plehoux

Co-founder at Missive, an email client built entirely in HTML/JS; Electron on desktop; Cordova on mobile.

You can try the app, it's way faster than Mail from Apple. Apple even featured the app multiple times on the mobile App store; again all HTML/JS.

Making fast software in HTML/JS is definitely possible.

An email client is mostly HTML/Style rendering so our use case might be more aligned.

You can learn more about how we made it fast by listening to :

https://syntax.fm/show/184/desktop-and-mobile-apps-with-a-si...

I think he is referencing those tweets: https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/126545757821512499...

I guess you've edited your comment. But FYI:

> Quebec presents $4-billion surplus for 2019-20 amid booming economy

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-quebec-presen...

This, even if population growth is less than the other provinces. Am all for debate, but you should update your held view.

Wouldn't Starlink by Space X solve this? Authoritarian govs. would make it illegal to subscribe... but like VPNs it would be very hard to police, even harder.

"I'll always invest in product and engineering over marketing"

This is an often overlooked strategy from small to to big businesses, but one that pays off long term. We're a 3 people SASS having the same philosophy, and it's starting to pays off (we're 100% organic :)). Nice to hear Wordpress has the same.

It's crazy the number of people expecting our SASS pricing to be negotiable. We offer one fair pricing to everyone and have no time to make special case pricing for every single user.

I guess more prominent startups/companies embrace this as a tool to close or retain customers.

Sorry! Yes, we do. Assignment, comments, triaging, Out of office status and more. https://missiveapp.com/features

Thanks Elen!

Disclosure: Missive is a Canny customer, Canny is Missive customer

We love Canny at Missive! If curious how we use it checkout our Canny board: https://missive.canny.io

And an example of users interacting with us on feature development through it: https://missive.canny.io/feature-requests/p/dedicated-team-i...

One of our primary goals is to create a AAA email client that behaves like you expect an email client to. A second goal is to inject collaboration in the email experience. Those two goals make Missive a perfect candidate for email support.

I'm co-founder of Missive [1], mentioned in the post. If any of you have questions, I would be happy to answer them.

[1] https://missiveapp.com/

This is the only reason we can as a tiny team of 3 keep pushing features/improvements[1] on all platforms. Not to say it's perfect.

[1] https://missiveapp.com/changelog

Went into the why and how in this podcast https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/033-philippe-lehoux-of-...

Badge printing kits/holders are not free :) https://www.amazon.com/Avery-Badges-Lanyards-Holders-Inserts...

missiveapp.com and conferenceBadge.com, my two startups, have both been rejected at the interview phase. Our yearly revenue for both now stands in the 7 digits. We are still just a team of 3 + 1 employee, 100% bootstrapped. Life is good. My advice, keep pushing!

https://missiveapp.com/ https://www.conferencebadge.com

In 1918, the Canadian/British army opened fire on people from my own neighbourhood in Quebec city, many deaths.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89meute_de_Qu%C3%A9bec_de_...

This is never talked about by politicians. People from my city don't even know about this anymore. Those traumatic events and the force conscription from the two world wars were precursor to Quebec separatist movement. I guess it was the same elsewhere in the colonies.

Internal

I'm the CEO at Conferencebadge.com but I also happen to be the CEO at https://missiveapp.com, a team communication SAAS.

Both home pages were designed by the same team.

Designing Missive's home page was way harder.

Why Conference Badge:

- I have a conference in a few days, I have absolutely no time, I don't know how to do this but I need badges. HELP!

Why Missive:

  - I have a shared inbox, I need to easily collaborate around some emails.
  - I want to consolidate all my shared inboxes into one app.
  - I have an assistant, I want to her/him to help me with my emails.
  - I want to merge back both internal and external communication into one app.
  - I receive hundreds of orders a day, I want an app that let me share the load in between my production team.
  - I'm a solo user I just want a fast email app that works fast on Android and a Mac.
  - I want an app that lets me auto send confirmation SMS to my customer when their order is ready.
  - I want to chat with my team in a threaded interface
  - …

Some products are easier to market.

Missive is a central hub for all your team communications, both internal (chat) and external (emails, Twitter, Fb, SMS). We offer an email client like interface (thread based).

The key difference is we offer internal chat (no tied to external conversations) and the UI is more akin to your email client. You consume everything from an Inbox.

Missive really feels like a snappy email client, a lot of our paying users even use it alone (not in a team context) just because they like the UI. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j95F4sr5Qdw)

Same with us at last year at missiveapp.com, the interview was relaxed, still could not articulate what we were doing based on the questions. They even talked about some of our metrics at the end, those were wrong, like from the previous time we applied.

We were rejected, the reason: No market.

To YC's defense... they interview so many incredible founders.

We grew between 10% and 30% every months since. So in the end all good.

Our team was also rejected in 2013 with conferencebadge.com... that time we bombed the interview and were really bad. The business has now grown to 7 figures a year.

Both businesses are still managed by our small team of 3 co-founders and one employee and are quite successful. We own 100%.

What if we would have made the cut... who knows...

Statu quo is also hurting the local economy. All local businesses have to charge taxes to customers, they are at disadvantage to foreign based companies.

As shown here, Electron app can support this easily: https://medium.com/missive-app/make-your-electron-app-dark-m...

If you are interested in how to make your Electron app dark mode compatible (with CSS), here is how we did it: https://medium.com/missive-app/make-your-electron-app-dark-m...

This presentation by David Bennahum, who moved his startup from NYC to Montreal is fascinating even for me a guy born and raised in Quebec.

He talks about personal compensation, taxes, subsidies & tax credits, insurance, visas, etc... and it's crazy.

Others might have different take of this... still fascinating to see how far your $ can go in Montreal VS NYC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOnaFt4v0ek

Not really, maybe if bought in bulk. 5$ for 1g seems pretty competitive with black market.

See Quebec province online store for pot: https://www.sqdc.ca/en-CA/ which launched this morning.

If you are interested to see what/how the products are marketed, see the SQDC website from Quebec province: https://www.sqdc.ca/en-CA/

1g = ~CAD$5

At Missive, we offer a hybrid approach that merges the silos of both external and internal communication back into one app.

https://missiveapp.com/slack-vs-missive (detailed post, with meat)

As foreign as chat is to email, mixing them unleashes unforeseen possibilities, like directly referencing customer emails in dev chat conversations discussing feature implementation.

Making collaboration between email heavy teams (sales, support) and chat heavy teams (dev) easier.

I personally think that using a threaded based UI is more efficient to use than the infinite channel Slack offers even for chat.

e.g. Having your Github notifications grouped into different threads based on branches and pull requests all labeled with a Github label.

Deleting characters in a textarea on an HTML page with more than a few thousand characters is incredibly slow on an iPhone X device.

STEPS: 1. Visit https://missiveapp.com/iphone_x_test_case with an iPhone X 2. Focus the textarea 3. Touch the backspace key to delete characters

Boom! The iPhone X UI will hang for a few seconds! every time the word suggestion bubble appears.

This slowness only affects iPhone X, other models will delete characters with no sluggishness.

I post this here to raise awareness at Apple... it has been the case for the last 6 months.

Europe/Japan are as worried as USA about IP theft and totally unfair access to the Chinese market.

India and South-East Asia countries have no love affair with China.

Africa is more and more disillusioned with China `investments`.

One thing that annoys me on Netflix... is the Netflix logo on show's thumbnail...

I wouldn't mind a Netflix label in the UI, but watermarking every covers feels gross, it dilutes the personality of each show.