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Show HN: We're challenging the iPhone inbox

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Demo video: vimeo.com/78506671

Direct early beta download link: http://squareonemail.com/tryourbeta/download.php?key=SHOWHN

Let us know what you think, guys!

In my humble opinion, when you challenge a core app that everyone is so accustomed to, you have to make yours significantly more value-able for it to gain traction. It almost had to jump out at you, and make you feel stupid for ever using anything prior to it.

And that's the problem with email apps. None I've tried has made a significant enough value addition to make me permanently jump

I'm really enjoying the beta. I would really appreciate being able to edit the title of the Unsorted category, as I am trying to mimic the default Gmail categories.

I would drop the name to just SquareMail.

The sorting contacts feature is amazing.

In my professional opinion, the UI/UX is way better than any mobile email (or at least Gmail) client that exists today. The Mailbox app was definitely not as well done as this, but there marketing effort was fantastic. If you can market this effectively and build up a ton of hype for your launch, this will be huge.

Happy you like the experience, and thanks for the feedback!

We're on a weekly update schedule, so definitely stay tuned and keep using and sending suggestions. Next week's build should have immediate push notifications for select zones.

I like the concept!

Thanks! If you get a chance to try the iPhone beta, would love to hear your feedback!

downloaded and played with it for a few mins. Very nicely done - well polished and ios7ey.

A couple of comments:

- Sorting contacts (assigning each user to buckets is a big chore). Maybe automate it based on a list (Netflix, Hulu etc goes to subscriptions, BankOfA, FinanceCU etc goes to Banking), and let the user edit it if need be.

- Or instead of drag and drop it in a bucket, click and pop a list of buckets, so user can click on it again to drop in that bucket - way faster than dragging and droping in a limited real estate scenario

- when i click on a message, dont show the big fat buckets first, show message, and if user scrolls up, he can see the buckets himself.

- right swipe -> just pop out a list of buckets and let the user click as real estate is quite small, and you can see only 3 buckets by default.

- Compose is a bit clunky as I need to SAVE recipients even before message screen shows up.

- After I select recipients, save, move to message screen, then if I want to change/add recipients, dont make hime swipe back, make the to: field tappable as well.

- Doesnt work on landscape

looking forward to the actual release! Great Job

iOS 7.+ - iPhone 5, AT&T

Awesome feedback! We are actually at the moment working on incorporating intelligence into the app to make the sorting much more effortless. A lot more polish is also underway - thanks for pointing out a bunch of good stuff!

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