Inbox by Gmail Shutting Down

Discussion from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17971516

I usually hate remarks like these, but can't help but say "Another one bites the dust". The unreliability of Google Products makes it so much less appealing to buy into Google's ecosystem nowadays, then it was 5-10 years ago. I'm hesitant to adopt any new product/service from them, because there's a high likelihood that they'll shut it down.

I gave up on using Inbox a few months ago as it was way too slow, and absolutely _love_ the refreshed Gmail and Calendar interfaces - I've literally been waiting for them for years.

However, I really hope that they fold the Reminders functionality from Keep into the new Gmail, as the reminders interoperability with Inbox/Keep/Cal was pretty much my only reason for using it for as long as I did. That new Tasks interface is pretty, and I get what it's doing by trying to be a bit more like Todoist, but I think bringing full-on Reminders to Gmail would make a lot of people miss Inbox a lot less, and probably get me to drop Todoist if I'm honest.

I really don’t understand why they are doing this. This is the app I use the most on mobile up there with the browser. If there is an area where it makes sense to experiment with multiple UIs is email.

I don't understand the title – the link just leads to google.com/inbox/. Is that service shutting down? It is not clear to me from the context of the website.

Does anyone know how I can have two different "Gmail" apps on an Android phone?

I like to keep my work and personal emails separate. So I use Inbox for business, and turn off notifications in the evenings & weekends.

When I go into my personal Gmail, I'm not tempted to check my work email.

Inbox had many great features, but the killer for me was that it was a separate icon!