Re:Show HN: Unibox, the people-centric email client released...
by akrymski on Thursday October 24, 2013 @11:12AM
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I've been wondering this for a while - is there a viable business model for email clients? Charging a small one-off fee isn't sustainable really. At the same time charging a subscription (like SaaS) is unheard of for email clients. Email services on the other hand - a different matter. But even with Google Apps - $50 a year for an email service is really cheap, compared to any other SaaS out there. Wonder why that is, when email is so crucial to every company?
Re:Show HN: Unibox, the people-centric email client released...
by MetaCosm on Thursday October 24, 2013 @11:41PM
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If you consider playing the consumer lottery and hoping you get purchased a viable strategy, then sure!
Re:Show HN: Unibox, the people-centric email client released...
by lassejansen on Thursday October 24, 2013 @10:38AM
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If you send us an email to [email protected] we'll ping you as soon as we're able to provide a trial version.
Changing email clients is a major chore, and I suspect that there's a good chance I might return to my boring old mail client after the initial delight of the new client wears off... With those odds, paying $10 for software that I probably won't end up using is not appealing.
Also, I feel that the word "beautiful" should be banished from app marketing copy. There are many things in this world that are beautiful, but I hope my threshold for beauty never gets so low that a grid view of email attachments would qualify -- that sounds like a state of mental disorder, experiencing Stendhal syndrome when faced with a GUI.