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Inbox evolved: reach new levels of productivity
Joey Tawadrous
Darwin Mail — Enhance Gmail to get your Google Inbox features back.
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💌 Inbox Evolved: reach new levels of productivity.
I created Darwin Mail to help us be our most productive when dealing with emails & todos.
Through reminders, snoozing, templates, undo send, dark mode, custom backgrounds & more.
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Joey Tawadrous
👋 Hello Product Hunters! ✌️ I’m Joey, the maker of Darwin Mail. Thank you so much for reading this far! 💛 FREE LIFETIME COUPON - Just share Darwin Mail on Twitter/Hacker News/Reddit/Indie Hackers! — Darwin Mail aims to help you be your most productive when dealing with emails & todos. 👋 Problem Inbox by Google was one of the best products they ever made. And then they shut it down. 💌 Solution Introducing Darwin Mail, which aims to replace and become better than Google Inbox ever was. 🚀 How & Why - How can Darwin Mail become better than Inbox by Google? - Why would we use you over competitors? 1. We will not sell your data, abuse our power or ignore your requests... 2. Because we respect your privacy. 3. We understand that the product can only become great if each & every suggestion is listened to. 4. We have a public roadmap, public changelog, and open lines of communication. 5. The primary focus of Darwin Mail is to help you be productive. Each and every change is made for that sole reason. 💎 Features - Snoozing Running late? Or need to forget about an email for now? Snooze your emails and take care of them later. - Reminders Clear your mind with our reminders feature. Jot down your reminder so you don't forget about it. - Dark Mode A sleek and less distracting option for managing your email & todos while ensuring you're at your most productive. - Undo Send Do you ever wish you could take back what you just said in that email? - Custom Backgrounds Choose a custom Unsplash HD background to be displayed behind all your emails, ensuring you feel at home in your Inbox. - Templates Create multiple email templates (product launch, feedback, promotion, testing, recruiting etc) and use them in your emails to save you loads of time. - & much more according to your requests! Just let everyone know exactly what you would like! https://www.darwinmail.app/feedb... https://twitter.com/joeytawadrous Darwin Mail will evolve to become great over time, thanks to its users, and thanks to you. Please join me on this journey ❤️
Danielle Johnson
@joey_tawadrous I was devastated when Google shut down inbox 💔. Darwin Mail looks great and with a few more features will be a perfect replacement. Congratulations on the launch 🚀 excited to see what this becomes!
Joey Tawadrous
@dinkydani21 Wohoooo! I was devastated too, but I saw an opportunity to build a new tool that aims to replace and become better than Google Inbox ever was. Introducing... Darwin Mail ✌️ Thank you so much for the positive vibes, Danielle! Yourself and @jamesivings have been so amazing, kind & supportive. I really appreciate it ❤️
Mubaris NK
@joey_tawadrous Congrats on the launch, Joey 🚀 A wonderful alternative for Inbox ♥️
Joey Tawadrous
@mubaris Thank you so much, Mubaris 🙏 Ever since I heart Inbox was shutting down I knew that there would be so many unhappy people, including me. For that reason I decided to create DarwinMail 😊 I really appreciate your support man 🤙
Peter Thaleikis
Congrats to the launch @joey_tawadrous! Great that you jump in and fill the gap Inbox is leaving. Good luck for the future
Anna Filou
Question: does Darwin work well with Gmail's "send as" feature? I.e. I've connected multiple email addresses to my Gmail account and can choose which address to send an email from whenever I write one.
Francoo
im upvoting for the effort, but i, as a power user of web email, do not see anything new. How is this better than native gmail (web desktop + mobile native) ? Very much of the features are out of the box in gmail, right ?
Joey Tawadrous
@francoolaami Thank you for your question :) 1. I understand that the product can only become great if each & every suggestion is listened to, so thank you! 2. DarwinMail has a public roadmap, public changelog, and open lines of communication. 3. The primary focus of Darwin Mail is to help you be productive. Each and every change is made for that sole reason. They're 3 reasons why I believe DarwinMail is worth the try!
R. Fancsiki
@joey_tawadrous Will this product stick around for a while? At least some years? I really miss Inbox reminders, but I am afraid to jump on this just to be discontinued in a year.
Joey Tawadrous
@fancsiki I do not plan to close the project down. It's been received wonderfully and I love that the community is already jumping into planning the roadmap with me! https://trello.com/b/WZbLY594/da...
Joey Tawadrous
@fancsiki You're welcome buddy!
Andrew Brodsky
Thank you for doing this! As a a person who used Inbox all day long I needed a suitable replacement. I spread the word on Twitter for you! Good luck and keep innovating!
Joey Tawadrous
@andrewjb44 you and me both! It wasn’t just my email management client, it was also my todo list! I had grown so used to the interface that it would have been unproductive to switch! Thank you for spreading the positive vibes 😊
Harry Strick
I'm not sure why, but I got a promotional spam email from joeytawadrous@gmail.com about this - if you want us to give you access to our emails for your application why would you send spam from a personal email with no info on how you get our emails (for me, it was my personal one)
Joey Tawadrous
@gmail @harrystrick Harry, the only people I sent a mail to are my newsletter subscribers!
Harry Strick
@gmail @joey_tawadrous Oh I see now, I subscribed to AppLandr 3 years ago which now redirects to Darwin Mail, I'm pretty sure you can't send out a promotional email when it was acquired for a different service
Joey Tawadrous
@gmail @harrystrick I hope you unsubscribed as I cannot see any mention of your name in any email I sent! I'm sorry that I bothered you. I switched from Mailchimp to MailerLite a few years back as Mailchimp was so expensive and I guess I made a mess of something during the export/import of my lists. I've been sending regular emails though with good open and click rates, so you must have received a bunch! Why didn't you unsubscribe years ago when I moved mail clients?
Harry Strick
@gmail @joey_tawadrous Your emails were in my spam folder (as people have been flagging it as spam, as it is sent from a personal email, not a company email), I saw you on here + an email about this in my spam and wondered why I was receiving it.
Joey Tawadrous
@gmail @harrystrick Luckily, my emails are rarely marked as spam. I guess you did it a while back :)
Michael Schultz
I was hoping that some talented people would create something to use after Inbox. You even made it better, congrats! And thank you :)
Joey Tawadrous
@filterfreak words cannot express how kind you are and how much I appreciate your comment! I will continue to make Darwin better and better for you and for all 🙏
R. Fancsiki

