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Ask HN: If you could reimagine your email inbox, what would you pick?

1 points by saimiam ↗ HN
I can think of things like

1. built-in mail merge and updatable contacts where someone can directly reply to your mail-merged email and unsubscribe

2. shareable urls of emails - I hate that I can only forward/cc people to share an email with people. Shareable emails will make bookmarking important emails in the browser MUCH easier

3. sidebar comments/discussions section built into the email inbox instead of unending chains of reply/reply-alls.

Anything else that could make the email inbox more interesting?

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eimrine
I think that email is nearly perfect technology without any viable alternatives. All that cocky startups like whatsupp or telegram use to transform into shit over time.

The only thing email needs is some progress in spam filtering like needness to do a microtransaction for opening an ability to write me. It will make an easier life for new mail providers and if I really want some spam guy to send me 10 letters a day I would pay him a dollar for letting him to send me 1000 letters.

saimiam
> really want some spam guy to send me 10 letters a day I would pay him a dollar for letting him to send me 1000 letters

I’m confused. Why would you pay someone to spam you?

But I take your point - micro transactions in email is what you’re looking for?

eimrine
> I’m confused. Why would you pay someone to spam you?

For not letting others to spam me without paying as it is happenning today hundred or thousand times a day. I have not understood your second question, but I am talking about some requirement to pay me a 0.001 dollar for each letter in my inbox. Totally payable by even the poorest cheapster among my friends.