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by richardesigns 5y ago
Actually yea it is a bit much. Wow. And I ‘am’ European.
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by richardesigns 5y ago
Nude sunbathing etc has been a feature of model railways for as long as I can remember. All goes over you head until your 15 anyway. The adults chuckle knowingly and quietly, you don’t have to draw your children’s attention to it if you don
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by richardesigns 5y ago
I am so keen to visit this attraction. Pecorama was just the tiniest bit of a disappointment!
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by richardesigns 6y ago
+1/ YouTube is the worst rabbit hole on the internet. Hugely addictive and yet full of so much valuable content. Good work.
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by richardesigns 6y ago
I like how you can have titles half way down the columns.
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by richardesigns 6y ago
Well this has all the hallmarks of being very cool.
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Cool domino laying robot my friend Lewis made, Xmas day sorted(youtube.com)
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Michael Siebel's Advice: Default to Action Has Been Transformative(richardesigns.co.uk)
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by richardesigns 6y ago
Straw poll on teams in our batch, yes they are 'raising successfully at demo day' roughly in line with previous batches. Far fewer in-person investor meetings as you would expect. Yet more Zoom calls of course.
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by richardesigns 6y ago
This is a cool idea and an interesting insight. Glad to hear about what a 'normal' YC interview is like. Reminds me of amateur theatre, waiting in the wings to go on. YC could do the random '10 in a call' before the int
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by richardesigns 6y ago
Agree completely. One thing is for sure, I Zoom a lot less now! I guess the imperitive to build a strong company remains the same, there is just no substitute for going out into the world and meeting people.
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by richardesigns 6y ago
Thanks so much :-) The pins will definitely do this. I didn't quite manage to get it to work ahead of the video but the idea is each pin is a link back to the message from where it was pinned. I'd like the same to be true for the
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by richardesigns 6y ago
You're so right. They would get hugely annoyed. Plum Mail isn't a messenger really, I mean sure you could use it as such but then you could use email like that too and cause just as many notifications. We're planning daily
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by richardesigns 6y ago
All good points. Plum Mail is B2C and HN is a well-informed technical audience it's probably fair to say. We felt we needed something less abstract than just a fruit in the name to explain what you do in this application - i.e. you w
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by richardesigns 6y ago
Thanks Adontai. Agree on the video. Not made a video like this before! It was a fun experience but there are certainly improvements to be made there. Thank you.
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by richardesigns 6y ago
Yes it could. That's a little way down the road development wise but sure, cool idea. Version 2 of the pins will include links back to the text in the email thread. If you've got 100 messages in a thread this is essential. The s
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by richardesigns 6y ago
Nice looking site. Plum Mail just isn't an email client or a shared inbox. We can offer shared inbox functionality in Plum Mail if users would like it but you can also do simpler public support channels.
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by richardesigns 6y ago
Hi again, I answered this one up above too. Free to all (system is open to all) with premium features for a modest fee.
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by richardesigns 6y ago
Agree. A system with none of your friends or colleagues on is pointless because there is no one to talk to. I'll try to be really clear about what Plum Mail is and is not! We haven't done a great job of communicating this thus fa
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by richardesigns 6y ago
Fair comment. I'll work on this.
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by richardesigns 6y ago
Sound summary. You're welcome.
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by richardesigns 6y ago
Thanks for your constructive feedback on the video. We realised yesterday the video says literally nothing interesting until 30 seconds in! Had quite a lot of flak about this lol. Still, there’s a first time for everything and I hope the vi
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by richardesigns 6y ago
Thank you. Keen to agree with the point that email is useful and good at in the right place but groups certainly needs work!
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by richardesigns 6y ago
SMTP is not used under the hood. You can send messages to anyone with an email address. That person may not have accessed Plum Mail before. In that case, the message sent to that person is sent as an email with the option to reply. So you
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by richardesigns 6y ago
Similar in that you can contact anyone with their email address without that person needing to 'sign up'. This openess is important. The format in Plum Mail is more longform rather than chat as such. Delta Chat is a cool service.
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by richardesigns 6y ago
Thank you. You certainly can test it, thanks for joining the list. Your situation is exactly the kind of thing we'd love to solve. We had a similar experience communicating with accountants. Plum Mail is not a shared inbox as such but
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Launch HN: Plum Mail (YC S20) – Email alternative for group conversations
118 points by richardesigns 6y ago|65 comments
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Feature demo of a modern replacement for email(youtube.com)
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The Most Pressing Authentication Processing Pain Points in 2020
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by richardesigns 6y ago
This post resonates with me completely. Products need to solve problems people other than ourselves actually have. We have not always been perfect at this and started like you have here, by speaking to people, then we got too into the code

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