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DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
That is excellent news.

I will look into that. It does not sound like it will be too tricky to implement so expect a quick turn around time :)

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Fantastic, I have an example to learn from :D

Thank you for the tip!

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
I could not agree with you more! I'm so happy that lots have been suggested on our feedback board https://www.darwinmail.app/feedback.php

However, I'm going to merge that with DarwinMail's Trello board soon and make the whole thing public :)

I will also allow upvoting, comments and user-created feedback and suggestions!

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
You have certainly given me plenty to think about.

I thank you :) I love receiving new 'outside of the box' ideas that will increase DarwinMail's appeal :)

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Ohh I see. Like a Facebook Pixels tracking image. No, I don't think that's blocked. Then again, it's not blocked in most email clients, perhaps it's difficult to accomplish.

Nonetheless, I've added it to the list of upcoming features as I believe it's worth a shot!

Thank you so much for your feedback :)

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Nope!

It doesn't send the email until after 0 - 30 seconds, so you have a chance to undo it :)

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Thank you for the follow-up.

That's quite an interesting concept! It would alleviate users concerns :)

I like it!

Ghost has done very well in recent years. I will read up on this.

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
That is definitely a bug! Can you tell me more? Perhaps show me your console output? (Right click -> inspect -> click the console tab)
DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid

One of my favourite's :D

I'll keep that in mind when editing the copy in future!

Thank you so much for the positive vibes! I really appreciate it :)

In the near future I hope to support Outlook, and after then, who knows!

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Thank you for your question :)

We block any and all code scripts/styles from executing outside of emails.

We don't block images though - if we did then the emails you could usually receive with images will feel plain.. won't it? If I understand you correctly?

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Thank you for your feedback!

Some of our features such as templates, dark mode, custom backgrounds are built on top of DarwinMail - and do not interact with Google or Gmails APIs whatsoever.

Most of DarwinMail works via the Gmail API, but not all :)

Edit: And the majority of the feature requests on this thread will not interact with Gmail either once they are created. So Google cannot track as much usage statistics as they would have otherwise.

Google cannot demand I give them any of this information. To be honest, I will not even have most of it. It will all happen on your browser.

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
You are completely right! I should have thought of that! I will move the undo sending of emails to the free plan :)

Thank you so much for the positive vibes :)

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
I like it! How about: "Enhance Gmail to get your Google Inbox features back. Productivity awaits!". This was suggested by another user :)

Do you mean trademark notices with Google?

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Ahh yes, of course! Thanks
DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Hello, that's another great suggestion! Thank you.

Will add it soon. Hopefully, it will help :)

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Well, that is some feedback I will have to incorporate into the design of a new pricing table :L
DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
You are so right about the pricing. It's too confusing. I will change that asap as they are the same plan, it's just that the yearly plan works out cheaper :)
DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
It is so kind of you to defend my position.

Thank you so much. I'm so happy that you understand as it can be difficult for a creator to explain such things :)

I really appreciate it!

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Hell yes! I really really appreciate what you're doing! :)

It's joeytawadrous at gmail dot com

My email is always open to you! :D Thanks again for all your help!

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Hello, and thank you for your comment and for explaining how you feel.

What you have said is true but I'm not sure you fully understand how DarwinMail works.

I hope to alleviate your concerns somewhat by explaining.

DarwinMail does request and use your individual access tokens from Googles API servers in order to retrieve your emails.

All the displaying is done on your browser. Any action you take for your emails is done on your browser. Any email you type and send it handled in your browser.

Sure, DarwinMail is hosted on a server (Linode) but that's just to store the DarwinMail website on the internet so you can visit it.

Even without open sourcing the code, you can still see all of the code that does the above managing of your emails in your own browser! Just right click -> Inspect -> Open up the sources tab and you can see it all! It's not hidden!

In fact, search for Sarge's posts on this thread... that gentleman was looking through the code, reporting bugs to me and telling me how to fix them!

Furthermore, Linode does not take security lightly and are trusted by many many companies and individuals. See for yourself: https://www.linode.com/security

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
That is an interesting point and I very much appreciate your opinion.

I will think about it :)

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
I see the merits of open sourcing DarwinMail. It would open up the platform to develop on it from people all over the world. They would fix bugs for themselves and others and perhaps write mini-features. However, if I open source this code, I may never be able to make any profit on this tool I have spent so much time building :( How will I be able to pay my bills?
DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Correct!

Other than that there is no need to collect much other information at all.

Google Analytics is currently how I see how users found DarwinMail & where they came from.

Google Analytics also provides info such as users device and browser type.

A list of the data Google Analytics collects can be found here:

https://www.shivarweb.com/2977/what-does-google-analytics-do

Google Analytics is the defacto standard for millions of websites across the web.

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Thank you for your questions :)

What information are you referring to?

I would prefer to understand your question better so I can give you honest and hopefully succinct feedback :)

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
That's perfect feedback! Straight from the heart of Google :D ha ha. I think you are referring to bundles? That is most certainly a must as so many people have requested it today.

Thank you for your comment. It made me smile! :)

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Nested Labels is a fantastic idea!

Thank you so so much for your feedback. It's really not a difficult feature at all. Thank you for suggesting it.

I can completely see your use case also, it is a must.

I have added nested labels to the backlog and will work on it asap :)

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Thank you so much for the positive vibes! I'm so happy to hear that :)

It's vanilla JS! Enhanced with libraries such as jQuery, Materialize, XSS, bootstrap, moment, less etc :)

Does she look well on the iPad? ;)

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
You are so right! Thank you for your feedback.

Changed it to "Your privacy is important. Darwin will never record, distribute or sell your personal data to any third parties."

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Wow wow WOWW!

This is the kind of feedback I really really love.

You took your time writing this. You went into perfect detail. You are really really helping, Sarge, thank you a million times over.

This is amazing. Thank you.

I have noted everything you said and will work on those in the coming days.

Thank you so so much.

DarwinMailApp··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
Fantastic!

I will Roger that :) Chrome and Firefox plugins open up such a world of possibilities :)

Thank you for the suggestion!

Feel free to follow me to keep up to date! https://twitter.com/joeytawadrous

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