Just tested it, I would say this is a beta going in the good direction, but still not ready for real life use. I don't know how to react to this. I would simply say I will be back with my money when it's ready, but then maybe the developer needs the money to complete it. I'll keep an eye on this.

Pros:

Finally something to replace Inbox!

Cons:

The snoozed and done labels are empty, this is a bug. The scroll is scrolling the view out of the viewport. An overall feeling of beta.

Brandt Krueger
Are the reminders integrated with Google reminders? I use Assistant all the time to create reminders, and one of Inbox's killer features was to pull those in and have them all right there
Joey Tawadrous
@brandt_krueger Hey Brandt! :) Thank you. I too use Google calendar quite a lot. To add the reminders I create in DarwinMail to Google calendar would be an amazing lift in productivity. I personally want this feature and will work on it sooner rather than later. You can see it in the roadmap here: https://www.darwinmail.app/feedb... Thank you for your suggestion.
William Wagmen
hey @joey_tawadrous Sounds great? How exactly would I share (Like could I just say check out Darwinmail on the r/inbox subreddit?) Also where would you send me the code?
Lachlan Kirkwood
Congrats on the launch, looking forward to integrating this into my workflow!
Joey Tawadrous
@lachlankirkwood Thank you very much, Lachlan :D Let me know if you have any comments or suggestions :)
Arnob Mukherjee
A big big congrats on the launch and the product looks absolutely sleek. @joey_tawadrous
Joey Tawadrous
@iamarnob6543 ahhh thank you so much, Arnob! It’s sole thanks to you that DarwinMail has such a beautiful logo for our launch 🚀🙏 I mean it is gorgeous man! Thank you for creating that logo for me and so quickly too 🤙 It’s brilliant 🔥
Maxi Gimenez
Nice work @joey_tawadrous! Awesome idea for all of us that miss Google Inbox!
Joey Tawadrous
@gmaxi_ Hey Maxi 👋 Thank you so much! The primary focus of Darwin Mail is to help you be your most productive. I'm sure the tool will evolve over time as users suggest new features & updates! I can't wait to see how it evolves over time! 💌
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Such a timely launch! Massive congrats! 🙌
Joey Tawadrous
@anthilemoon Thank you, Anne 😁 I really wanted to release sooner however I wanted to build more features to make sure DarwinMail was a product worth trying out 👨‍💻 So now we have features like dark mode, undo send and custom backgrounds that you can try out 🤓
Cruz
I miss inbox, and will definitely be giving this a try
Joey Tawadrous
@gcwelborn Thank you so much Cruz :) Please let me know if you have any feedback!
Graeme
congrats on the launch Joey!
Joey Tawadrous
@graeme_fulton Hey brother Graeme! ❤️ Thank you man. PS: Loving what you're doing with Letter and looking forward to trying it out!
Andreas Wagner

I like the app.

Pros:

Smart just like Inbox...

Cons:

Bundles would be nice

Joey Tawadrous
🚀 BUNDLES are LIVE on DarwinMail 💌 You asked for it and you got it! ⚡️ Some have called bundles 'The next evolution of email'. 😍 With DarwinMail, now you can use them too. 👉 https://www.darwinmail.app
Ferruccio Balestreri
Great Job Joey! Really good timing too :)
Joey Tawadrous
@frcbls 👋 hey buddy! Thank you so much 😊 I think so too. Although I’ve been using it for months 🤓 I hope you enjoy using Darwin Mail. Let me know if you have any feedback.
Sergio Mattei
Congrats on the launch, Joey!
Joey Tawadrous
@ftxrc thanks a million, Sergio 🤙 I hope that you like the features! If you have any suggestions for new functionality do please let me know 🚀
Gus Varela Raggio
Well done @joey_tawadrous!!! are you planing to allow other type email accounts?
Joey Tawadrous
@gusraggio Yes, absolutely! Thank you for asking. I'm currently working on the web app. With our Product Hunt release, our being on the front page of Hacker News, and all the suggestions and feedback coming in, I should have enough information to make DarwinMail extremely stable. After it has achieved this stability, I will add support for more email clients!