Werksmail is a web-based email service designed for small teams. It aims to improve collaboration by allowing emails to be shared and commented on by multiple users. The service will have an API that enables other applications to access inbox data. Werksmail positions itself as a more social and integrated email solution than competitors like Google Apps. It must still add some features before launch such as supporting external email accounts and migrations from other services.
4. Two Great Ideas:
• What if your highrise/basecamp
account could talk to your inbox?
• What if your inbox could talk to
your boss's inbox, so everyone
know what's going on?
6. No data portabilty!
• There's no email service that
provides a convenient api for
external services.
• Practically impossible for your
other applications to mine your
inbox.
7. Your inbox is asocial!
• Bill e-mails Fred and Mary. Fred decides Bob should be in on
the conversation too, so he replies and CCs Bob.
• Mary replies to the first e-mail and Bob misses out on her
reply.
• Then Fred doesn’t want to take part anymore, but still keeps
getting everybodys’ replies and can’t opt out.
• Later there’s an argument about who said what and who got it,
and people have to trawl through badly formatted quotes at the
bottom of old e-mails to work out what actually happened.
9. How we do it
• every member of your team gets an email
account @company.werksmail.com
• add a domain name to get aliases like
@company.com
• assign/share emails with someone else in your
team
• comments/notes on an email are visible to
everyone
10. How we do it
• REST api that exposes your messages to
external services
• Third party apps can now mine your inbox!
14. Strenghts
• Specifically geared towards small
businesses
• Designed to have an API => an
ecosystem would develop (difficult
to replicate by competitors)
• Easy to adopt
15. To-dos before launch
• Add support for external email
accounts
• Migrations from gmail/other imap
accounts
• Speak IMAP!