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Re: Why is it so hard to innovate in the e-mail space? by cissou on Thursday February 27, 2014 @12:08PM (#7313337)
Is there nothing to build on top of? A "e-mail" dev framework (open source if possible) with hooks so that you can focus on only front-end, or something similar?
Re: Why is it so hard to innovate in the e-mail space? by efounders on Thursday February 27, 2014 @12:19PM (#7313410)
that's an interesting question! The thing is that there is so much "plumbing" to do that a lot of the value is in the backend. Since it cannot be used by many many projects (we won't build thousands of email clients)the market for this open source model seems too small. My 2 cents.