Fleep wants to replace email like mobile phones replaced landlines (fleep.io)

Have not used their service before. Interestingly they are financed by Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn. Wonder how big they will grow...

The thing that makes emails of great is that it is not a program controlled by a single commercial entity but instead an open standard. Although I find this an interesting prospect, I see the potential for this particular product is quite limited because of the aforementioned plus their pricing scheme.

This really feels like a huge goal in this email-centric world, it will be interesting to see how they manage to leverage the email network.

Decades ago mobiles were also kind of a small-scale thing that none thought made real sense. Who knows...

I get too much spam email these days and email clients are not able to solve this problem well. I will give Fleep a try and see if they can make a difference.

I remember the times when I was the only one who use skype among my friends,and there were only few friends with who I was skyping , because the whole world was not aware of it! ))) Hope this guys will create something really important.This idea is really great.Will try

ill give it a try :)

Actually tons of services are trying to do so, but interesting to see who wins at the end...

I tried to create an account. Still waiting for the activation email so I can "click the link and get started".

I would say it is a very ambitios vision. But since I see that the team has some of the former Skype engineers onboard, then I believe it might grow into something amazing. Will give a try.

we've been on Fleep with our distributed team of a dozen people for a year now and very happy with it. the quickest way to think about them is that if Slack is a modern take of IRC, then Fleep makes Skype's model of persistent p2p chats work (fast, mobile, syncing well, file storage, some clever UI improvements, web access).

I think "Sign up with Facebook" it's better then "Sign up with Google")

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