Today I have some bittersweet news to share — I am leaving Nylas, the email startup I co-founded and have been running for the past several years. It’s hard to believe how far we’ve come. The idea for Nylas was born from my personal frustrations with the world of email…

Today we are launching a big update to Nylas Mail— our flagship open source desktop email app. New in Nylas Mail: Support for Windows & Ubuntu Linux (finally — phew!) Snoozing Send Later Reminders Huge performance, stability, and security improvements Read on for details or just download the latest release! 🚀 Today’s 2.0 release includes free use of many requested power features such as thread snoozing, send…

A couple years ago I was invited to a small dinner in SF and ended up sitting next to an early engineer at SpaceX. I had been (and still am) astonished what SpaceX had accomplished so quickly, so throughout the evening I tried to get the inside scoop: What made…

Introducing Nylas Basic and 20x faster sync performance — Hey folks! Michael here, co-founder and CEO of Nylas. Today I’ve got some exciting news to share with you: 💅 Nylas N1 has been renamed Nylas Mail and has a new icon. 🆕 Today we are launching a free version of Nylas Mail called Nylas Basic. ⚡ We rebuilt…

Reports on the death of email are greatly exaggerated. — The obituary for email seems to rear its head every year or so. Articles that proclaim the death of something popular always seem to get clicks, and dozens of startups each year promise to be “email killers.” 2016: “Everything must meet its maker, and for email, that time is nigh”…

We are entering the post-SaaS era of enterprise software. The next generation of products will be driven by one thing: data. — Before the PC debuted in the mid 1970s, all software was enterprise software. Computers were expensive. Only corporations could afford them, and those that owned a machine wanted to use it all the time to justify the cost. Early enterprise software packages were designed for automation. They focused on simple…

or “How to make software wrapped in plastic” — In December 2012, the following was sent to an email discussion list I’m on: Hardware is going to become as easy to do as software. The tools are dropping in price. Manufacturing is becoming cheaper. Techshop and makerspaces are your local prototype labs, but there aren’t (many) local factories that…