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Tempo - The email client that helps you focus

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Tempo is the minimalist email client that helps you build healthier habits. Take control of your time and do your best work – inside and outside your inbox.

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Conner Charlebois
This looks great! Which email services does it support? Can I use this for both Gmail and Exchange email accounts?
Sebastian Stockmarr
@connerc Gmail and Google Apps only for now. We're looking expanding.
Florian
Nice design & concept. But 15$ a month is way too much...
Derreck Amboyan
Is there any plan to add O365 versus only Gmail?
Sebastian Stockmarr
@derreckamboyan Yeah, after mobile it's the next big thing for us.
baijie
1. When are you going to add other email providers? 2. It would be really nice if you could add another shortcut for moving emails into folders (Put the button on the main screen, and ad a hotkey.
Sebastian Stockmarr
@michaelbai We're working on mobile right now, and have it on list as the next big thing after that. To your second point: yes, good idea with the shortcut, we'll add it asap.
Roman Onischuk
@stockmarr Good Job! I have a few questions: 1) How you validate your email base and customer email base? Could you please test a proofy.io (https://www.producthunt.com/post...) for these tasks? 2) what you're different between your competitors?
Santi Román
I have been using tempo since 3 days ago. I has become my email client by default. The former was Spark that is also great. I have try many email client like gmail and Tempo looks greats. Let me share some insights: Design and interaction are great. You have to get used to a new concept like the "workspace" but it's a great idea to get focus. - Quick reply are great. I miss the possibility to add files. Some response is just a file attached. - I have 6 accounts connected to Tempo. I would like to be able to distinguish each mail / account with some color. Maybe a point like unread. Definitely design is super. Now the question is: it's worth 15$? I do not think so. Firstly I think superhuman has open the space for people willing to pay for email client. Sure the market is huge taking into account that we spent a lot of time in email. I also think Tempo has to put a price on theirs product but subscription is not the model that fits this category. For the maker is very appealing having a recurring cash flow like being netflix or spotify, but products or services are totally different. With email client every month you are having more or less the same product (I now more features will be added but does not make the difference) while in Netflix you have thousand of hours of new great content. In Netflix you pay for new things not to see Stranger Things 1 again. So I thing subscription is not a great decision from a financial and strategic point of view. I know plenty of people that after using superhuman during few months stop paying (and using) for it. So engagement is a great challenge. Do not forget that there are plenty of good free alternatives out there. Superhuman could do great because is a signal status product made from SV for SV guys. And now it's has a lot of hype, but hype eventually passes. Concluding, I definitely would pay 50€ for a great email client like tempo, but not a 15$ monthly fee. I would like to continue using Tempo but if not I will come back to Spark that as I said is also great. Thanks an congrats for Tempo. PD: There is a bug in signatures, It's no possible to name more than 1.
Ed Long
Looks beautiful - but please support GMail single-key shortcuts for navigation and quick archiving!
Sebastian Stockmarr
@ed_long Coming super soon – stay tuned!
Ed Long
@stockmarr Excellent - glad to hear that, it's a baseline need for me for any desktop email client (though I'm persevering with the Tempo beta for now as the focus mode for triage is great). Also notice no keyboard shortcuts seem to work unless you're in focus mode. Also find the colourful "Play" buttons a little too bright against the otherwise very minimal design.
Casper Holm
can I just ask, when you say "Exclusively support for Gmail & Google Apps." does that mean I'm not able to use my imap account on this client? So your privacy focus is based on Google pass through? oxymoron I would say. But looks really cool, not that I would spend 15 bucks every month for it, but email clients really need som carefull development... so thanks for the effort!
Casper Holm
Now I've tried it.. Love it. Sorry that gmail makes this a no go for me 😔
Sebastian Stockmarr
@casper_holm Thanks for giving it a shot Casper. We're working on a wider support. Gmail's API is beyond comparison and we need the most flexible environment to experiment within. We'll value privacy. Within the Google ecosystem we do all we can and will continue to do so with the other platforms we'll be supporting.
Casper Holm
@stockmarr Allrigth.. Keep up the good work and I'll keep and eye out for your progress 👍
Robin Sandborg
I really like the direction of this, but the value prop is not quite complete at $15/m in my opinion. For that kind of money I would like to be able to use multiple accounts from different providers (Outlook, Gmail, Tutanota, etc) and maybe even a complete email solution that I can connect to my domain and not have to use Google or Microsoft infrastructure at all.