Janko in a Jar

A year or so ago I wrote something a sort of an alternative to email system. Email was bordering to unuseful to me at that time. Main problem was spam. I canceled and changed all of my info@domain.com mails on my websites because I got 20-50 spam email on each of them and got into trouble with missed emails. That’s when I wrote tinyIMS.

Later I canceled almost all of them and started using gmail for everything. Gmail is really well made thing and problem with spam is not really a problem there so the initiative to push out tinyIMS became void.

Now I am looking at it again. I have the thing written and it works, but it’s still a little rough and I would have to test and debug it.

But it has a serious chicken and egg problem and I don’t see a substantial reason why anyone would use it if there is email. It has some benefits (and also limitations in current state) compared to email, but they are all of sorts that normal user doesn’t really care that much.. And I don’t know how to name it as tinyIMS doesn’t sound good to me any more…

I have to find some niche need or some sort of evil plan how to inject it into someones needs..

I will write about features and tech next time I write about this.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 at 2:47 am and is filed under Other stuff.