Front Blog
blog.frontapp.com · Company blog · on HN since 2013
The team behind Front, a shared email inbox startup, writes about launching products, SaaS pricing, beta signups and the future of email.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for startup launch advice, such as comparing Show HN, TechCrunch and Product Hunt, and for its argument that email will last.
21HN people shared it
5linked it in comments
52stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product4 people · 196 points · first shared 2014 · 72 comments on HN
- 2Leveraging Twitter for Startups to Find Beta-Testers4 people · 15 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 3Email will last forever3 people · 350 points · first shared 2014 · 162 comments on HN
- 4How we de-risked our SaaS pricing strategy2 people · 93 points · first shared 2017 · 24 comments on HN
- 5E-mail didn't really evolve since Gmail. Why is it so hard to innovate?2 people · 42 points · first shared 2014 · 53 comments on HN
- 6What Makes A Great SaaS Homepage?2 people · 7 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 7Three months at Y Combinator: what it’s like and how to get in1 people · 102 points · first shared 2014 · 48 comments on HN
- 8Where To Find Your First 2,000 Beta Signups1 people · 52 points · first shared 2014 · 11 comments on HN
- 9Why Email and Cars are heading down the same road1 people · 45 points · first shared 2014 · 46 comments on HN
- 10SaaS: 4 Mistakes We’ve Done During Our Beta And How To Avoid Them1 people · 36 points · first shared 2014 · 10 comments on HN
- 11What we’ve learned listening to 6,000+ people complaining about email1 people · 26 points · first shared 2014 · 17 comments on HN
- 12Why The Greatest Online Tool, Email, Still Needs Disruption1 people · 24 points · first shared 2014 · 27 comments on HN
- 13Don't give access to your beta for free, swap it1 people · 16 points · first shared 2014 · 10 comments on HN
- 14Bad Communication is a Vicious Cycle1 people · 10 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 15Predicting the Future of Email1 people · 9 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
l_perrin · 2014-10-02
We blogged about our launch: http://blog.frontapp.com/hacker-news-techcrunch-and-product-hunt-which…
Following our TC launch, we were featured in other channels, which gave us more signups. 300 might not seem like a lot, but these figures are very conservative and we only counted users that really tried the app.
bigbugbag · 2015-11-03
well then I suppose you have a facebook and have blocked all those annoying email from facebook warning you about what's happening on facebook which is a dead giveaway that facebook understand that email is where the action is/was/will be.
Try surveying an inbox of those who do not use facebook. Chances are you'll get quite a different picture.
You can also have a look at those:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/why-email-will-n…
http://blog.frontapp.com/email-will-last-forever (seems to be down at the moment, try the wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20150331054046/http://blog.frontapp.com/ema… )
ianwalter · 2014-09-16
Probably Front
http://blog.frontapp.com/email-will-last-forever/
mathouc · 2014-02-25
Oh, just wrote an article about the lessons we learned from that: http://blog.frontapp.com/lessons-from-facebook-stopping-its-e-mail-ser…
ilovefood · 2013-12-12
I'm in your situation but my MVP is not done yet, now what you do is get interesting users, learn how they use it and then maybe add some features.
Read : http://blog.frontapp.com/leveraging-twitter-to-find-beta-testers-a-rea…