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."Email is victim of its own success, like cars & highways in America.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.It's the same with email, we need alternatives. Chat services like Slack & HipChat are good examples for internal communication.Email's decentralized nature and ubiquity mean it's the perfect tool for external communication. I don't see why this would change.