ReMail (YC W09) launches multiple accounts

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35 points·judegomila··9 comments

ReMail is the biggest let-down ever. They spoke for months about how they would change email forever, and what came out? A mail searcher.

The app description mentions "reMail needs less space than you think: 100,000 emails take 500 MB on your phone - 6% of the capacity of an 8 GB iPhone, the smallest iPhone available"

What does that mean? If I have 1GB size 100,000 emails will that take 500MB of space on my phone?

I have 149,508 messages in my primary Google Apps box, which is using 4,706 MB. In ReMail, the same box is using 466.2 MB of storage.

My 45,000+ messages take 170mb. I've been using Remail for a few months now and find it indispensable. For an idea of how useful it is to me, I sort my apps by frequency of use and reMail is on page 2 of 6, after OmniFocus but before Mint.com.

It's one of those apps I didn't know I needed but use all the time now that I've got it.

Out of curiosity, how do you track frequency or recency of use? Just remembering, or is there data to be found?

I'd love to hear suggestions on how we could better communicate this.

Please let me know if you have a good idea on how to phrase it.

This line toward the bottom really caught my eye:

"Cselle said reMail will soon add a feature allowing users to upgrade by inviting 10 friends to to download the app."

This is a brilliant move.

I might have to borrow a page from Gabor's playbook very soon. :)

(Also, congrats on the new feature launch. ReMail looks great.)

Does it let you "flag" emails? That's my biggest beef with the default mail app.

It's not a mail app, it's a search index. Like X1 Search (Windows desktop search application) except on the iPhone and indexing Gmail/IMAP accounts. Its settings are separate from the iPhone's Mail app.

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