After years of consulting for other people's startups, reading Hacker News, and being inspired by entrepreneurial Rubyists like DHH, James Golick, Marc-André Cournoyer, Peter Cooper, Jeremy McAnally, Indie Labs, Nate Talbott, and so many others, I finally got off my butt and launched a small startup tonight.
Presenting Email Without The Inbox:
Email Without The Inbox does exactly what it says on the tin, to use the British expression. You get email without an inbox. To be clear, I got the idea when I noticed how many freaking times I logged into Gmail to send somebody an e-mail about something and instead ended up completely distracted, with my concentration gone. Frequently, I would end up with my concentration so blown I forgot to send the e-mail that I had logged in to send in the first place. I'd have to log back in again to send the original mail - and more than once, I fell into the exact same trap and got too distracted to send it, for the second time.
That is no longer a problem for me - and it doesn't need to be a problem for you ever again, either. I can log in to Email Without The Inbox, send whatever mail I need to send whenever I need to send it, and still do the Tim Ferriss hyper-productivity thing of only checking e-mail twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening. Discover the rejuvenating focus and clarity that come from being organized and on-task, and say goodbye to the frazzled stress of perpetual distraction.
This is the second incarnation of this idea for me; the first was called Zero-Distraction Gmail and ran on my laptop as an inbox-less interface to Gmail. Email Without The Inbox works for anybody, not just Gmail users, and has a slightly fancier UI. "Slightly" is the operative word here - the site is minimal and determined to remain so. I am planning to add the ability to import your contacts, of course, as well as some JavaScript to make selecting contacts effortless, but I decided to launch without that feature so I could have the app live tonight.
Check it out! I'm very happy with it. It's awesome and it'll only get better.
