After 3 years of development, we are presenting Loop Email. We launched it first on Product Hunt a couple of weeks ago and it finished in the top 5 products of the day.
We think that there are smarter ways of working together. It just seems like no matter how many different collaborative apps companies test - they always have to go back to their inbox to deal with the important things.
Are you familiar with this?
- a client reaches out to you on email
- you exchange a bunch of emails to define the project
- you open projects and chat in other apps like Slack or Asana and Trello
- then you exchange a bunch of emails again with the client until the project is done
It’s a mess.
What if using other apps we could just improve how we collaborate on email?
That’s why we worked on developing an app that is able to bring the lovable collaboration experience back to email. We call it Loop Email and its main experience enables people to be able to resolve any email on the spot with Loops: internal side chats.
The app is available on mobile for iOS and Windows and MAC OS for desktop and already has more than 40.000 registered users and is FREE to use for now.
How do you guys feel about the way you collaborate in your companies? Do you still communicate a lot over email? Would this help you solve your problem? We’re really interested in HN’s feedback.
Let's be honest - it's all about perspective. Gary V is trying to motivate people.
50 cent was motivating people.
Michael Jordan was motivating people.
Nelson Mandela was motivating people.
Why i'm even considering putting these 3 names in the same paragraph is to escalate on the fact that every human being will find his own perspective to life and purpose. The name of the game is that no matter what becomes your purpose or what do become your life guidelines - you keep yourself healthy.
And I've seen young athletes breaking their backs from over training.
Rappers loosing their lives from hustling (ok not exactly true, but i know it happens)
And peacemakers getting black eyes on protests.
We make our own choices. We find our own leaders. Nothing is wrong with Gary V's motivational speeches - what's wrong is if people take it for the holy truth, which is the basic problem of any ideology.
Ahhhh. This brings out the memories. One of my favourite games of all time. I even played it with his sidekick, the little fox. That last level jumping from a cloud to a cloud, avoiding robo-storks was so mesmerising. Was this released by SEGA?
I can definitely understand this decision. We used to use Slack in my previous company which was a digital agency and being a client manager it was incredibly hard for me to keep track of the numerous chat messages i depended on in Slack but at the same time keeping up with the clients which were always, no matter how hard we tried - active only on email.
Altough Slack is a great concept i think in general the biggest problem of proprietary platforms is that usually the original task always starts somewhere else. Slack can work great as an end-point solution, where people don't need any other tools to exchange business content. If you think about it - most of the service driven business across the planet initially starts with a phone call or an email. After it successfully comes down the pipeline to a done deal - you kick it off with a meeting or something, you decide about the desired channel of communication and you can kick off the project.
Sure you set up some rules - like separate channels for unimportant topics or maybe you put separate tasks in a different tool etc.
If everyone sticks to the plan (including the client), than Slack works this way.
But not everyone sticks to the plan. It's because phone calls happen or emails happen in between, where you have to move discussions from where it started back to Slack and this was the whole problem for us. We were working a lot on improving our client's rate of happiness - and there was a clear correlation between them being satisfied with the work that was done and us adopting to their tech stack. Not the other way around. Everything that had to be moved to Slack, so it could be considered as 'a project'and people would keep track off - eventually was missing some sort of information that happened on email sometime during the process. And for us, that didn't help with improving our services.
So from my experiences, when working with services, the ideal tech stack situation for companies comes down to how companies work with clients. If clients can be adaptive to the core communication platform, than you'll find enough integrations to make the best work flows to help you optimise how the business work. But if you're working with clients that usually have their own preferred tech stack or involve more people - that the chances of Slack interrupting your workflows are much higher.
I attended a Russian poetry event by accident a couple of days ago. I didn't understand a thing but this made my whole experience of it even more beautiful. I could literally feel what the artists were talking about and the reactions of the crowd. I guess it had to do a little with the fact that they were expats and the Russian poetry probably reminded them at home, but the energy in the room was so intense. Later i spoke with one of the attendees and he explained that poetry (or literature in this case) is a way of connecting similair perspectives to life to people divided by the enormous distances in Russia. Thats why the people attending the event - even though they didnt know each other, had a great feeling of connection and were prone to expressing their patriotic emotions. To quote him: "I felt Russian for the first time in a long time tonight."And this is a great quote: "Literature can be a catalyst for change. But it can also be a safety valve for a release of tension and one that results in paralysis"
After 3 years of development, we are presenting Loop Email. We launched it first on Product Hunt a couple of weeks ago and it finished in the top 5 products of the day.
We think that there are smarter ways of working together. It just seems like no matter how many different collaborative apps companies test - they always have to go back to their inbox to deal with the important things.
Are you familiar with this?
- a client reaches out to you on email
- you exchange a bunch of emails to define the project
- you open projects and chat in other apps like Slack or Asana and Trello
- then you exchange a bunch of emails again with the client until the project is done
It’s a mess.
What if using other apps we could just improve how we collaborate on email?
That’s why we worked on developing an app that is able to bring the lovable collaboration experience back to email. We call it Loop Email and its main experience enables people to be able to resolve any email on the spot with Loops: internal side chats.
The app is available on mobile for iOS and Windows and MAC OS for desktop and already has more than 40.000 registered users and is FREE to use for now.
Here is a short video on how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCp4sFP9OwQ&t=8s
How do you guys feel about the way you collaborate in your companies? Do you still communicate a lot over email? Would this help you solve your problem? We’re really interested in HN’s feedback.
Thanks!