Why everyone needs to use Spike for Email

People in my company have been telling me for years to switch but I just too stressed to do it.

My reasoning was i don’t have much email.

Actually not true. Email is a source of a lot of stress for me.

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 pay attention - this is the bottleneck limiting your growth.

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

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I think this was quite helpful for deleting old emails from my inbox. I has over 180,000 emails - mostly junk.

Still this app was going to make cleaning email my new flossing routine and I suck at flossing my teeth like most people.

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By Eliot’s Law.

If Eliot thinks of an idea someone else has had the same idea and might have done it already.

With a bit of help from from ChatGPT 4 which can use bing to search the web which is a game changer for me finding stuff I found Mailtime.

It was cool! They raised a lot of money.

But clearly squandered it because the implementation sucked.

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