| There is always room for a new product if you provide value that established entities don't offer. Proton Mail for example built it's business around privacy. There is alot email is capable of that has been forgotten. 1. For example I am part of this mailing list that is like 30 years old. And it feels sort of like a small niche social network. There is alot of improvement that needs to be done in this space. 2. Alias generation. I really would like to subscribe to some news letters or place my email out in public but I don't want to do it with my real email for fear of being spammed. 3. Cataloguing & curating emails. It would be really nice if I could book mark different messages into different folders. 4. Read receipts. All email hosts claim to have this feature but I have actually failed to use them for every single service I am signed up to. 5. Make it easy to configure custom domain names. 6. Tagging doesn't work on Gmail's mobile app. It's so badly implemented on other services. 7. Have a good API why do I have to go to sendgrid? |
It's easy to unsubscribe from a shitty service or a newsletter, just delete the email and that's it.
They also have custom domain names, you do need to do the requisite DNS magic, but they give you step by step instructions where you just copy-paste stuff. And I think you can have them host the domain so they'll handle everything.
Fastmail labels ("tagging") works pretty well too, you just need to write the rules yourself, there is no fancy magic doing it automatically like Gmail.