Comment by slightwinder

Comment by slightwinder a day ago

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Good luck with that, but as a first reaction I must say, what I see on that side is not that impressive. It's just the same feature-set & interface all over again. It's not selling me any reason why I should be more interested in this, than in all the other clients already available.

Granted there is very little on that side, but I hope if you really start from scratch, you will also look more outside the box of the established mail clients. Think about how RSS Feed readers are working and the interfaces they offer, think about task&note-managment-tools are working and what they offer. For example, why is there no mail client with a kanban-board-view, allowing to organize mails by status or tags. Why is there no client with a social media feed-interface or even a tweetdeck-like view, allowing to observe multiple mail sources in parallel. This is the kind of innovation I'd like to see in a new mail client. Not just a bit better performance and new colors.

isaachinman a day ago

Yes, we've started from scratch. A detailed explanation for our reasoning can be found here:

https://marcoapp.io/blog/marco-an-introduction

TLDR: There are _no_ IMAP-primitive truly cross-platform email clients in existence, except for Missive, which is built for team collaboration. We are building something net new.

The content on the website is indeed a minimal representation and the actual alpha product has matured quite a bit beyond what you see there.

The kanban suggestion is brilliant, I have made a note of that.