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I used to be a diehard Apple Mail user. Do yourself a favour and click this to try out Spike. You can trust this company - they are in Israel which is a country which has to care about security like no otheryour privacy is more critical to their survival than it is to Amazon, Google, Microsoft or Apple who are all in the advertising business. It will work on top of your existing email and if you hate it you can delete it and it won’t matter.

It was good when I first switched to my first power pc based mac. But Apple has dropped the ball on this one. Over the holidays i decided it was time to destress and pay attention to solving my personal bottlenecks. Email was one source of stress.

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titleI looked at Hey from Basecamp - Jason Fried read this

I have great respect for this company. They have good ideas and make beautiful products.

It looked great except i didn’t use it for the same reason as everyone else. Jason Fried read this. No one wants to give up complete control of their email and switch to using your server.

Your product is never going to be more than a niche product if you don’t get your head out of your butt and pay attention - this is the bottleneck limiting your growth.

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titleI tried several applications - Trimbox - no communication

First i tried TrimBox - i bought a license. Initially was not impressed until i found a different mode to sort by largest sender:

No reply. Next!

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titleI found one annoying thing - but then it was fixed in the beta

I could not switch off beeps when sending an email. So I enrolled in the beta program with some help from Chat GPT to figure out.

I thought about it because our beta is usually better than our ‘shipped’ version.

I am using the beta from now on!

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titleI hope this company can grow to it's full potential

I think they have the potential to grow into something huge. Just they hope they stick it out and grow up into what they could be and don’t sell out for a quick buck to become another ho-hum division of Salesforce.

So far I think there major bottlenecks for growth are all going to be about trust.

  • Trust from consumers that their data will be confidential

  • Trust it won’t be hard to switch - it really isn’t

  • Trust from businesses that they will be around in the long term - that this isn’t a made to flip business that won’t be finished before it becomes part of Salesforce.

  • Trust from large inflexible institutions to adopt a new technology.

Incidentally - I make zero money from this although Spike is a company I would invest in if I had the opportunity.

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