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1. Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2019 09:52:34 EDT Ted Gould

   Silicon valley has now given a $250M valuation to an email client with keyboard shortcuts.

   No really.

   And it is so much fast because... wait for it... it caches things locally and isn't delivered as a webpage.

   — https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/technology/superhuman-email.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

   1. Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2019 09:58:01 EDT Ted Gould

      in reply to

      I also want to say if you want most of these features you can just get Mailspring, it is great and Open Source.

      https://getmailspring.com/

      Even available as a Snap maintained by the developers

      https://snapcraft.io/mailspring

   2. Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx)'s status on Friday, 28-Jun-2019 10:30:48 EDT Ted Gould

      in reply to

      I've now come full circle on this.

      I realize that the real value is that they've set up a system that is basically a trap to get other VC's login details to their email. And a plausible reason to download and parse all of their email.

      They've basically made an very efficient fishing attack on VCs by using "exclusivity" and a high price.

      I think that I support this?