This is really clean, and the onboarding is great. The UX here is really well done. I've seen (and used) a ton of really nice, free email clients pop up on PH over the past couple of years (CloudMagic/Newton, Polymail, Nylas) , though, which have gone on to charge upwards of $10/mo once they've established a userbase. What's your long-term plans for monetization? Do you have plans to charge users for the app? Create a suit of premium services (tracking, for example)? Are you going to be acquired by Salesforce in 6 months and make me go crawling back to the Gmail app?

Hello Product Hunt. We're so happy to be here, and thanks Garry for hunting us! We'll be answering questions today and are excited to hear your feedback, so ask away. We just launched Astro in Public Beta, on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Astro has everything you expect from intelligent, modern email apps, plus a chatbot that helps you declutter your inbox and focus on important messages. In fact, Astrobot is the first native email chat bot--this is what makes Astro really special. We started Astro because there's still room for improvement and untackled problems when communicating and collaborating, and we think artificial intelligence can help. The email apps we launched today are just the beginning... Here's what to expect when you download Astro: *Astrobot tells you what to unsubscribe from, what to archive, and who to make a VIP, as soon as you add an email address. *As you use Astro, Astrobot continues to provide suggestions to keep your inbox clean and make sure you don't miss anything important. And of course, Astrobot can help you with basic tasks and responds to 100s of questions. *Astro's available across devices, it was really important to us to launch with both mobile and desktop apps. This means a unified inbox, available on Mac, iPhone, and iPad for Gmail and Office 365 email addresses. *Next, we're bringing Astro to Android and Alexa. We'll be adding support for additional email services soon too. *Astro is packed with features: Snooze, Unsubscribe, Send Later, Follow-up Reminders, Mute, customizable notifications, email prioritization, and more. *Free for people and teams. We expect to launch a paid version for teams later this year, but the features available today will remain free for early users. Thanks for checking us out. We can't wait to hear what you think.

Astro was made by some true SV legends who have made some of the world’s best email software. They’re back at it with a clean easy to use email client built from the ground up that makes great use of AI, has fast search and all the modern features you would expect. I’m pretty psyched to make Astro my primary email client.

Thank you everyone for all the support and feedback! AI combined with smart app design can take us leaps forward in managing our work & personal communication. We're excited to be making these apps available for Mac & iOS, and soon for Android & Windows. We look forward to much more discussion & feedback!

Privacy - Effective as of March 3, 2017: What Information does Astro Collect? Information You Provide to Us We receive and store any information you knowingly provide to us. For example, through the registration process and/or through your Astro Account settings, we may collect Personal Information such as your name, email address, phone number, and third-party account credentials (for example, your log-in credentials for your existing email account). If you provide your third- party account credentials to us or otherwise sign in to the Services through a third party site or service, you understand some content and/or information in those accounts (“Third Party Account Information”) may be transmitted into your account with us, and that Third Party Account Information transmitted to our Services is covered by this Privacy Policy; for example, your emails, attachments and correspondence history stored in your existing email account will be provided to Astro when you create an Astro Account using your existing e-mail log-in credentials. Certain information may be required to register with us or to take advantage of some of our features. We may communicate with you if you’ve provided us the means to do so. For example, if you’ve given us your email address, we may email you about your use of the Services. Also, we may receive a confirmation when you open an email from us. This confirmation helps us make our communications with you more relevant and improve our services. If you do not want to receive communications from us, please indicate your preference by clicking on the unsubscribe option in our emails or contacting us at support@helloastro.com. Source: https://www.helloastro.com/privacy/

The interface looks nice and while I'm not yet convinced that AI can solve the information overload (having tried other email clients in the past) but willing to give it a go with Astro but without POP3/IMAP support it doesn't support 90% of my email needs... So, when will POP3/IMAP support arrive? :)

Very impressive. Well thought out onboarding, clean UI and makes use of the same shortcurts as Gmail.

Have been using for a month and Astro is SO fast and reliable. Big fan of team and product!

I've been on the private beta for a few weeks and can attest that the AI is surfacing just the email I care about to my Priority Inbox and leaving everything else for later. Definitely off to a promising start! Give it a try!

I'm so eager to use Astro to it's full potential, but unfortunately I have two other mail providers besides Gmail: Fastmail (primary mail) and Yandex (work mail). Is there a chance SMTP is coming soon?

Astro is one of my favorite Email App so far. Using since heard about them. Are you guys planning to add calendar? That can be awesome. Thank You.

Beautiful app! Any plans to add read receipts like Polymail?

Love Astro! I downloaded the Mac app a couple weeks back and found my productivity jump through the roof. Astrobot is AI that actually works. The VIP list, Tips and the chat interface to personalize my experience helped get to zero Inbox quickly. When used in a group/team setting, I can only imagine how effective it will be. Do you plan to integrate with other web and messaging services in the future as well?

I felt lied to. You asked for my email in the context of an on-boarding experience and then _after I'd given it_ told me I was signing up for a waiting list. Of course I was disappointed that I would have to wait but more importantly I felt deceived into giving my email. If the signup flow had been honest about the wait list I probably still would have given you my email but I would have had many fewer negative thoughts about the process.

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up, we're throttling new accounts right now during our in-app add account process. This is due to high demand (so thanks for your support). In the next hour or so we'll be allowing more new users into the app. Thanks for your patience! 😌

I've been a delighted user of Astro almost since launch. And now they have sold to Slack - and are immediately shutting down.

Can anyone recommend a good email/calendar client?

Pros:

It was awesome.

Cons:

It is gone.

How are you different to Notion?

Excited that try it out 👍🏼

Any chance to see a Windows version soon?

Been testing Astro for the past couple of months, feels like a spiritual successor of Mailbox (I don't drop that name lightly)