Title: Hey guys,<p>so I've been building my own Gmail for the past few weeks and would like your feedback.<p>Find a preview here: http://i.imgur.com/UDz2y.png
(Mouse cursor is over the "REPLY" button, to show the hover-effect)<p>The app you see in the screenshot is what I've been using in the past week and it starts to feel better than the gmail interface.<p>Just a quick explanation:<p>- It's conversation-based like Gmail.
- Conversations with new emails are on the left.
- Conversations may be labeled ... based on predefined filters or manually.
- Every conversation stays in the left sidebar until marked "Done" or "Pinned".
- Done emails are accessed through the "check"-button next to the "MailApp"-logo.
- Pinned emails are moved to the right sidebar. This is basically a to-do list or for future reference.
- Both sidebars may be filtered by attributes or labels.
- The "list"-icon, next to the filter in the left sidebar, gives you the classic gmail list in the center-panel.<p>Some technical background:<p>- It's build with Rails and PostgreSQL.
- E-Mail sending/receiving is based on the MailGun infrastructure.
- Turbolinks (https://github.com/rails/turbolinks) and Memcache for a speedy UX.
- All mail data is saved in a multi-tenant PostgreSQL db and for backup purposes in a IMAP mailbox on MailGun.
- Hosted on heroku.<p>I'm quite happy with the app by now and only go back to Gmail for older emails.<p>So my BIG QUESTION right now:
Would you even consider using the app, in case I'd make a commercial product out of it?
Would you pay for it?<p>Searching HN yielded that quite a few people are looking each month to leave Gmail (for various reasons),
but of course there are quite a few gotchas with my approach, especially considering trust-issues.<p>Let me hear what you think.
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