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Consider — An email client designed to keep you calm and focused
What's the role of email in today's world? Our answer: an email that leans into being asynchronous, that helps you focus on what's being said, and that embraces the myriad ways email is used.
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@nelsonjoyce Thank you!
Not quite an assumption but we thought it would be cool if we sorted your inbox oldest first. Make it a bit calmer. Push you to not procrastinate. ... But it was terrible. :-) Just made you scroll to the bottom a lot. And then we came up with Digests!
I was lucky enough to get a sneak peak at the product by @benmcredmond .
The product is beautiful and the team has put a ton of hard work into solving the hard problems of email. The UI is impeccable and super snappy. I'm excited for the product and happy that someone is thinking mindfully about our current communication overload ( Solving it with Digests etc)
Congratulation on the launch Consider team.
Very excited to see this hit the market. The depth of thinking behind it is astonishing and inspiring and will lead to great things.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Ben. CEO at Consider.
We started Consider because we're fans of email. We like that email doesn’t interrupt you. And that subject lines keep threads focused. And we love that anyone can email anyone else. But email has its problems, problems that we are all too familiar with. So we set out to build an email for today's world.
What's different about today's world? Most importantly, email is no longer responsible for both real-time communication and slower, asynchronous communication. Slack has taken responsibility for the former. Which means we can finally focus email on what it's great at.
And that's what Consider does. You shouldn't be checking your email a hundred times a day, so we invented Digests. With Digests, your less-important mails get added to the inbox three times a day in batches. It doesn't make sense for your phone to be lighting up all day, so we created Precise Notifications. Your inbox *is* a to-do list, we embrace that and let your own to-dos live alongside everything else.
The result is an email client that is calmer, less noisy, and that lets you focus on getting your work done. This is just the start for us. We hope you'll check it out and join us on this journey.
– Ben
@benmcredmond Love your team's approach to email! Signed up for early access.
@benmcredmond @_shahedk Also signed up. I'm currently in the Superhuman beta and would love to compare the two. Congrats on the launch and good luck!
Congrats guys!
Great to see more people joining the space and educating people that meaningful work w/o interruptions matters.
Been using Consider for ~3-4 months
Pros:Digests are great. Branching threads with different recipients is AMAZING.
Cons:It's still missing a few things that you'd expect from a next-gen email client.
Can you tell me anything about your privacy policy? Are you accessing the content, subject, or sender/recipients of the emails? What kind of tracking and storing are you doing re: senders and recipients? Is our email data encrypted from your team?
(Apologies if this sounds rude or aggressive -- necessary questions when dealing with any
email services)
I really loved the idea! I was almost sold on dropping everything I've got and starting to use this until I saw the price. 168,- per year is a lot of money.
@lucahalma Some people will think it's a bargain, some others will think it's crazy. Pricing is right for those who send and receive email *a lot*.
Been beta testing it for about 3 months now
Pros:Love the digests. No unread state is amazing, Product evolving fast!! Haven't looked back.
Cons:Some of the conversation threading a little repetitive, but much easier to grok when they're separate threads.
This is also not compliant with GDPR or PECR in the UK. Removing styling from HTML emails comes at the cost of accesibility
Pros:Nice clean inbox
Cons:The data policy is worrying, essentially allowing them to sell your data and market to you freely.
Cool website design! Love the palette and fun little bits of the design system. Why not incorporating the same design philosophy into your actual product?
I am sure (at least I hope) you have a very good reason for not considering an Android release at launch, focusing on iOS and the Web but I, like many people (many more than there are iPhone users) do not currently use an iPhone or will be using one going forward and I hope you can sympathize with the fact to us (Android users), when a new company such as yourselves comes out with a product, of course touting that it's the best thing since sliced bread (I completely understand why a developer has to tout it this way), and doesn't release an Android version, for me that's sort of a slap in the face. I would completely understand if Android wasn't the world dominating mobile OS that it is but that's not the case. Apart from that, it's a bad business decision since you're excluding potentially a big subset of users that won't even consider your product.
@lyondhur I won't make judgement before using it but on the face of it, yes, $14/month strictly for an email client is high especially considering that this is geared for businesses where Microsoft is charging roughly $100/year ($8/month) for Office 365 Business that comes with Outlook and the latest Outlook keeps getting better and more user friendly. Sure, I am sure this has it beat from a visual or UI perspective, it looks nicer I'll give them that but value wise it would be hard to justify the productivity value to an employee using this at a higher premium versus getting full on Office 365 Suite of software for much less a month/year.
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