Werksmailchic web-based email for small teams

werkhaus milano /werksmail.com

2433 Unread Emails Is An Opportunity For An Entrepreneur

Small businesses need to manage email effectively

Two Great Ideas:

• What if your highrise/basecamp account could talk to your inbox?

• What if your inbox could talk to your boss's inbox, so everyone know what's going on?

current state

No data portabilty!• There's no email service that provides a convenient api for external services.

• Practically impossible for your other applications to mine your inbox.

Your inbox is asocial!• Bill e-mails Fred and Mary. Fred decides Bob should be in on the conversation too, so he replies and CCs Bob.

• Mary replies to the first e-mail and Bob misses out on her reply.

• Then Fred doesn’t want to take part anymore, but still keeps getting everybodys’ replies and can’t opt out.

• Later there’s an argument about who said what and who got it, and people have to trawl through badly formatted quotes at the bottom of old e-mails to work out what actually happened.

This is where we come in!

How we do it• every member of your team gets an email account @company.werksmail.com

• add a domain name to get aliases like @company.com

• assign/share emails with someone else in your team

• comments/notes on an email are visible to everyone

How we do it• REST api that exposes your messages to external services

• Third party apps can now mine your inbox!

Try it! It's great!

Werksmail.com

Monthly subscriptions 7-10 $ per user

Competition

Google apps, Mailroom, Relenta and potentially Google wave

Strenghts• Specifically geared towards small businesses

• Designed to have an API => an ecosystem would develop (difficult to replicate by competitors)

• Easy to adopt

To-dos before launch• Add support for external email accounts

• Migrations from gmail/other imap accounts

• Speak IMAP!