Email made me miserable, so I decided to build my own email app from scratch
"Maybe the dream of an email-free future isn't dead; maybe it just means a future in which email is merely a sliver of our communication rather than the whole pie."<p>Email is victim of its own success, like cars & highways in America.<p>Highways are not bad per se, they were and are an incredible revolution. But too much of them means the value we collectively subtract constantly diminish. We need alternatives: walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes, tramways, trains, bus, etc.<p>It's the same with email, we need alternatives. Chat services like Slack & HipChat are good examples for internal communication.<p>Email's decentralized nature and ubiquity mean it's the perfect tool for external communication. I don't see why this would change.