ryanmickle

Hey HN, as an early user of Polymail (https://polymail.io) and friend of the founders, I invested (with money I didn't really have as a broke founder) in the company because it filled the huge gap left when Mailbox was shuttered soon after its acquisition. I really love productivity and communications tools, and love the vision Polymail had, to create the "Slack for external communications."

After years of iterating and building a ton of power user features, the founders didn't see light at the end of the tunnel, were looking for a soft landing, and I really wanted to be sure the product stayed around. I'd used and loved Polymail for so long, tried all the newer superlative-laden email tools, and found everything else to be too clunky or complicated.

I think that email still has a massive distance to go, and it hasn't evolved enough since we all were sharing invites to get early access to Gmail.

I have my own experiences and ideas, but I'm curious what you think... what do you find most frustrating about managing email? What would make it worth paying for?

Finally if you're interested in productivity/email, I'd love to offer give you an extra long trial on Polymail in exchange for your feedback and guidance. Just let me know you're interested here: https://forms.gle/urn2dNYyEH5dcPuH9

Who are the most genuinely helpful recruiters (individuals), who you've interacted with and why? Hoping this might be a good supplement to Who's Hiring.