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For anyone not interested in reading the whole article, essentially I am building an app which will combine all forms of communication into one simple application. This will help people digest and send messages / emails from one central location.

I am currently in the early stages of development for my unified messaging platform, which I have named UNUM messenger. I plan to launch UNUM messenger in March of 2017 as a Beta. If you would like to be notified when UNUM messenger launches, you can sign up here - http://www.unummessenger.com

More than anything, I am looking for feedback on what people would want to see on an app like this. Feel free to leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Thanks! Peter

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I apologize, I don't intend for this to sound as rude as its going to or if I'm just out of the loop but...

I don't know who you are or why I should care what you are developing? People have known that messaging has been fucked for a very long time, and many people have tried to make a one size fits all solution for messaging.

What makes you different?

In a related tangent, Messaging is really fucked. Email is thrashed. To the point that it requires consistent effort and continuous maintenance for it to be useful at all.

I love the idea of a unified service. But I don't know why facebook or skype or slack would ever give up a customer to your interface?

I am open to any and all feedback, so I am not offended at all friend!

To be honest, I am not necessarily asking for you to care about what I am doing. What I am looking for is constructive feedback, which you provided me in your comment, so thank you!

What makes us different is we are not only going to unify, but also provide native messaging through our app. For this reason, we will introduce features that set us apart solely for being a native messaging app.

I agree email is basically useless at this point. Later down the road, we do have plans to have our app help in the overthrowing of email and eventually replacing it with messaging. You can read more about that here if you would like - https://artplusmarketing.com/can-messaging-replace-email-a83...

Some apps we definitely won't be able to integrate with. We will need to start lean and work from there meaning only having a handful of integrations to begin. From there we will be able to get a bigger dev team and work around API limitations.

I really apprecaite you responding and all of your feedback!

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