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Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
How does this compare to Boxy @thomas_101 ?
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Thanasis@tnsrig · UI/UX @travelplanet24 @airtickets_gr
@bentossell Nice question!
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vagelim@vagelim
@bentossell For one thing, it's free.
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Curtis Herbert@parrots · Developer and Designer
@vagelim @bentossell in my book that's a bad thing, less chance it'll stick around. Tired of email clients disappearing after I start to love them.
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Folke Lemaitre@folke · CEO, Engagor
@bentossell It's free and is faster than Boxy on my laptop. Not sure what Boxy is using to render html, but it's for sure a different engine than WMail. WMail is more like how you would get Inbox on Chrome I guess.
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Veronica Belmont@veronica · Destroyer of Worlds (and PM at Growbot)
@parrots @bentossell And Calendar apps :-/
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Fabrizio Rinaldi@linuz90 · filmmaker
@folke we're making huge improvements to Boxy, version 1.0.3 will be smoother and faster, while preserving our unique look. We actually rewritten the whole styling layer to accomplish this, I can't wait to ship the update :)
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Ankush Dharkar@ankushdharkar · Technical Founder, YUDEK
@parrots @bentossell Have you tried out https://www.producthunt.com/tech... yet?
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Thomas Beverley@thomas_101 · Co-Founder & Software Dev, Stacktodo
@bentossell I'm one of these people who have a lot of e-mail accounts across multiple providers. It's a pain that they're all locked away in the web browser with their own individual features, quirks and tools. I wrote WMail to bring these together into a single app that can give me some more native level controls and information, such as unread counts. It … See more
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Ruben Garcia@rubengarciam · Solutions Engineer @ Dropbox
@thomas_101 have you considered using Electron for multi-platform support?
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Thomas Beverley@thomas_101 · Co-Founder & Software Dev, Stacktodo
@rubengarciam I do actually use electron! I've got a linux build almost ready for release thanks to great some help from some contributors and I'll be working on windows support soon after!
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Myke J@mykecheckonetwo
@bentossell after having used both now for 2-3 weeks this blows boxy out of the water the updates are fast and useful. The speed of (and UI for) switching between accounts is much speedier than boxy and there's even desktop notifications (which from my last check wasn't available with boxy). Granted there's still some polish that needs to come but overall it… See more
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