I call it marriage because in the past years we have practically built everything that there is to build in email space. But the entry of new devices such as tablets and smart phones into the market provides yet new opportunities for creating products around email. More on this in later posts but for now here is quick recap of what we have done till date.

1. Launch of Inbox2 app for Facebook - within the hour our servers overheated and we realized that we would need tons of money to support and scale the infrastructure to deliver this service for free. (around Oct 2009)

2. Launch of Inbox2 desktop - So instead we focused on the desktop a product which we could offer for free in order to gain traction in the market. More then 100k installs.  (Feb 2010)

3. Inbox2 web based email (no public launch) - Again we are not Google and could not offer this service for free.

For the past year we have been busy primarily with number 3 where a number of companies indicated interest in our next generation email back end technology. This may take forms of licensing our technology or partnering with some of the bigger companies.

Our desktop application, the only publicly available product still attracts a large number of users. In fact we owe an apology to a lot of these people for not having supported the application all the time. But continuous interest in desktop application is a affirmation of our vision on email and gives us great deal of encouragement. Inbox2 desktop application will remain free and development will continue with the help of the community. More on this on the upcoming post. But soon there will also be news on a new product that we have been working on.