thread.is
Productivity
email sharing
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
4 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 2 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.11.
Privacy: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, nice-looking UI
From 2 comments
First of all the UI looks clean and impressive. It'll be great if you could also show who all were on that email thread and may be social links of people involved. On a side…
theone on HNI just tried this out. Looks good, though I have a comment. How come I don't see the date and time per email on the thread?
sfaruque on HN
Interesting idea building on email
From 2 comments
For all of the discussion about how to create distributed social networks I'm surprised there aren't more things built on top of email. This is nice. There's a lot of potential…
state on HNWow. I was just wondering if something like this existed not an hour ago. Looks pretty cool, excited to try it out.
rglover on HN
Objections
Requires Gmail access; users prefer forwarding or cc
From 2 comments
Looks nice! But instead of authorizing you access to my gmail account, I'd rather just forward you a thread. You could parse the incoming mail, and reply me the link.
PanMan on HNI know you'd miss the syncing, but why not let me just cc something@thread.is instead of having to gain access to my google account? It would be usable to people on exchange as…
Johngibb on HN
Privacy risk of sharing threads with unknown recipients
From 2 comments
Twist: There might be copyright issues, absent (express) consent of both parties. But i could still see this being interesting in some contexts.
001sky on HNGood point. Even without BCC, you have no control over who gets added to a conversation later on. I can think of at least a few instances where a client casually CC'd me on what…
peterjmag on HN
Requests
Support for Outlook conversations
From 1 comment
Any plans on adding support for Outlook conversations? I have had great technical conversations via Outlook that I would have loved to share with the team, but ended up having to…
madsushi on HN
Show dates and times per email
From 1 comment
I just tried this out. Looks good, though I have a comment. How come I don't see the date and time per email on the thread?
sfaruque on HN
Inbound email forwarding instead of Gmail access
From 1 comment
Looks nice! But instead of authorizing you access to my gmail account, I'd rather just forward you a thread. You could parse the incoming mail, and reply me the link.
PanMan on HN
Questions
How many emails can a thread handle?
From 1 comment
How many emails in a thread can this handle? A friend was JUST asking me of a way to export a 55,000 email long email thread. Will he break this if he uses it?
yahelc on HN
How to delete a thread?
From 1 comment
How do I delete a thread?
slashclee on HN
Alternatives named
Google Groups for shared email threads
From 1 comment
If you are using Google Apps for your domain (at least the Business version -- maybe the free one too), you can setup a private Google group and CC it to store such information…
Erwin on HN
Highrise
From 1 comment
We had thought about doing it this way but it won't help capturing the responses from the people we email. This is how highrise works and it has that pain.
kalv on HN