People do not need this and will not leave their existing email clients because they simply do not see email as being 'stagnated'. It works and gets the job done.
There are lots of problems to fix around email, but a new inbox interface is not one of them.
My advice to you would be to go build on top of for example gmail. There are massive number of things that suck horribly. Yes, search is one of them.
Inbox navigation is another one, but keep in mind that there is a reason why the current line based inbox interfaces work.
The third one is attachments, but that is one I am already tackling with my new startup www.fileboard.com
http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/01/inbox2-one-inbox-and-commun...
And here is the desktop client which is now open-source: http://www.techshout.com/img/inbox2.jpg
People do not need this and will not leave their existing email clients because they simply do not see email as being 'stagnated'. It works and gets the job done.
There are lots of problems to fix around email, but a new inbox interface is not one of them.
My advice to you would be to go build on top of for example gmail. There are massive number of things that suck horribly. Yes, search is one of them.
Inbox navigation is another one, but keep in mind that there is a reason why the current line based inbox interfaces work.
The third one is attachments, but that is one I am already tackling with my new startup www.fileboard.com