Fluent Email
Fluent looks like a great new email service, created by ex Googlers:
The three of us left Google to form Fluent out of a desire to create a communication product that is design-led, fast moving and — most importantly — pushes email into the future. A tool that accurately reflects how people communicate today and will adapt to what they want tomorrow.
They say their unique take on email is based on these principles:
- Simple conversations
- Streamlined workflow
- Access anywhere
- Beautiful design
- Seamless experience for desktops, small screens and touch devices
- Communicating in the best way possible
I’m not normally one that gets excited about the latest web app and cute-looking service, but check out the video. The email UI is, for once, different. It’s an uncluttered stream of messages stripped of all unnecessary information, focused on people, topics, and actions. Images can be viewed inline. Messages can be removed from the stream. It looks like Fluent wants to be a beautiful layer for email, a service built on top of it with the ultimate goal of making you more efficient by dealing with conversations and people rather than the usual burden of Gmail. It’s promising.
More importantly, it sounds like the developers aren’t afraid of charging for this and they have an actual plan to evolve the platform. I like developers with a business plan.
I look forward to giving Fluent a try, and see if it can improve my email workflow (I have a problem with it, just like everyone else). Also: this would look great on an iPad.