After 3 years of development, we are presenting Loop Email. We launched it first on Product Hunt a couple of weeks ago and it finished in the top 5 products of the day.
We think that there are smarter ways of working together. It just seems like no matter how many different collaborative apps companies test - they always have to go back to their inbox to deal with the important things.
Are you familiar with this?
- a client reaches out to you on email
- you exchange a bunch of emails to define the project
- you open projects and chat in other apps like Slack or Asana and Trello
- then you exchange a bunch of emails again with the client until the project is done
It’s a mess.
What if using other apps we could just improve how we collaborate on email?
That’s why we worked on developing an app that is able to bring the lovable collaboration experience back to email. We call it Loop Email and its main experience enables people to be able to resolve any email on the spot with Loops: internal side chats.
The app is available on mobile for iOS and Windows and MAC OS for desktop and already has more than 40.000 registered users and is FREE to use for now.
How do you guys feel about the way you collaborate in your companies? Do you still communicate a lot over email? Would this help you solve your problem? We’re really interested in HN’s feedback.
Where are you planning to take this? Slack just bought Astro a few weeks ago...when i think about it they could be working now on something similar? Channels on email actually sound interesting.
Great question, thanks. We approached the collaboration problem from a different angle than Slack. We believe email will never go away - and there can't be an app that will completely kill it. But there could be an app that can change it.
What email is missing now is what people love in collaboration apps like Slack or Trello. Real-time chat. The option of having team discussions. Being able to control who you want to be disturbed by and who needs to be muted...all this stuff is missing on email currently and we've built an app that allows you to do all that within your inbox.
Rather than building a new app for the collaboration problem, we've changed the experience where the problem started initially - on email. Loop is an attempt to help employees work efficiently on email with their colleagues.
As I discovered on the webpage, the app supports Gmail, Exchange, Office 365. For me personally a deal braker, since many of old school users like myself prefer Hotmail or Yahoo, which globally speaking also belong to the most common ones. Another thing not clearly stated is the support of IMAP or POP3 as many mails are also ran through it. Ever planning on adding these mentioned clients?
Working remote most of the time, the app seems as a helpful solution for dealing with projects and communication with my around the world co-workers. Will give it a go.
We do have a Linux version available. Please send an email to support@intheloop.io and we will send you the download link from Github. Thanks for the interest!
Looks like Slack and Gmail had a baby. It could come in handy with my small startup team. We exchange most of info through emails since we are in and out of office all of the time. What's your business model?
I can relate to the problem definition here. We run a small software development company and most inquiries come to my inbox. After we confirm the project i go to Slack, basically brief everyone on what the project is all about and re-post any shared documents in between. No bigger issues till this point. But during the development of an app a lot of questions appear i need to clear off with the client. I need approvals, budget scope, dead end feature developments...and I am losing my mind between the conversations i have on email and the project management i run on Slack. It's actually an interesting concept - to stop moving the work out from email but instead bring teammates to where work already is.
Bringing email back to life, I love that! I’ve been using email since it came out and nowadays everywhere I go i see kids chatting and liking and commenting and snapchatting… I feel like a dinosaur when i’m with my students. I don’t think they will use it though, but I must say the concept sounds great if it allows me to still use email but also chat with others. And I agree - email is not going away. Every item that is official or ‘formal’ still needs to be sent over email as a proof of reference and it's good to see someone is thinking about changing it instead of replacing it.
As I saw on the page, the pricing model will switch to premium but is currently still free. Hopefully not too high... Do you guys have any ideas on the final price for this?
Anyone else here thinks there is too much drama going on with email? I get like 80 emails per day. I have two slots for resolving them during the day, one in the morning and second one in the evening. I reply, delete, forward and that's it. Why the drama?
Just discovered that I can put a whole team into discussion of a mail. Well this is really cool. Instead of CCing or FWDing to my project team, I will just side debate the mail and get a faster reply from everyone.
Messaging within email. An interesting view of the emailing concept. Better than switching between different apps for communicating around one topic.
Worth taking a closer look at it.
Why is it that all big players use Electron platform for their desktop apps. Slack has it, you've built it on Electron as well. I just find them so slow and huge
(100 Mb+) bloatware. Apps should be native and not just build on top of two large software frameworks (Node.js and Chromium in this case) because they're faster and use less resources. This trend of using platform over platform for apps goes into the wrong direction.
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[ 2.1 ms ] story [ 72.6 ms ] threadAfter 3 years of development, we are presenting Loop Email. We launched it first on Product Hunt a couple of weeks ago and it finished in the top 5 products of the day.
We think that there are smarter ways of working together. It just seems like no matter how many different collaborative apps companies test - they always have to go back to their inbox to deal with the important things.
Are you familiar with this?
- a client reaches out to you on email
- you exchange a bunch of emails to define the project
- you open projects and chat in other apps like Slack or Asana and Trello
- then you exchange a bunch of emails again with the client until the project is done
It’s a mess.
What if using other apps we could just improve how we collaborate on email?
That’s why we worked on developing an app that is able to bring the lovable collaboration experience back to email. We call it Loop Email and its main experience enables people to be able to resolve any email on the spot with Loops: internal side chats.
The app is available on mobile for iOS and Windows and MAC OS for desktop and already has more than 40.000 registered users and is FREE to use for now.
Here is a short video on how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCp4sFP9OwQ&t=8s
How do you guys feel about the way you collaborate in your companies? Do you still communicate a lot over email? Would this help you solve your problem? We’re really interested in HN’s feedback.
Thanks!
What email is missing now is what people love in collaboration apps like Slack or Trello. Real-time chat. The option of having team discussions. Being able to control who you want to be disturbed by and who needs to be muted...all this stuff is missing on email currently and we've built an app that allows you to do all that within your inbox.
Rather than building a new app for the collaboration problem, we've changed the experience where the problem started initially - on email. Loop is an attempt to help employees work efficiently on email with their colleagues.