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I built Pony [0], an email platform that delivers once a day, to see if it is possible for a platform that doesn't manipulate user psychology to succeed. In th

I built Pony [0], an email platform that delivers once a day, to see if it is possible for a platform that doesn't manipulate user psychology to succeed. In the UI I eschew every traditional user manipulation technique I could think of: there are no notifications, there are no unread message counts. There even isn’t read/unread message state. It's launching now, so finally I get to find out: can a platform that doesn't vie for attention, that lets users create their own unguided, unprompted experience succeed? [0]: https://www.pony.gg https://www.pony.gg

zwkrt 8y ago
I like it, it's the exact opposite of Inbox
- dmitryminkovsky 8y ago
  Thank you. That's a great way to put it. I also liked when someone recently described it as an "anti-technology". Why is it often easy to describe something in terms of what it's not?
  - afarrell 8y ago
    Because people think in terms of responding to stimulus. It is a lot easier to see pain points and to say, "I don't like that" because the problem is concrete. To describe something in terms of what you want, you've got to do the work of imagining something new -- and thats hard.
dundercoder 8y ago
Non instant email. Very interesting.
- deleted 8y ago
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- dmitryminkovsky 8y ago
  Thank you, thank you :) I have been enjoying it.
BucketSort 8y ago
Look at this persons profile. He's a spammer.
- afarrell 8y ago
  I'm not seeing evidence of that from his profile. I see evidence that he's finding threads that are tangentially related to a problem and posting a solution which he built. As someone who has been looking for something very close to this and has thought about building it, I'm grateful that he's posting it here.
afarrell 8y ago
Suggestions: - Weekly/Fortnightly/monthly delivery. I want a way to say to an old friend "hey, lets keep up with each other every fortnight. - Offline mode. I want to be able to take 5 letters to a park near my house, turn off wifi, and just write with a clear head.
- dmitryminkovsky 8y ago
  Hi Andrew, thanks so much for your feedback. > - Weekly/Fortnightly/monthly delivery. I want a way to say to an old friend "hey, lets keep up with each other every fortnight. This is probably the most requested feature right now. I want this too but decided I had to keep it as simple as possible for the launch. But this will definitely be fleshed out as there becomes room to evolve the concept. Turning those delivery time radio buttons into check boxes will be exciting. I, for one, would like a delivery mode that syncs up with sunrise/midday/sunset at your geolocation. This will be fun to explore. > - Offline mode. I want to be able to take 5 letters to a park near my house, turn off wifi, and just write with a clear head. This is already in the works. I want this too. I even have a ServiceWorker installed for another reason (https://stackoverflow.com/a/55245528/741970 https://stackoverflow.com/a/55245528/741970) but will leverage it for proper offline functionality as well.

zwkrt 8y ago

I like it, it's the exact opposite of Inbox

dmitryminkovsky 8y ago
Thank you. That's a great way to put it. I also liked when someone recently described it as an "anti-technology". Why is it often easy to describe something in terms of what it's not?
- afarrell 8y ago
  Because people think in terms of responding to stimulus. It is a lot easier to see pain points and to say, "I don't like that" because the problem is concrete. To describe something in terms of what you want, you've got to do the work of imagining something new -- and thats hard.

dundercoder 8y ago

Non instant email. Very interesting.

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dmitryminkovsky 8y ago
Thank you, thank you :) I have been enjoying it.

BucketSort 8y ago

Look at this persons profile. He's a spammer.

afarrell 8y ago
I'm not seeing evidence of that from his profile. I see evidence that he's finding threads that are tangentially related to a problem and posting a solution which he built. As someone who has been looking for something very close to this and has thought about building it, I'm grateful that he's posting it here.

afarrell 8y ago

Suggestions: - Weekly/Fortnightly/monthly delivery. I want a way to say to an old friend "hey, lets keep up with each other every fortnight. - Offline mode. I want to be able to take 5 letters to a park near my house, turn off wifi, and just write with a clear head.

dmitryminkovsky 8y ago
Hi Andrew, thanks so much for your feedback. > - Weekly/Fortnightly/monthly delivery. I want a way to say to an old friend "hey, lets keep up with each other every fortnight. This is probably the most requested feature right now. I want this too but decided I had to keep it as simple as possible for the launch. But this will definitely be fleshed out as there becomes room to evolve the concept. Turning those delivery time radio buttons into check boxes will be exciting. I, for one, would like a delivery mode that syncs up with sunrise/midday/sunset at your geolocation. This will be fun to explore. > - Offline mode. I want to be able to take 5 letters to a park near my house, turn off wifi, and just write with a clear head. This is already in the works. I want this too. I even have a ServiceWorker installed for another reason (https://stackoverflow.com/a/55245528/741970 https://stackoverflow.com/a/55245528/741970) but will leverage it for proper offline functionality as well.