considering writing it myself.