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Hello HN I’m Joey, the maker of Darwin Mail.

Darwin Mail aims to help you be your most productive when dealing with emails & todos.

Problem Inbox by Google was one of the best products they ever made. And then they shut it down.

Solution Introducing Darwin Mail, which aims to replace and become better than Google Inbox ever was.

Features - Snoozing, Reminders, Dark Mode, Undo Send, Custom Backgrounds, Templates, & much more according to your requests! https://www.darwinmail.app/feedback.php https://twitter.com/joeytawadrous

Darwin Mail will evolve to become great over time, thanks to its users, and thanks to you.

You're welcome to join me on this journey ️




This is great—as an Inbox user I see a lot of potential here. Quick thoughts:

- Any support you can give to existing plugins that support Google would be great. Much as I like the fact that templates are built into this, I really love the plugin Gorgias Templates, for example (partly due to the fact those plugins can be used anywhere), and having it available would be awesome.

- I'd love it to be possible that there was no background at all, or at least something flat.

- Would like to be able to set a different default font in the compose menu. Sans-serif is fine, I just want it to be able to decide on Helvetica or Courier New.

- Any ability to change the keyboard shortcuts would be great. The fact that they're not the same as Inbox/Gmail makes it hard to immediately jump in and use.

I'm sure I'll have more, but I just wanted to tell you this really makes me happy to see!


First off thank you soo so much for your amazing feedback! Secondly, WOW. Supporting plugins is such a spectacular idea! It would open up a world of possibilities! Would they be Chrome plugins or plugins for things like Salesforce, Teamwork, GitHub, Slack etc?

I will add in something to remove the background entirely and also allow selection of a flat/gradient/colour asap.

Custom fonts/keyboard shortcuts are such fantastic ideas too man!

My God you are a treasure trove. Godspeed!

PS: If you add your suggestions to our feature requests board it will ensure they are created quickly as others will be able to upvote on ideas! https://www.darwinmail.app/feedback.php


Hey, glad you liked my ideas! I'm thinking Chrome/Firefox plugins in particular. I think you have some built-in functionality that covers some of the use cases but I think that one of the great things about Inbox was that it was largely compatible with existing Gmail plugins.

Anyway, best of luck! I'll be keeping an eye on this.


Fantastic!

I will Roger that :) Chrome and Firefox plugins open up such a world of possibilities :)

Thank you for the suggestion!

Feel free to follow me to keep up to date! https://twitter.com/joeytawadrous


First of all congratulations. It looks like a nice app and productivity booster for GMail.

I just wanted to point that e-mail undo is present is in standard GMail. The feature started as a lab feature and added into standard muster of features sometimes later.

This makes selling e-mail undo in the professional plan a bit of a contradiction IMHO.

Other than that, everything looks good, congrats again. :)


You are completely right! I should have thought of that! I will move the undo sending of emails to the free plan :)

Thank you so much for the positive vibes :)


My girlfriend (who works at Google!) really misses Inbox and specifically the "stacks" feature (whatever that was -- I was not a user myself). She'd easily pay for premium for that specific feature. Apparently it's a common complaint in her group. I didn't see this on your list: is it planned?


That's perfect feedback! Straight from the heart of Google :D ha ha. I think you are referring to bundles? That is most certainly a must as so many people have requested it today.

Thank you for your comment. It made me smile! :)


Bundles are now available with DarwinMail!

https://www.darwinmail.app




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