No screenshot at least?

Nice! Two suggestions on the landing page: add a screenshot to grab attention, and, most importantly, identify some truly unique features that separate your product from the competition. You are entering a crowded space, you gotta sell on unique features! Just my two cents...

Thanks for sharing us, Tom! We're building Polymail as a simple, beautiful native email experience while providing access to the best email productivity features like Email Tracking, Send Later, Undo Send, and a whole lot more!

We're currently in private Alpha, but if anyone from DN wants early access please DM me at https://twitter.com/foolywk and I'll add you to our next release :)

Happy Friday, everyone!

Visual design is clean.

Personally, I'm not a fan of the wonky desktop design pattern of "sliding" right or left on an element to then - activate/ utilize another control. Even on a laptop with a trackpad, the movement feels inefficient and clumsy.

Makes sense for interaction on mobile devices. Seems silly on desktop devices given the human computer interaction.

One long comment on the nature of email itself here.

I believe email is having an existential crisis.

Yes, I know the email marketers will say otherwise, and the business results email generates is hard to argue with, but - remember, email has a locked in “Home Thumb Advantage” on many of our mobile devices.

It’s there, we check it out of boredom.

I do indeed use email, but nowhere near as much as I used to.

In my design business, I view most email based communication with customers to be a failure in the process. Project communications landing in email get lost in the sauce with email notifications from X number of apps barking at us. Spam from every other Saas and their brothers and sisters trying to “provide value” in our emails. Thus, we use Slack + Invision - and we usually set up a new Slack team with customers to centralize all communications there, as it’s more direct and harder to “get lost” in the email inbox.

The business communications that do end up in my email inbox tend to be opportunities. So, I do pay attention to those emails. “Hey, would you like to take a call to discuss a project”.

Maybe the emails exchanged are - “did you receive our proposal” - “did you get the invoice”.

Otherwise, the emails tend to be longer form communications. I’m speaking at an event next week in Singapore and the customer, their PR firm and myself have a long chain of emails coordinating the details for the event.

That makes sense for email, and tracking down details in those emails for say - flights, hotels, and so on, can be taxing.

But, as I scan my inbox here - I don’t see much else.

In terms of customers, business prospects and our communications, the passive water cooler style banter, bonding, “checking in” - even that is happening in a stitched together digital framework of apps from Viber, What’sApp, WeChat, Line, Skype chat, LinkedIn (barf), Facebook Messenger, you name it - I could care less. I’m mostly agnostic on these things, except for LinkedIn. It’s too ugly and junky, I will move conversations out of there. lol - For the others, wherever, whenever.

In terms of communicating with my friends;

Email is dead.

I can’t remember the last time I have used email to communicate back and forth with a friend.

Polymail is one of the best email apps I've used to date. Elegant design, UI/UX and it has all the top features, plus the ability to see contact history! 10/10 would ditch Gmail/Mailbox again. Go Polymail!!

Are you building this, Tom? This is awesome. Nylas N1 just massively failed me and I moved back to Sparrow last night. I'ts amazing that after all these years Sparrow is the still the fastest and best mail client on the Mac.

Hoping that this becomes a relevant contender.

For anyone interested, they've just made their debut on PH, with what looks like guaranteed Alpha invites for product hunt members.

https://www.producthunt.com/tech/polymail-2

Looks very nice! Is this meant to be a standalone IMAP client or connect to a Polymail server?

email tracking is super useful!

Could easy be a landing page for anything.

Overall design and feature implications look solid, but the experience is the make or break for me. (The screenshot looks a little busy IMO, but since it's just a mock, I'll wait till I see the real thing.) Airmail released with so many of the same features and conventions as Sparrow, but it just didn't quite do it for me. I never felt that it had quite the same finesse or attention to detail, and so while I eventually switched to the Gmail/Inbox web interface, I continued using Sparrow for quite a while after the plug was pulled.

Looking forward to seeing what Polymail brings to the game and would love an early invite to try it out and provide feedback, if possible!

Looks beautiful and promising as a replacement for Mailbox. 2 questions:

1. Can you change the swipe patterns (screenshot shows swipe left for archive, but my muscles will swipe right...). Can we have multiple swipe patterns like in Mailbox?

2. Mobile app? Will iOS mobile come this year before Windows next year?

This looks really great, can't wait to try it out. Mailbox has become almost unusable on the desktop. If this becomes stable I would gladly fork over cold, hard cash. Please charge!

Looks amazing. Is this a native app or running in a Chromium shell?

My main issue with Nylas N1 is that it's such a resource/energy hog. Native apps like Sparrow and Airmail are pretty lean by comparison, it does help to conserve battery life a little bit.

What's the USP here? Nice design by the way. :)

Any plans to bring this to Windows?