Why email startups fail

Posted by skeptrune 7/1/2025

Why email startups fail(forwardemail.net)

141 points | 133 commentspage 4

emrah 7/2/2025|

That's crazy, is it really that hard? 37Signals can apparently do it and they are a tiny shop

croisillon 7/1/2025||

I fell in love with Zenbe back in 2009 and i’m still angry at Facebook for acquishutting them down in 2010

scarface_74 7/1/2025||

> The Acquisition-to-Shutdown Pipeline

For the founders and their investors, that’s nut a bug it’s a feature

AbstractH24 7/1/2025|

My heart goes out to those founders.

I think they need one of those star studded benefit concerts for them (oh, wait. It just occurred in Venice last weekend)

patchtopic 7/1/2025||

compared to other businesses this number seems OK :-)

personjerry 7/1/2025||

Pretty sure this is AI written, hence the inconsistencies mentioned in this comment section.

AbstractH24 7/1/2025||

Yet somehow ranked on this site, made it to my inbox, and was intriguing enfough for me to read until they end. Something that’s maybe true for 5% of the articles I get sent (which composes the top 30 HN articles of the previous 24 hours).

There’s a perverse lesson there.

mike_hearn 7/1/2025|||

It definitely is. Click the links that go to HN comments, in the section about how the community is right. Not one of them is anything to do with email.

tomas789 7/1/2025||

Yes. I’d rather read the prompt than this.

AbstractH24 7/1/2025||

This article makes some interesting points, but is clearly click bait (and written, gasp, a email company)

How is this different than startups in any other space? How do you define success?

Also, SaneBox has been around for a lot longer than they mentioned. And their criticism is it’s not revolutionary enfough?

0x445442 7/1/2025||

While it may be true most email startups fail, rolling over and saying the UI has been solved is a bit defeatist IMO. Does the author even know about hey.com?

throwaway843 7/1/2025||

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jpmi1 7/1/2025||

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fwdemail 7/1/2025|

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