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by plehoux 6y ago
Missive is geared towards small to midsize businesses as a collaborative platform to manage all communications (internal and external). We wrote this post explaining some of the differences: https://missiveapp.com/frontapp-v
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by plehoux 6y ago
Post author here, someone on Twitter asked to expand a bit on where our users came from, given some of you might have the same question. Early on we were featured by Apple couple of times + podcasts, but now, mainly a mix of word of mouth c
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How we bootstrapped a $1M ARR email client(missiveapp.com)
284 points by plehoux 6y ago|138 comments
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by plehoux 6y ago
We're in a competitive SAAS market, raised no money, don't do marketing, work exclusively on the product, and offer good customer support. Our competitors raised > 100 million dollars, and daily we get customers from them. And
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by plehoux 6y ago
The great https://tristanlabbe.com/
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by plehoux 6y ago
Short term roadmap includes calendar integration with Google/Office 365 (early January) + auto contact syncing with Google/Office 365 (end of January). After, the roadmap is open, but we will probably start working on analytics be
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by plehoux 6y ago
"Collaborative email on top of G Suite. The main thing we pay for is a comment box below each email thread. It allows us to quickly discuss emails without forwarding or copy/pasting in Slack. It also allows us to edit drafts colla
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by plehoux 6y ago
I'm the author, I totally agree.
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by plehoux 6y ago
Author here, to summarize the post, read tracking doesn’t really work, can be weaponized, is most certainly illegal in many places and is potentially deadly to our business. Pulling the plug seemed obvious to the four of us.
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Shared inbox – How businesses collaborate around email(missiveapp.com)
2 points by plehoux 6y ago|0 comments
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by plehoux 6y ago
The risk here, if I'm not mistaken, is far from being teens lip syncing, it's the ability for a foreign actor to control the algorithm of what Tik Tok users end up seeing in their feed days after days. This could potentially be us
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by plehoux 6y ago
It's either unregulated social networks are a threat to free and fair elections or they are not. If you have the former position, which seems to be embraced by the majority of HN users, you can't accept to have Tik Tok, a chinese
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by plehoux 6y ago
> If you want to access the markets of other countries, you should also open your market to them – that would be fair. I don't understand the relation from ^ with the rest of his take. He is saying the US should ban Tik Tok instead
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by plehoux 6y ago
Co-founder at Missive, an email client built entirely in HTML/JS; Electron on desktop; Cordova on mobile. You can try the app, it's way faster than Mail from Apple. Apple even featured the app multiple times on the mobile App stor
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by plehoux 6y ago
I think he is referencing those tweets: https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/126545757821512499...
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The Changelog – An Alternative Tool for Growing Your Business(missiveapp.com)
3 points by plehoux 7y ago|0 comments
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by plehoux 7y ago
I guess you've edited your comment. But FYI: > Quebec presents $4-billion surplus for 2019-20 amid booming economy https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-quebec-presen... This, even if population growth
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by plehoux 7y ago
Wouldn't Starlink by Space X solve this? Authoritarian govs. would make it illegal to subscribe... but like VPNs it would be very hard to police, even harder.
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by plehoux 7y ago
"I'll always invest in product and engineering over marketing" This is an often overlooked strategy from small to to big businesses, but one that pays off long term. We're a 3 people SASS having the same philosophy, and
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Gmail now show your recipient OOO message before you even send a msg(gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com)
3 points by plehoux 7y ago|0 comments
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by plehoux 7y ago
It's crazy the number of people expecting our SASS pricing to be negotiable. We offer one fair pricing to everyone and have no time to make special case pricing for every single user. I guess more prominent startups/companies embr
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by plehoux 7y ago
Sorry! Yes, we do. Assignment, comments, triaging, Out of office status and more. https://missiveapp.com/features
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by plehoux 7y ago
Thanks Elen! Disclosure: Missive is a Canny customer, Canny is Missive customer We love Canny at Missive! If curious how we use it checkout our Canny board: https://missive.canny.io And an example of users interacting with us on
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by plehoux 7y ago
One of our primary goals is to create a AAA email client that behaves like you expect an email client to. A second goal is to inject collaboration in the email experience. Those two goals make Missive a perfect candidate for email support.
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by plehoux 7y ago
I'm co-founder of Missive [1], mentioned in the post. If any of you have questions, I would be happy to answer them. [1] https://missiveapp.com/
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by plehoux 7y ago
This is the only reason we can as a tiny team of 3 keep pushing features/improvements[1] on all platforms. Not to say it's perfect. [1] https://missiveapp.com/changelog
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by plehoux 7y ago
Went into the why and how in this podcast https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/033-philippe-lehoux-of-...
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by plehoux 7y ago
Badge printing kits/holders are not free :) https://www.amazon.com/Avery-Badges-Lanyards-Holders-Inserts...
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by plehoux 7y ago
missiveapp.com and conferenceBadge.com, my two startups, have both been rejected at the interview phase. Our yearly revenue for both now stands in the 7 digits. We are still just a team of 3 + 1 employee, 100% bootstrapped. Life is good. My
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Hundreds of restaurants celebrating the best poutines in the world(lapoutineweek.com)
1 points by plehoux 8y ago|0 comments

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