I’ve been working on Outpost (https://www.teamoutpost.com) for a couple of years now - it’s a shared inbox tool for teams that manage email addresses like info@, sales@, or support@. It has collaborative features like assignments, notes, saved template responses, etc.
We launched it as an MVP in 2018 and started getting great feedback from users about how to make it better. A couple weeks ago we hit a huge milestone: we got our companion mobile app approved in the App Store.
I work on the marketing team, and it’s been a really rewarding journey working with our smaller team of developers to build a tool like this that can compete with other tools in the market. We’ve spent a lot of time talking to our users and developing features based on their requests.
Outpost is a web app that syncs directly with Gmail or Office 365 via IMAP, and connects to other mail providers via forwarding and SMTP. If users don’t have a mail provider, we also provide free email hosting.
We built the iOS app earlier this year, and are working on the Android version right now. We weren’t really sure what to expect when submitting the mobile app to the App Store, especially given some other product’s recent experiences, but we were able to get approved in about a week. That was a huge relief, and we’re really excited to keep moving forward.
I’m happy to answer your questions, or you can check it out for free and let me know what you think of it. Thanks for taking a look!
It looks like a nice product, but I was not able to try it out due to accessibility issues.
Many of the controls are labeled in such a way that my browser does not see them as clickable widgets. For example, the three dropdown selectors in the top left are not hinted. This is because they are built out of <div> elements, a big accessibility no-no. See here for more details:
Also, in the console I'm seeing one 500 status code from your own API (https://api.outpost.co/api/v1/super-admin/check) and several requests to tracker services, something I wouldn't want on a corporate app.
As a no-mouse user, I had to resort to dragging the pointer cursor around with mousekeys several times just to get past signup. I would not be able to use your app on a regular basis.
I’ve been working on Outpost (https://www.teamoutpost.com) for a couple of years now - it’s a shared inbox tool for teams that manage email addresses like info@, sales@, or support@. It has collaborative features like assignments, notes, saved template responses, etc.
We launched it as an MVP in 2018 and started getting great feedback from users about how to make it better. A couple weeks ago we hit a huge milestone: we got our companion mobile app approved in the App Store.
I work on the marketing team, and it’s been a really rewarding journey working with our smaller team of developers to build a tool like this that can compete with other tools in the market. We’ve spent a lot of time talking to our users and developing features based on their requests.
Outpost is a web app that syncs directly with Gmail or Office 365 via IMAP, and connects to other mail providers via forwarding and SMTP. If users don’t have a mail provider, we also provide free email hosting.
We built the iOS app earlier this year, and are working on the Android version right now. We weren’t really sure what to expect when submitting the mobile app to the App Store, especially given some other product’s recent experiences, but we were able to get approved in about a week. That was a huge relief, and we’re really excited to keep moving forward.
I’m happy to answer your questions, or you can check it out for free and let me know what you think of it. Thanks for taking a look!