I'm a big fan of Xobni (the company), but a couple of the points in this article bugged me:<p>1. There's not clear evidence yet that they've landed on the "killer app". Yes, it's likely more killer (killerer?) than what they started with, but it's too early too tell. Lots of things <i>seem</i> like the killer app, but few are. They may have a couple of iterations left before they hit the true killer app.<p>2. One of the the stated reasons for not supporting GMail yet is that "Outlook users are more likely to have business credit cards". Although that's true, my guess is that there are enough users on GMail that also have credit cards for it to be interesting.<p>On the other hand, the "are you happy" box is cool.
This is just silly. I install xobni, and just like the comments on that site, after a couple of days I was thinking - huh? What does this app do? And how come it swallows so much of my screen real estate.<p>There is space for an outlook plugin, but xobni have just picked a weak product and are getting it installed by effective marketing.<p>Let me make this clear guys: Your product does nothing. It's not useful to me. It's not killer, it's very weak.
I think these guys will make money, but not as much as the 20m they just turn down.<p>In a year these features will be developed in every email client.
I like and have always congratulated Xobni ( <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6477" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6477</a> ) but I don't think the product is killer yet (though they might be referring to the stuff they have in development that they can't show to anybody yet.)