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No no anything that's not completely obvious to everyone who visits needs to be changed. Thank you for your feedback.

I've thought about what you said (albeit very quickly) and made changes to the homepage https://www.darwinmail.app/index.php

The homepage subtitle: "Your Google Inbox replacement: reach new levels of productivity."

And a below the hero image: "An evolutionary way to work with your emails." - I think I can expand on this one.. any ideas?

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It still reads like it’s a Google/Gmail replacement, and not an add-on/enhancement.

I’m not sure what the right words are, but it definitely needs to be clearer that it enhances Gmail, not replaces it.

“Your Google Inbox replacement: Enhancing Gmail to reach new levels of productivity.” or something like that?

I love this idea. Thank you. Words do fail us sometimes. However, I do like what you're saying. The subtitle should be clearer. I will think about it, to try and come up with the best description I can - I'm open to more suggestions though! Thank you again for yours.

Enhance Gmail to get your Google Inbox features back. Productivity awaits!

Now that is really really good :)

I'm not going to forget this description.

It's so catchy!

I've updated the homepage! https://www.darwinmail.app

Thank you, sir!

Something like:

Darwin Mail: Gmail Evolved

Darwin Mail is a better interface to the gmail account you already have:

- Restores Google Inbox features

- ....

Aside, do you need to add any trademark notices?

I like it! How about: "Enhance Gmail to get your Google Inbox features back. Productivity awaits!". This was suggested by another user :)

Do you mean trademark notices with Google?

Yeah, wasn't sure if Gmail is trademarked and if it is, whether you need a notice.

I really don't think so!

It was Google themselves who reviewed DarwinMail :)

They took their time too, let me tell you!

Beautiful interface. Seriously. This type of design opens me up to Material as Ive been pretty adverse to it until now. Material with rounded edges and transparency. Looks clean.

What tech did you use on the frontend? Im on ipad so I cant inspect your dom ️

Thank you so much for the positive vibes! I'm so happy to hear that :)

It's vanilla JS! Enhanced with libraries such as jQuery, Materialize, XSS, bootstrap, moment, less etc :)

Does she look well on the iPad? ;)

She does!

Amazing!!! If you would like to check out our public Trello board that will give you an idea of our tech stack! https://www.darwinmail.app/feedback.php

Off topic but I've never heard of "hero image" until now and looked it up. Has boilerplate web design become so normalized that everything has a name?

That's quite an old term.

... yes, so?

It's fascinating. So much creative breadth enabled by modern web and we've converted quite well one the one format for selling a new product or idea.

Not necessarily bad. I'm excited to see how this diverges again.

It's easy to talk to people about something if you name it. Same as header and footer, no?

It's a term from traditional publishing. The Wikipedia page on it is pretty misleading in that respect.

And, by analogy, theatre according to this, https://foxxr.com/the-epic-story-of-the-hero-image/amp/.

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