The team behind Front, a shared email inbox startup, writes about launching products, SaaS pricing, beta signups and the future of email.
HN commenters link it for startup launch advice, such as comparing Show HN, TechCrunch and Product Hunt, and for its argument that email will last.
well then I suppose you have a facebook and have blocked all those annoying email from facebook warning you about what's happening on facebook which is a dead giveaway that facebook understand that email is where the action is/was/will be.
Try surveying an inbox of those who do not use facebook. Chances are you'll get quite a different picture.
You can also have a look at those:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/why-email-will-never-die/375973/?single_page=true
http://blog.frontapp.com/email-will-last-forever (seems to be down at the moment, try the wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20150331054046/http://blog.frontapp.com/email-will-last-forever )
We blogged about our launch: http://blog.frontapp.com/hacker-news-techcrunch-and-product-hunt-which-is-most-effective-to-launch-your-product-2/
Following our TC launch, we were featured in other channels, which gave us more signups. 300 might not seem like a lot, but these figures are very conservative and we only counted users that really tried the app.
I'm in your situation but my MVP is not done yet, now what you do is get interesting users, learn how they use it and then maybe add some features.
Read : http://blog.frontapp.com/leveraging-twitter-to-find-beta-testers-a-real-use-case-with-mention/
Oh, just wrote an article about the lessons we learned from that: http://blog.frontapp.com/lessons-from-facebook-stopping-its-e-mail-service/
Probably Front
http://blog.frontapp.com/email-will-last-forever/