Kite

Read email newsletters outside your inbox

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Read email newsletters outside your inbox

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@alberto_santos awesome idea! My inbox REALLY needs it. So I've downloaded the app and been able to add some of my subscriptions to it. How can I add more or manage the list? I kind of lack the FAQ section on the website.

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9yr ago

Kite

Maker

@aleks_muse Thanks for trying it out! You can only subscribe to the newsletters we've curated. We built it like this so 1) there's no need for us to read your email messages and parse/import them and 2) we have control over the quality of newsletters and issues. The third tab on the iOS app is your subscription list and from there you can individually unsubscribe -- removing them from your reading list. We'll definitely add a FAQ section on the website. Thanks for the suggestion

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9yr ago

@alberto_santos Thanks, now it's more clear :) Are you planning to add more newsletter you are curating in the nearest future?

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9yr ago

Kite

Maker

@aleks_muse Absolutely! We'll be adding around 20 newsletters every week for the next couple months

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9yr ago

@alberto_santos awesome!

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9yr ago

@alberto_santos @aleks_muse Hi Alberto, I agree with your vision of curation but at my point of view you are solving two problems: find a great newsletter with quality content without traveling the web AND finally read my best newsletters in a dedicated application, so there are not stuck in my Gmail and never read them.

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9yr ago

Ever since Comma went dark (https://www.producthunt.com/post...), I've been looking for a replacement. I can't wait to play around with Kite. THANK YOU GUYS FOR BUILDING THIS. #lifesavers UPDATE: Will you consider scanning e-mail addresses for newsletters and allow us to integrate them into our reading list?

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9yr ago

Kite

Maker

@pe_feeds Thank you for trying it out! We've definitely considered it and that'll probably be available in the future. The main reason why it's not there in the first place is that it's pretty much just me and Fabio working on the project and handling personal messages requires a huge extra security layer -- better be safe than sorry. :-)

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9yr ago

@alberto_santos totally understandable! keep up the good work, guys.

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9yr ago

Kite

Maker

Hi everyone! Thanks to @bramk for hunting us, and to dozens of friends in the community who gave us feedback during our beta iterations and helped up build Kite. We receive dozens of awesome newsletters every week in our inbox, but we always found it hard to keep up with all of them. Newsletters would accumulate and we ended up either archiving a lot of issues that we really wanted to read, again and again, or “scheduling them to a later date”. That’s why we decided to build Kite. The newsletters you choose (we have a collection of 100+ hand picked publishers - and we’re adding 20/30 new ones every week) won’t show up in your inbox anymore. You’ll be notified and read about them in the Kite app. (We just store them in a folder. They are still being delivered to you!) Some details: 1. For now we only have Gmail signup (their API makes stuff like this *extremely* easy). Outlook and Facebook will be there on 2.0 -- in about a couple weeks. 2. We can't read anyone's email messages at all -- that's very important for us. All we can do is create and edit labels (so emails from those newsletters will go to a “Kite” folder in your inbox). Would love to hear your thoughts!

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9yr ago

@alberto_santos oh my gosh! This is amazing thank you! Finally I may be able to achieve inbox zero

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9yr ago

Kite

Maker

@tese_omesan That's great to hear!

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9yr ago

Prelaunch.com

@alberto_santos great idea!

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9yr ago

DoubleMemory

Although I get the urgency to reduce noise and clean up inbox, I don't get the value proposition of this and the other app that was launched here a couple months earlier. I've started unsubscribing my newsletters a few months back and resubscribe them through my RSS reader. Less tracking, more control. Do we really need a special tool for this? With that said, I could see value if there is an AI powered personal knowledge engine that will cluster similar news and links in my inbox or newsletters so I don't have to mentally filter out duplicate news from Node Weekly from Frontend Weekly. Just my 2c.

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9yr ago

Kite

Maker

@randomor I'd say that we definitely need a special tool for this. Not everyone is willing to do what you did and discovering and subscribing to great newsletters can be really boring, instead of just a tap away. We'll be giving users more control over the next few months -- importing your newsletters and making unsubscribe more accessible are our big concerns. Fabio and I talked about the long-term future and that's definitely one of our major goals. But well, really long-term. :-)

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9yr ago

We all may agree on that curated newsletter experience is not great fit for Inbox. We need something different, revolutionary as Slack did to email for specific job. Small improvements doesn't makes a sense and solves a problem as a whole. There are many dead startups around this problem which committed suicide not because people was not interested on this problem, but mostly because of the issues on the product/market matching. Whats more interesting is that all of the 'solutions' decided to show some improvements on user side, nor curator. To make it short. We have two sided markets - curators and its users. If we want build something valuable here, and really want to separate Inbox from curated newsletter, we have to do things for both markets. Users want a better way to get, manage and read curated newsletters, even consume it separated from email(Inbox). Curators want to get emails(for sponsored issues, content ads, banner ads and such). For me, main task is how to separate email from curated newsletters and build ads opportunities. End result of revolution looks like this: There is an App where - for users: *UI is standardized(like Medium standardized writing/blogging for mass market) *Subscribe/unsubscribe without email *Read later experience. - for curators *Tool to build/curate newsletter *Ads management/analytics - UI has opportunities for ads(sponsored issue, content ads, banner ads and such) **Email has its costs based on issue/user number, based on App those costs will be vanished and can be used better way. *** As for App revenues source, success fee (Google ads strategy) seems promising - while curators finding its sponsors separately or App provides for them ads, divide the X%of revenue from them. Growth strategy? *(hardest job) - Start small. Build start experience for 15-20 email newsletter for specific users, than expand. Cudos to Kite, If you want to talk more about growth PM me on Twitter @alberto_santos @fbwlm

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9yr ago

I've been trying to cobble together a similar tool for myself, so it's brilliant someone made it a simple service. I will be trying Kite for newsletters I want to read, and keep using Unroll for general commercial mail.

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9yr ago

Kite

Maker

@gerwitz That's the idea! I am glad you liked it.

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9yr ago

Cardlife

Yes! Thanks, guys! I've been looking for such product and even considered to make one by myself. This is great stuff. I like it. However, I would love to have an ability to at least suggest you a newsletter. I understand that you want to make it more secure and have control over quality. But I have tons of them and I need some control too :) Best of luck, guys!

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9yr ago

Kite

Maker

@tony_freed That's true -- I'll add a form to our website and suggest that users can use the “Send Feedback” button on the iOS app to do suggestions as well. Now about importing your newsletters, that's definitely coming in a future update (not so far away). Thanks for using it!

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9yr ago

Kite

Maker

@tony_freed Hey Tony, I just submitted version 1.3.0 to review. It includes an option to suggest a newsletter right from inside the settings screen; it should be available over the next few days. Thanks for the suggestion, enjoy!

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9yr ago

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