Shortwave - Email smarter & faster with a reinvented Gmail experience

Hey PH 👋 - I’m Andrew, co-founder of Shortwave. I'm super excited to share Shortwave’s launch with you all today. Shortwave is a brand new experience for your Gmail account that helps you email smarter and faster, so you can not only be more productive, but actually enjoy your inbox. Our journey started two years ago. In 2020, a team of ex-Firebasers/Googlers and I started building Shortwave from scratch. Over the last two years, we’ve talked to hundreds of users about their email habits and have been working hard to make email live up to its full potential. Shortwave's inbox has a workflow that actually works: 📌 Pin urgent emails to the top of your inbox in one click ⏰ Snooze emails that you need to act on later ✅ Mark everything else done with a single click 👋 Drag and drop threads to re-order and group them Our secret weapon is called "bundles". They automatically group related emails and let you act on them all at once. Old calendar notifications? Gone. Asana updates? Bam. Newsletters? Oh wait, you *do* want those: snooze the whole bundle until your flight with one tap. Shortwave is more than just a new inbox: 🪞 Bring clarity to complex threads - with a compact, chat-like thread UI ✨ Write beautiful emails - with markdown formatting, mentions, Giphy, rich media, quoting, object forwards, and more. 🤝 Work together with your team - and collaborate in realtime with channels 🧠 Email smarter, not just faster - with intuitive shortcuts and an inbox that keeps you organized by default. 🧑‍🎨 Beautiful & consistent display - We wrote a custom headless browser engine to ensure your emails aren’t a jumbled mess of HTML & inline CSS 👯 Team features - Like Slack, but with the whole world via email. Channels, mentions, typing indicators, presence, and more. Free plan, premium experience! We believe *everyone* should have access to a high-quality, convenient, and delightful way to communicate — that's why Shortwave has a generous free plan for individuals and small teams. We also are providing a promo code for the Product Hunt community that gives you 3 months free on our paid plans: PHLAUNCH We had a lot of fun building Shortwave, and we hope you enjoy your new inbox! To get started with Shortwave, all you have to do is sign in with your Gmail account (no credit card required) or check out our quickstart guide (https://www.shortwave.com/docs/g...) to learn more. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for your support ❤️ @_seltenreich and I will be here all day to read your notes and answer questions, so ask away!

Beta tester here. I've been using Shortwave full-time for the last year and I'm not going back to my old mail client. Shortwave helps me keep my inbox organized and it formats email threads in a nice, chat-like way. Highly recommended!

I love this !!! I just tried it out and it looks much better than superhuman if you ask me

I got to alpha/beta test Shortwave. It's definitely the best email experience I've had - my whole team uses it, and it's not only replaced Gmail for us but also Slack. I've been eager for it to launch so I can tell my friends about it! 😃

I've only been beta testing Shortwave for two weeks and I can already feel my stress levels lowering when I need to get into email. It's snappy and well organized. It looks like the features are minimal, but that's due to the great design. This app is a powerhouse!

I use Shortwave and I love it. I'm super persnickety about email clients — I feel like I've tried all of them! — and Shortwave just works for me. I've never moved through my email quicker and with more confidence.

I miss Google Inbox too!

I've really enjoyed beta testing Shortwave, it's now my regular email client!

Shortwave is the future of email. I started using it during alpha, and I am continually impressed at how well it works, and how they are removing friction from the email experience. Excited to be on board for the future!

It was a wonderful moment when we got onto the Shortwave alpha and I got to close the Gmail and Slack tabs forever. Now everything's in one spot and the quality of conversation is higher than the one-liners Slack tends to encourage, but at the same time more interactive and off-the-cuff than traditional email threads. Sprinkle in a bit of Integromat magic to make up for the missing Slack integrations and we've got ourselves a system that I don't see us giving up any time soon.

I spent a long time looking for an alternative to Google Inbox and Shortwave solved most of the problems I had with Gmail! I highly recommend!!!

I discovered Shortwave through a Twitter thread about Quill.chat users discussing the company being sold to Twitter (that's a different story for another time). Reached out to @startupandrew on getting an invite to give Shortwave a spin, and a few months later, I've never bothered using other email clients for personal use. They certainly have their users in mind. Sorting, pinning important emails, ultra-fast search, and getting to inbox zero on the fly? This stuff should be illegal. Congratulations, Andrew and the Shortwave team. I've been looking forward to this launch day and I'm genuinely happy you guys are finally here. Woot! 🎉

I've tried countless email clients ever since Google shut down Inbox. I discovered Shortwave a few months ago and it checks all the boxes for me. It's the only client that logically groups my emails and allows me to read them inline and easily stay at Inbox Zero. Congrats on the launch team! Can't wait to see what you do with it

Thanks a lot first for the idea and second for the work @startupandrew, I've installed it and I like the concept. Nice product.

I got an early demo of Shortwave by @startupandrew a ~year ago. They clearly put a ton of attention on the details and nuances of email workflows. I'm curious, what's been the biggest surprise so far, Andrew?

Congratulations!!!! 🥳😁🎉

It makes my life much easier. Lookout, er, Outlook doesn't cut it. Gmail web access and phone app just presents me the email pile. Shortwave tames it so I can quickly triage my email with the benefit of easily applying "rules" to fight the mess. Every now and then I go into gmail proper to do some setting thingee, and I cringe. I scamper back to Shortwave as quickly as possible. Thank you Shortwave team!!!!

Congrats on the launch!

I really like this. Very clean and very minimal with intuitively well-thought out features and zero bloat. After only a very short time, this might be right up there with Hey.com for me, which is a massive compliment to the team behind this! 🙃

I've been using it for along time and I love it. Excited to get scheduled bundles and the trash action :D