Show HN: Hashtags for Email
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Demo @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69mqGL08_hc
Hashtagging Important Emails
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Problems Being Solved:
1) Personal - Help organize your important emails and group conversation threads regardless of subject header.
2) Team Projects - Much of the content lives in the emails. Hashtagging relevant and milestone project emails into a central team access hub or a Sharepoint for Emails. This enable project progression tracking as oppose to creating a separate project log typically with Excel.
3) Work - Replaces overwhelming, unnecessary or less-critical CC'ed emails. Instead, invite users onto a Hashtag thread for them to read at their own time.
4) Search - Existing Search features are inadequate. Really requires the user to remember the content/context of the email before search can begin.
5) Sharepoint - Mostly use as storing files. Lacks files context and project description.
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Experience:
- Organizing through hashtag in the email content is a more fluent experience than reorganizing your emails into folders, which is only for personal view, and not team based.
- Max numbers of hashtags in emails can be set.
- New social rules would be created that I cannot control. Within a professional setting, if employees are using hashtags in excess, they would be flown upon.
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Testing Assumption:
- Market would be focusing largely on professionals and will also have an Enterprise-dedicated product.
- Hashtag currently associates with entertainment. Social fear of it in professional communications.
- Frequency of use. Crux of inbox overload from massive unnecessary emails. Organizing important threads from non-important messages.
- Quotes and Research @ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RQtgYl44iBnr_p4toc4G7_N0DG9bZ35JKHTLBNqtG0c/edit?usp=sharing
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I like the idea. Recently, I've thought about two similar concepts:
a.) Ad-Hoc mailing lists / discussion groups you can subscribe to or drop out of at any time. b.) Discussions and status updates you can merely follow (and save for later) instead of participate in without those updates clogging your inbox.
The use case for both would be situations where - especially in larger companies - lots of people get CCed or BCCed because the just need to be in the loop but don't actually have to contribute anything.
I very much like you hashtag approach. It seems like the right solution to this problem. However, I don't quite understand why you took a mobile-first approach. At least in settings I have in mind a web or desktop app would make a lot more sense.
If you'd like to discuss this in more detail I'm looking forward to an eMail from you (contact form / contact details under http://wilmsmann.fullmontymedia.com/ ).
This seems like a great idea for businesses. It's not clear from your video why you are using a mobile app. I mean, it's great to offer a mobile app, but I feel like the first piece would be getting this to work on desktop, like with a chrome plugin or something, no?
I like the idea. I can see its usage in an enterprise setting.