Re:Mailbox and the Todo Protocol
by alooPotato on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @05:22PM
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I would tend to disagree that building upon another platform like Gmail is "strategically hampered". We (streak.com) think its the only way to get users to switch to your email service - build it on top of their existing email client (gmail) and slowly start replacing pieces of the Gmail stack until they are exclusively using you.
Thats been our not-so-secret strategy from the beginning. It allows the user to slowly onboard to your product instead of making a one time "do I want to switch over my email?" type of decision which is obviously much harder.
Re:Mailbox and the Todo Protocol
by dmbaggett on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @09:58PM
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The problem is that if you create real value, Google will simply clone what you've done. Because, by definition, they have the vast majority of the code required to do it already.
Thats been our not-so-secret strategy from the beginning. It allows the user to slowly onboard to your product instead of making a one time "do I want to switch over my email?" type of decision which is obviously much harder.