[chevman]

What's left to conquer in email land?

Most of the large marketing ecommerce/enterprise market was captured via ExactTarget/Salesforce, Oracle/Responsys/Eloqua, IBM/SilverPop/Acoustic, Adobe/Neolane/Marketo by the mid 2010's.

SendGrid/Twilio was another a few years later, Amazon SES is ok, then you have some of the smaller market players (MailChimp, Constant Contact, etc).

Hard to scale/grow a startup in any real way when there are so many fairly well entrenched solutions across industries and company sizes.

[AbstractH24]

Turning your email newsletter into structured data. A db of events you get emailed, articles you should read, discounted to review, etc

Something I’d die for someone to tackle.

[turnsout]

There’s still a huge opportunity for AI. The way it’s used currently (sorting & drafting replies) is barely scratching the surface. Until you can literally turn your mailbox over to AI the way you would with a human assistant, email UX is not a solved problem.

[yard2010]

I'm far from an expert but I would say there will always be people who hate the current enshitified solutions and are looking for the new cool kid in town