Instead of switching to Gmail I'd rather think about what exactly makes an email non-personal. For me, it's not about if the senders adress is "name@example.com" rather than "name@gmail.com" but rather what's written inside the mail. Mailgun etc. let you write just normal emails like you would do in gmail as well.
I think the annoying thing about those services is that they are mostly used for mass-mailing. It doesn't matter if you send the same email to thousands of people via gmail rather than anything else - it will still be a poorly customized email for the recipients.
I would suggest to take a look at owncloud (https://owncloud.com/).
They have clients for every device, are largely open source and have quite a few configuration options.
You can set them up on a server on the hosting provider of your trust or even on your raspberry pi.
If there is one thing the past 20 years have told us, it's that nothing persists but the thing you actually own.
- Medium rised but now partially closes it's platform
- Facebook started as the universal platform for everyone on the internet but ultimately failed to become an open platform for discussion
- MySpace once almost *was* the internet, until it was replaced by shinier new things (facebook, ...)
- And today the end of tumblr and many more foreseeable...
So start a blog, use your own domain and you'll be able to create something that lasts!
First of all: use your personal bondings you have to your home university. If you don't have any, look for people you know who can introduce you to university staff they know in person. Many people have/had jobs in university departments and know quite a bit about the people working there and can give you both insights and warm leads about the people they have worked with!
I would really like to use such a service, but my biggest concern is: Will this still exist in 5 years?
The export feature is a neat first step, but I simply don't want to have to think about ever needing to switch again.
I also appreciate that you've got a pricing page (too many startups ommit this!), it signals that you're trying to build a real thing. Do you have any plans on how to sustain in the long-term?
Good question! There are 2 reasons that you can count on SimpleLogin:
- The running cost is low enough for us to keep the service running almost "forever". Even when SimpleLogin doesn't earn enough money to pay our salaries (the biggest cost), we'll keep SimpleLogin running as a side-project as we and a lot of our family/friends use SimpleLogin.
- The code and hosting instructions are open so anyone could deploy SimpleLogin on their server and migrate all their aliases there. The migration is actually not too complex as it mostly consists of changing the DNS and re-import your existing aliases. Making sure that SimpleLogin can run on an inexpensive and simple server is part of our design rules since the beginning so you don't need complex infrastructure to deploy SimpleLogin for yourself.
> Do you have any plans on how to sustain in the long-term?
Our revenue comes mainly from the premium subscription. We are also considering to create products derived from SimpleLogin technology but targeted at business.
I still try to get away from safari, so many things keep not working how I want them to.
But I guess I'm just too locked in by using the keychain and nowadays apple pay.
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