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Missive
Company blog · missiveapp.com/blog · on HN as plehouxstartupsbusinessproductivity
Missive is the company blog at missiveapp.com, writing about startups, business and productivity. Since 2015, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 66 times, most often “Show HN: Missive, a new email client for Mac”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (17) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mention Missive, a shared inbox app for teams that run on email, often as an alternative to Front or Hey. Some also point to its landing page copy and its changelog.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 17 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
See what’s going on, know who’s doing what, and collaborate behind the scenes — without changing your workflow. Try for free!
Most-linked posts?
- /8 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2016-03-09
- Show HN: Missive, a new email client for Mac5 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2015-12-07
- The life and death of email read tracking3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-15
- The Changelog – An Alternative Tool for Growing Your Business2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-16
- /features/auto-block-read-trackers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-02
- /changelog2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-19
- We ditched Google Analytics2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-01
What Hacker News says?
This is our exact approach at Missive. You 100% control system prompts. Although, it's more powerful... it does take more time to setup and get right. https://missiveapp.com/blog/autopilot-for-your-inbox-ai-rule...
Comment linking /blog/autopilot-for-your-inbox-ai-rules-have-arrived
on “AI Horseless Carriages”Submitted How we bootstrapped a $1M ARR email client as a story · 284 points
HN discussionThat made me chuckle. I cringe at exaggerated, buzz-wordy, vague sales-copy as much as the other person, but isn't it shown to work (by Apple et al)? I'd be interested if you or anyone else have examples of to-the-point landing pages / sales-copy with zero exaggeration and gimmicks. I liked the WhatsApp's back in the day [0], but they had a lot going for them and didn't need any extraordinary claims. MissiveApp [1]…
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on “Hard Startups”Submitted The life and death of email read tracking as a story · 245 points
HN discussion"But as we deepened our focus on collaboration, we realized there’s only so much an email app can do to fundamentally fix email." We beg to differ. We built a new email client around the very idea that it could fix team collaboration: https://missiveapp.com The thing is… with Sparrow, Mailbox and countless others before, it is getting really hard for a team like us to convince people to invest their time into our ne…
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on “Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox”Submitted We ditched Google Analytics as a story · 212 points
HN discussionI'm the CEO at Conferencebadge.com but I also happen to be the CEO at https://missiveapp.com , a team communication SAAS. Both home pages were designed by the same team. Designing Missive's home page was way harder. Why Conference Badge: - I have a conference in a few days, I have absolutely no time, I don't know how to do this but I need badges. HELP! Why Missive: - I have a shared inbox, I need to easily collabora…
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on “I've compiled the best SaaS Landing pages and broke down all their secrets”Submitted Things we did not do while reaching $2M ARR as a story · 194 points
HN discussion"Collaborative email on top of G Suite. The main thing we pay for is a comment box below each email thread. It allows us to quickly discuss emails without forwarding or copy/pasting in Slack. It also allows us to edit drafts collaboratively and have multiple team inboxes for invoices, support, and other stuff." Thanks for the mention Francesco. I'm Philippe, one of the co-founders of Missive [1], don't hesitate if y…
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on “SaaS We Happily Pay For”Submitted On Being a Tiny Team (At $2M ARR) and the One Thing We Can't Scale as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI'm the co-founder of a pretty lean & 100% word of mouth >1.5M ARR SAAS [1], but god, I'm jealous of the success of Peter, who got to this point with a simple tech stack. Pretty sure a lot of people here have the same feeling. It's one I had before, and I still have after my success. There is always something else, something better you wish you had. In my hometown, there is an entrepreneur; one everyone knows who st…
Comment linking /blog/how-we-built-1m-arr-email-client
on “Remote OK Open Startup”Submitted The life and death of read tracking as a story · 8 points
HN discussionWe use Missive[0] and it's pretty good. It's definitely not as low price as Jelly though. [0] https://missiveapp.com/
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on “Show HN: Jelly – A simpler shared inbox for small teams”Submitted The Death of IMAP for Microsoft Users as a story · 7 points
HN discussion“A technology that works 70% of the time is a bad one.” https://missiveapp.com/blog/life-and-death-of-read-tracking
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on “Chief scientist of major corporation can’t handle criticism of the work he hypes”Submitted Improve your team email productivity with Missive (new email client) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMissive — https://missiveapp.com Started as a collaborative email client, but expanding to offer chat and general team communication features. Your inbox already acts as a todo list, so it’s the best foundation to build a powerful and unified collaboration platform. We’ll ultimately become your one true todo list. One that gathers tasks from all channels: email, chat, etc. This pretty much makes us competitors to em…
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL”Submitted We coded our affiliate program from scratch, you should too as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is the only reason we can as a tiny team of 3 keep pushing features/improvements[1] on all platforms. Not to say it's perfect. [1] https://missiveapp.com/changelog
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on “We tried to hustle our way into YC after we got rejected”Submitted Why Missive ditched Google Analytics for good as a story · 3 points
HN discussionmissiveapp.com and conferenceBadge.com, my two startups, have both been rejected at the interview phase. Our yearly revenue for both now stands in the 7 digits. We are still just a team of 3 + 1 employee, 100% bootstrapped. Life is good. My advice, keep pushing! https://missiveapp.com/ https://www.conferencebadge.com
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on “We tried to hustle our way into YC after we got rejected”Submitted The Changelog – An Alternative Tool for Growing Your Business as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> There’s literally nothing like that today, 15+ years later. For those seeking a comparative app for todays platforms, here are some that were mentioned on HN. https://missiveapp.com/ https://www.beeperhq.com/?hn
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on “Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody has since”Submitted A Decade of Lazy Marketing to $500k MRR as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThey actually have a tracker blocker as a core feature: https://missiveapp.com/features/auto-block-read-trackers Their approach works by blocking trackers specifically, similar to an ad blocker, rather than blocking all external resources completely. Hey.com take a similar approach I think. Although the images from that test service are allowed, trackers from all the popular email tracking services will be blocked (…
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on “How we bootstrapped a $1M ARR email client”Submitted Embracing Hard Limits as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMissive is geared towards small to midsize businesses as a collaborative platform to manage all communications (internal and external). We wrote this post explaining some of the differences: https://missiveapp.com/frontapp-vs-missive
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on “How we bootstrapped a $1M ARR email client”Submitted Shared inbox – How businesses collaborate around email as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI agree, at Missive ( https://missiveapp.com ) it took way longer than we originally thought to get to MVP, ~around 1.75 year (and we only support Gmail/Google app for the moment)
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on “Email made me miserable, so I decided to build my own email app from scratch”Submitted Show HN: Missive, a new email client for Mac as a story · 2 points
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