We used Gmail internally and all had a lot of email, so we never even considered designs that wouldn't allow for a lot of mail.
Another example of the utility of eating one's own dogfood.
Another example of the utility of eating one's own dogfood.
I would say it's generally a good benefit to have, but I'd say the vast majority of personal email users don't use a lot of mail. Certainly not on the scale of Google engineers.
I'd call it a good selling point and competitive differentiator, but it wasn't some magical thing discovered because they were using it themselves. He said they never even considered other designs.
Incidentally, I am most definitely not arguing against the dog-food approach to development.
just about anything is good enough (even Hotmail) Hotmail now allows you to mark message as "read", do you believe it? They did not offer this option for years!
Anyway, I have a question for you. I am working on my startup, and I really like your approach: "launch fast and iterate"... but I am afraid of users! I am afraid from their judgements on my startup..
Do you have any solution to "get rid" of this fear?
EDIT: Even if I receive -8, I am not going to change a charachter of this!
What is the programming language that Gmail was coded with?
Thanks.