Empowering Email

I like the idea, but I cannot imagine normals using it en masse. It seems so natural to those familiar with software engineering because it's basically a little language embedded into email conversations. For someone unfamiliar with computer science concepts like translation, languages, compilers, etc, it would be a formidable thing to learn and use.

This is a minor, surface-level thing and completely separate from the actual functionality of your app, but: when I read 'Mailcules', I think 'molecules', not 'Hercules.'

This type of thing went through a phase and then died out, much like dedicated messaging apps like Kik and Beluga.

I'm interested to see how this turns out if you pursue it. We actually applied to this past YC with a very similar concept. We got rejected, and were later convinced by a former YC founder that it was too much of a big change for most email users, so we pivoted.

A combo-app that translated that text into a visual todo list (or other mechanism) makes more sense for 90% of users. Sort of like integrations into a more robust email client. You know like Outlook, but modern.

We're looking for some comments on whether a service like this would be useful to you, and how you would use it. Thanks!

i believe remember the milk have similar idea, where you can email it something and it will create a task for you

In the age of Siri. Why should I type?