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Sendicate: Reinventing Email Newsletters, And More Proof That Email Isn’t Dead

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Does anyone with half a brain really need proof that email isn't dead? Aside from the phone, email is one of the most intimate forms of communication that we have.

Social Networks like Facebook will always have their haters and lovers, but email will be here to stay for the long haul. It's the true neutral medium of the internet.

Anyone who has used the incumbent tools knows they don't work as well as they advertise. ConstantContact is a behemoth that fails to innovate. MailChimp has a cute monkey but the product is less than compelling. Kudos to Sendicate for creating something unique, because this is a space that needs to be taken to the next level.

There are loads of great new services for email these days.

Sendicate is interesting because of it's opinionated approach and great modern design.

If you already have a design though you should try Mailrox (https://www.mailrox.com). It's dead easy to upload designs and create email templates which can then be used in Mailchimp, Campaign monitor or other services.

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It is no secret that email as a whole needs to be updated for the myriad of modern uses, and I believe this is going to happen through new components that make parts of the ecosystem better. Email is the sum of its parts from protocols, servers, clients, content, users, and little by little we are seeing progress.

email needs to stay what it is , a simple text message with attachments and nothing more, that's what makes email successull and that's why it'll still exist after all these over hyped social networs go down.

Wouldn't you say there was room for improvement?

Without going into the email is alive/dead discussion.

Sendicate does look quite awesome, nicely designed, very sleek. I can see a market for that (even though Mailchimp does an ok job already). But other than that, I can't see what really makes it the future of email? or how it reinvents emails?

A textbook instance of begging the question. Who is saying that email is dead?

The journalist Paul Carr is referencing an earlier article where he talks about his misconception that email is dead. http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/17/yesterday-i-thought-email-w...

Even pg this week mentioned that email might not be the optimal tool and there might be a better tool to solve some of the problems (http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html), and there is no shortage of email is dead posts and comments here on HN.

So, an ex-Techcrunch writer uses himself as a source for that assertion? This is why I call him a writer instead of a journalist.

There is no possible way to infer that Mr. Graham was saying anything close to email being dead, simply that it's sometimes used for things that might be better handled other ways.

Mark Zuckerberg, most famously, thought that Facebook would kill email (2010): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1329979/Faceb... http://www.channel4.com/news/has-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-j...

That's not even close to saying that email is dead.

Plus, consider the source.

How about the BBC?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15856116#TWEET33746

It's not an explicit "email is dead" but he was definitely suggesting email would lose in favor of messaging systems on social platforms (like Facebook).

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg echoed this in this talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm8NdNy4wOM

Again, in none of these examples is anybody saying that email is dead. It's writers interpreting Zuck words to mean that, but the BBC is doing the exact same thing as the people they're writing about, a commentary Ouroboros that is based on nothing. To be sure, Carr is even more of a hack than any of these people, but again: consider the source.

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