What Are We Working on Now?
January 26th, 2009 by Peter Stern · comments · http://blog.zenbe.com/ddvgsBefore the public release of our Beta free email service last spring, we debated the path Zenbe should take first. Should we offer a free webmail service for consumers, or a paid subscription service for businesses?
As a reader of this blog, you know which path we chose first.
After our last major release in November, we have been working hard on the other path. Zenbe for Business will be open for business in February. You can point your domain’s email and use it with Zenbe, or create a subdomain like cornerdeli.zenbe.com. It will offer many of the advantages of Zenbe Personal (the free service you use now). Zenbe for Business will perform better, and have some great new features as well, including our new take on collaboration.
Of course we are going to keep offering and maintaining Zenbe Personal. We hope to push a new release out over the next couple of months, packed with enhancements and improvements. So stay tuned!
January 27th, 2009 at 12:25 am
Awww man, i hope we can still get the same features the paid members get
January 27th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Thanks for the update! It’s nice to know that improvements to this already wonderful email service are being worked on
What you also have to improve dramatically is listening to your users. I mean, many of us feel kind of abandoned, there aren’t many official response to forum posts, IMAP/POP isn’t working 100% yet, etc. I don’t think business users will run your door in as long as so many problems for personal users aren fixed.
There’s so much good ideas in Zenbe, please keep it up!
January 27th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
I’m looking forward to finding out how much it’ll cost to get a Zenbe that works better.
I’ve enjoyed the Zen aspects of Zenbe. The way the site looks, the cool way it functions, the vision that seems to guide the development of this site that has made it a very interesting case study to watch and participate in. I always shook my head at user suggestions that seemed to want to turn Zenbe into Gmail or even worse, Yahoo Mail.
I was hoping that your business model was to add in advertising to the free site, and give us the chance to pay for an ad-free personal experience. Since you’ve decided to put your best work into a business site, hopefully those of us early adopters who have shown patience and support will not be left to play in the ruins.
That wouldn’t be very Zen.
February 3rd, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Please make it so (in free version) that we can Tag and Move items out of our Sent Box (as available now in the “In” Box). My Sent Box (and some other users’) is getting very very crammed.
Thanks.
February 4th, 2009 at 6:48 am
Hi, I’m not very happy with the service at zenbe, and wanted to know who I can contact? I have sent 3 email messages and posted forum questions and no reply.. please can someone help as zenbe looked really nice to use but are rubbish at helping stuck newbies!! i’ve spent ages oin the forum too with no result!
February 4th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
I think it’s funny that all the replies to your ‘paid service’ post are feature requests who don’t want to pay for it.
It will be interesting to see how you monetize. GoogleApps gives you webmail on your domain and it’s free.
I’m still bothered by how badly Zenbe has been running on Safari for Windows and Chrome the last month or so. It really is making me consider Google.
I don’t know how you broke it. It worked great for a year before now.
February 8th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
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