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Actually yea it is a bit much. Wow. And I ‘am’ European.

Nude sunbathing etc has been a feature of model railways for as long as I can remember.

All goes over you head until your 15 anyway. The adults chuckle knowingly and quietly, you don’t have to draw your children’s attention to it if you don’t want to.

And anyway, she’s probably just ‘kissing it better’ lol.

I am so keen to visit this attraction. Pecorama was just the tiniest bit of a disappointment!

+1/ YouTube is the worst rabbit hole on the internet. Hugely addictive and yet full of so much valuable content. Good work.

I like how you can have titles half way down the columns.

Well this has all the hallmarks of being very cool.

Straw poll on teams in our batch, yes they are 'raising successfully at demo day' roughly in line with previous batches. Far fewer in-person investor meetings as you would expect. Yet more Zoom calls of course.

This is a cool idea and an interesting insight. Glad to hear about what a 'normal' YC interview is like. Reminds me of amateur theatre, waiting in the wings to go on. YC could do the random '10 in a call' before the interviews, although I suppose there are thousands of people being interviewed.

Agree completely. One thing is for sure, I Zoom a lot less now! I guess the imperitive to build a strong company remains the same, there is just no substitute for going out into the world and meeting people.

Thanks so much :-) The pins will definitely do this. I didn't quite manage to get it to work ahead of the video but the idea is each pin is a link back to the message from where it was pinned.

I'd like the same to be true for the quote. So much easier than writing 'I'll reply in line' and the copy/pasting all the time.

You're so right. They would get hugely annoyed. Plum Mail isn't a messenger really, I mean sure you could use it as such but then you could use email like that too and cause just as many notifications.

We're planning daily digest emails to group together multiple messages with individual reply buttons.

Showed it and explained it to my gran and she seemed to get it just fine. This is a woman that couldn't understand why her iPad wasn't charging until I explained it did actually need plugging into the wall. lol.

I think anyone would get confused and irritated by some weird confusion over email and Plum Mail. I think the next step is to ship v1 and see how users get on with it. I'll try to remember to report back what we learn.

All good points. Plum Mail is B2C and HN is a well-informed technical audience it's probably fair to say. We felt we needed something less abstract than just a fruit in the name to explain what you do in this application - i.e. you write to people and they write back like when you send and receive mail (distinct from 'e'mail).

We toyed with using the word 'messenger' but that's much less representative of the longform way in which Plum Mail nudges you to write. Messengers are synchronous, one liner, emojis etc.

At least with the word mail in the name, anyone hearing about it for the first time can have a pretty good guess at what it does. The technicality of using the email address as the identifier and passwordless authentication etc is important (but probably only really interesting to a technical audience).

Thoughts?