What is the most annoying thing about emails as of right now?
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Emails were designed as a replacement for physical mail years ago, but in an age where Gen Z is entering the workforce, we use emails for teams and business communication.
I want to hear your thoughts on this.
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Ekrem Çetinkaya@ekrcet
Receiving too many of them because I clicked a button somewhere sometime :)
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@sandradjajic yea exactly, and the worst is they just keep coming to your inbox from different emails.
Volume, Velocity, and Variety of emails, we're receiving are the most annoying thing
@janak_patel56 hmm, when you say velocity is it also because we can't see if the email was read or not, so you need to keep sending more followup emails, waiting on a reply.. and I guess the fact that emails are threads unlike IMs inside contacts.
Even though emails are way better than random a phone number, one main issue for the Gen Z workforce with Emails is that it's not natural to have a flowing conversation, like most other communication platforms like Slack and WhatsApp
@marksachintha 💯 yup makes sense, we practically grew up with a mobile in our back pockets..emails were rarely used for communicating (mostly for maybe Uni work and online signups)
I really care about 5-10% of emails I receive.
I want to:
- view only emails should concern me now (important matters)
- see what I need to follow up on by the end of the day
- emails from receivers that I never opened in the past most probably won't concern me in the future so they should disappear from my sight
- auto-unsubscribe from emails/ newsletter that haven't been opened several times in a raw
@elizabeth_tischencko I can't emphasise on how relatable this is! 🥲 Ik all these platforms have these filters and labels for your inbox, but somehow all those annoying irrelevant emails crawl their way back in to my main inbox.
Searchability is a huge one for me. I wish an AI agent would just manage my inbox for me the ways EAs do.
We're actually using AI to generate SQL from text and launching today, if anyone wants to check us out!
@jesika_haria if only we figured out a way to organize emails better, so that the need to search becomes less or unnecessary.
AI is definitely a good way to go 🙌
What annoys me the most is when you subscribe to something that interest you, and then later you start receiving newsletters from the same person/company for other products and services. This means that they copy an email list and paste it to their other email lists! That's not ethical at all ...
They are difficult to manage :)
too many I don't care
From a Gen Z'er
Writing them - finding the line between professional and human. Luckily my current company has a playful, fun brand voice, so it makes writing emails and copy in general more enjoyable. You really get to be a human! However, at a past job, there was such a pressure to be perfect and professional at all times when writing external emails - which is fine, but it really removed the human touch for me and did not allow me to connect with clients as much.
Receiving them - getting long emails I need to scroll through and not feeling like I am being spoken to. Just a simple "Hi," emoji, or "!" point goes a long way.
@elissa_craig This is true. When we have different generations working together, it gets even harder because we are used to different forms of digital communication right; long emails vs instant texts.
Agreed with you, when it's just a simple yes or no answer, we don't really need to type a long email with, " Dear.. hope you are keeping well." 🥱
@elissa_craig Hey Elissa, we launched Zapmail today, https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Would love to hear what you think, because Zapmail is trying to make emails more conversational and human.
I wish AI could suggest Newsletters to unsubscribe if I haven't read those in a long time.
Hi everyone, we finally launched Zapmail, an app that might be able to help you with spam. We have designed it in a way where you have a focused inbox, means only the emails you want will show up there.
Apart from that, since its organized under contacts, even if someone spams you 100 times, that will only show up once on your general inbox and stay inside that one person's email head. We still have a long way to go and some more features that can help you with staying organized at work.
Do check it out, would love any feedback: https://www.producthunt.com/post...
We are also giving a launch promo where you can signup for the essentials plan for free. (Emails with your own domain, unlimited users and channels)
@ekrcet @sandradjajic @janak_patel56 @elizabeth_tischencko @yieldway @yampolsky