This is Google for the last 5+ IOs. They just release waitlists and demos that are leapfrogged by the time they're available to all. (and shut down a few years later)
Congrats on the launch! It looks quite slick and something I could see myself using. I'm curious, what do the costs of operation and margins look like for a service like this?
Google IO has been a disappointing affair for the last 10 years, from only releasing on waitlists to never actually shipping to production. I sign up for their waitlists, but rarely actually hear back. I'm more than convinced today that Google's good days are long over.
That sounds really cool. As a kid I built my own PHP forum system and have great memories from early internet forums. Bringing that to workspace is a really interesting idea. One of my fundamental problems with Slack and any new method of communication is, if you already use email daily do you really want another feed that you have to check? So, combining the workspace forum as a Subreddit or a Discord server, services which people perhaps already use, is a perfect solution! We may try this for Emailio's employees down the line by making a private subreddit. Thanks for the idea!
I don't really like Silicon Valley's mentality either, but no need for judgment. I totally feel you, and for us as a very small company we had the choice of either a) building a great native iOS/Mac app or b) Electron that runs everywhere but is ultimately a poor experience. We want to build a sustainable business not fueled by VC money, so our bandwidth is very limited. We decided to go the native route and work with the platforms we are experts on. There's some great Windows/Android clients though!
Can you elaborate? Slack's async feed used to ping me every 5 min and distract me from coding. I also found myself having OCD about going through each and every message that was sent to all channels - very low ROI obsession. I like the slightly higher barrier of having to send emails and refresh your email inbox :)
EDIT - thanks to everyone correcting me on the sync vs async! I fixed it in the original comment.
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Slack is detrimental to team communication in several ways, and bringing it to email is a mistake imho. Slack combines the stress and urgency of text messaging with the importance of email. Your Slack becomes a Facebook or Twitter feed - another infinite feed that addicts you to some level. Since it's a chat, the conversations are shallow and disorganized.
For example, search never worked properly in Slack for me. Furthermore, synchronous communication has proven poor for wellness and work-life balance.
I know Slack just got acquired and its the hot new thing but email is great as it is - its our ways of using it that need to change.
This is yet another fail by M$. So, why do people praise Microsoft so much? Satya Nadella turned it around, really? MS365 surveils you. Windows is full of telemetry, Cortana/Bing ads and the UX is objectively bad as they have design from the 2000s mixed in with design from today. VSCode is a slow Electron app. I have a Surface - it is a flop and can't compare to Apple. The new Xbox has worse performance than PS5. LinkedIn is cancerous and nobody I know enjoys using it. The list goes on and on. I am at a loss to find a reason to use Microsoft products willingly, except GitHub which is still somewhat okay (yet).