![]() I get the sense that Brent Simmons (creator of NetNewsWire) is the same way with RSS clients, and that Christian Reber (founder of WunderList) is the same way with task management apps, since both tend to find their way back the same way I have after thinking I was done with email a few times. ![]() This curiosity is what led me to Mail Pilot, and it’s what led me to what you’ll see next from me.Ī significant piece of the personal computing experience is in email. This is something I’ve been deeply fascinated with since I was a kid. For the last few years, I’ve been exploring new and renewed ideas around how the next operating system paradigm might expand people’s ability to think, create, and do. These days, much of my work is focused on researching the future of personal computing. That simply isn’t what this medium is to me, or why I’m in software those are not the challenges I’d like to dedicate my life’s work towards. If they had instead been in today’s race to venture stardom, the app would be juking competition, always expanding in use cases it would eventually become a team-based product with per-seat pricing, a sales team would be hired, and the focus would turn to making sure revenue growth is high enough for the desired valuation during acquisition talks. Disco was an oddly delightful app that had a lot of love in it, made by creative and curious people who wanted to share some of their curiosity with you. When I was first attracted to the field of indie Mac apps as a teen, it was filled with apps like Disco, a disc burner that would emit smoke from its window while it was burning your CD (the smoke would even react to your cursor or to you blowing into your Mac’s mic). As the team jockeys for even bigger success and scale, the user experiences less and less love within the app. Most often, the numbers simply don’t add up.īut in recent years, I’ve started to wonder if that can be viewed as somewhat of a good thing: When apps are on a fast track for needed revenue growth, they tend to sour quickly. For a long time we’ve discussed the challenges of making pro apps on iOS a sustainable venture, as have others. It’s hard to believe how much time has passed or how much our products’ core questions and concepts have carried on.Īt the same time, it’s also hard to see the future of indie software developers sustainably shipping native apps for macOS, iPadOS, and iOS. Mail Pilot, and our second product, Throttle, have together brought lots of new and renewed ideas to email - many of which have become industry-wide standard features for email apps and services over the years. Just over 1,600 backers later, Mail Pilot’s campaign succeeded, and Mindsense was founded. But we certainly did not expect the outpour of support that we got, from an entire community equally as excited as us about the prospect of making email better. When the Kickstarter campaign launched, we didn’t quite know what to expect. The concept I came up with was too compelling to be a homework submission. The prior September, I had decided not to submit an assignment to my senior year computer science course on the design of information. With little more than our first wild idea, dozens of ignored press pitches, and some hope, we launched an all-or-nothing crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter in January, 2012.
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