Excellent blog post by Abdullah Atta of Notesnook on the sudden shutdown of Skiff, which has left its over two million users scrambling to find new email suite providers before Notion shuts down their accounts in six months:
This is one reason I feel more comfortable using default apps from major tech companies and relatively large, well-established developers. I know there are no guarantees, as large tech companies sometimes deprecate apps; I’m looking at you, Google. Nevertheless, my risk is considerably less than using apps from VC-funded and small developers.
I see that you have consistently say this and I have incorporated some of my choices based on that. Its a wise way to think, will this exist in 5 years.
When it comes to VC ware, I’m not so worried about using Raycast. It’s just a launcher, I could easily switch to Alfred or just use Spotlight, and the combination of paid AI and features for dev teams seem like viable ways for them to monetize.
But I’m feeling uneasy about where the Arc browser is going.
Yes there are tools / service that if they were too go away lets say tomorrow, You can replace them with little pain but note taking, email, reminders, pkm need to have a long term thinking approach.
You are our customer, not our product – Fastmail works to serve you, not advertisers or anyone else. Your money gets you a solid product and all our focus and attention.
Apple Mail is an email client, not an email provider.
Think of Fastmail like you would Gmail or Hotmail, it’s where the actual emails are sent to. You can have a Fastmail email account and read your emails in Apple Mail.
I don’t think Fastmail is comparable to Skiff as it’s based in one of the Five Eyes countries so anyone who may have used Skiff for privacy and security is probably not going to move over to Fastmail.
I am not sure there is anything to enjoy about an email service itself, it either works for you or doesn’t. iCloud mail is fine, but its spam filtering is weak to bad. It will block legitimate email it thinks is spam and there isn’t a way to tell it so, because you will never get it.
I get that most people won’t have any issues, but it is definitely an issue I have seen multiple times over years. Also, that is why I moved to Fastmail.
As far as the email client, I like it too. Except how it won’t autodelete blocked senders ion Mac or how I have anywhere between 0 and 10 flagged emails depending on what device I am using.
Maybe. But the extra money for 1Password isn’t worth it to me for a utility I typically spend less than a minute at a time using. They both appear to be equally secure and they’re both electron apps.
Sequoia Capital, the backers of Skiff, lost $150 million in the shutdown of FTX. They are just poor innocents who are easily conned by a guy who plays video games while talking to them, in a clever ploy to win their naive trust.
(For those who haven’t seen it, Google “SBF” and “Sequoia Profile” and find one of the stories about their now-deleted profile of him…it’s a sound reminder of how much the “smart people” often haven’t got the slightest clue.)