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It's an interesting concept, and I will always give a lot of credit for the sheer act of building something. But talk to us about the need and the use case here
by jonnathanson 14y ago
It's an interesting concept, and I will always give a lot of credit for the sheer act of building something. But talk to us about the need and the use case here. Snapchat I understand -- but is there really a big need for self-destructing emails? If anything, the real problem in the email space is long-term storage and management.
I see the email space and the SMS/text space diverging into very separate use cases: email for long form communications that, if anything, are to be saved and filed; SMS for short-form communications that are disposable (literally, in the case of Snapchat, or figuratively). I get that there are long-form communications that are sensitive, and that we sometimes wish wouldn't stick around forever. But what proportion of all email conversations do we think this use case represents?
- rxl 14y agoYou bring up a valid concern - I'd say that this isn't something that you'd use all the time with your email, but it has its time and place (just like off-the-record gchat), and when it is needed, it really comes in handy.
- shurcooL 14y agoI don't think there should be such a drastic boundary between SMS and email, IMO the separation between the two should be more freeform and vague.