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Notion acquires Skiff, what next?

Gaurav
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I really loved the custom domain feature on Skiff email, until today when I tried to register another account for a subdomain but was greeted with the shutdown notice. Now, users have 6 months to migrate their data from Skiff to somewhere else. The only quick and cheap solution I could find was to use Cloudflare's email routing feature to forward emails from my apex domain and subdomains to Gmail. I don't think Notion has any plans to introduce the email functionality that Skiff offered, and if they did, it would most likely not be free. Here's the official announcement: Skiff Joins Notion. Long live Skiff. Do you know of any other similar service that is not too heavy on the wallet?

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André J
I think skiff struggled with PMF. Notion probably acquired it for the talent working at skiff, and some of its privacy tech, so notion could implement some of the privacy tech into their own product. All speculation here of course. But having followed both products for a while that's how I judge it.
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Gaurav
@sentry_co What attracted me to Skiff was its end-to-end encryption and the fact that it was completely open-source. If Notion were to implement this privacy technology into their own product, I highly doubt they would open-source it.
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André J
@zignis Proton-mail is pretty gd. Thing with e2ee is that it only works if both use an email provider that supports it. So 98% of your email end up being unencrypted and parsed by google ad network etc. (I think!?!?)
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André J
As for custom domains. Google also offer that. Our team uses google with custom domain. So we can mange it in the gmail app. I think hey.com and superhuman also offers this. We will probably migrate to superhuman soon. Google is just a bit over the top on complexity these days. Also had a really bad experience with google customer support, where they treated to kick us out after 4 years of being loyal paying customers, marking us as potential "scammers" because the company card didn't 100% match the admin name 🙄 had to send 20 emails all over the place to sort it out. Imagine losing your mail, and all you get is auto reply and dead end customer support, because of some rampant fraud AI bot google probably deployed flagged you. So. Im cautious when picking sticky products now. Some of these big companies are horrible with customer support. Some of the smaller shops are easier to work with because they have more too lose if they get a bad rep etc.
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Gaurav
@sentry_co Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look into superhuman, Google is always my last choice for most of the things anyways.
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