Ask HN: Review my app: http://moogroups.com - Instant mailing groups

[m0digital]

MooGroups is a service that gives you an instant mailing group. It aims to ease the headache of conversing in a large email thread where people are added and/or removed.

The idea was born while interacting with my intramural basketball team. We needed a poll of who was going to be at the game each week. One member created a "group" at one of the many group management sites just so we could send a message and use a poll. With MooGroups, there is no need to signup, no need to manage anything, and you still have access to bells and whistles like polls and attachment archiving.

Also, like with traditional email, MooGroups conversations are in a sense "disposable". You send out a group email about an event this weekend and after that, you forget about it. There's no reason to setup a traditional group contact such as in gmail just for a single email.

With the embedded polls, this extends the usage possibilities invites, opinion feedback, etc.

All feedback welcome!

Thanks -Steel

[icey]

I think it looks pretty cool. I don't have a group I need to set up right now, so it makes it a little tough to really give it a run through.

I'll definitely bookmark to check out later though.

[jaddison]

Sounds like some aspects of Google Wave. Interesting idea - make it big before Google Wave is released and takes off, or you might have trouble gaining traction. ;)

Good luck!

[m0digital]

Thanks!

Good Wave is definitely some exciting technology. I feel that MooGroups and Google Wave have some similar functionality but not a complete overlap. Perhaps even integrate with Google Wave in the future.

[growt]

That concept is somewhere in my personal idea list. Now I can cross it out. Well done :)

[m0digital]

Thanks!

[m0digital]

URL: http://moogroups.com

[pclark]

great name