That said, Polymail does nothing for me business wise. I don't use it for my team, nor do I intend to any time soon. It serves me well as a simple email client for personal needs, but that's as far as things go.
They, along with a few other SaaS companies seem to be intent on solving problems I don't need solving or prioritising the wrong ones.
It's all good and well to say that other apps failed in this space because they didn't have a strong business model, which is fair enough but if you're not solving the right problems for your users, you're not going to get very far.
I really can't believe, that in 2018, we still dont have decent solutions for email collaboration for teams and for customer relationship management. We have one app in this space that has done a half decent job , which is Front but I still can't persuade myself to move to it. It has a confusing user experience and is not well priced.
So we're left with stitching things together through various tools which Polymail claims to solve but doesn't.
So you have stuff like Salesforce, with huge barriers to entry... But you can basically do everything. Sure, you might still need a Salesforce expert , but that's easier than 2 or 3 developers for a hand rolled thing that doesn't really integrate with anything.
Say what you will about paper workflows, but being able to paperclip stuff together, copy, write anywhere, etc. makes it pretty flexible. Lots of the cheaper tools with "easy onboarding" on the other hand...
For me the killer features would be:
1. Look through my entire history of emails to figure out who my friends are
2. Remind me to email them more frequently
Like a CRM, but its just to email to friends.
Is there anything of this sort out there for individuals for networking purposes? Not trying to sell these folks anything. I want to be told what my last touchpoint with someone was, when, where, regardless of what platform that was done on. That would be so useful.
I think Accompany was supposed to do that originally but they pivoted into something else?
The MacOS app does not follow normal keybinding conventions. Specifically, ESC causes the app to exit full screen and cmd+shift+f doesn’t enter full screen. No option to customize either.
The iOS app will instantly show notifications for new emails, but upon opening up the app you have to wait 5-10 seconds for the emails to appear (while gmail is instant).
That said I enjoy the inbox zero image, snoozing of messages, and overall style.
Where is the setting to disable loading of remote resources?
(Personally, I'm loving Missive - https://missiveapp.com/ - which seems targeted at a similar niche and has some very slick execution.)
