In terms of impact, it's much better to build a product for people who spend several hours/day using email instead of those who login once every few weeks to delete their spam. For the latter case, just about anything is good enough (even Hotmail).
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.