All-hands Team Memo March 2024
A small window into our vision, challenges, strategies, and roadmap. Written by our CEO.
Blog
Our journey
The Things We Did Not Do While Reaching $2M ARR
This is not a list of things you should not do; it's simply a collection of things we did not.
On Being a Tiny Team and the One Thing We Can't Scale
I was right, we grew to $2M ARR without sacrificing quality to our customers.
How We Bootstrapped a $1M ARR Email Client
Five years ago, we launched Missive, an innovative but somewhat hard-to-define email client to the world. Fast-forward to last week when we reached **US$1M** in annual recurring revenue (ARR). This is the story of how we did it.
The Life and Death of Email Read Tracking
We removed the read receipts feature in Missive. Here’s why.
We Ditched Google Analytics for Good
How to run analytics without a consent banner?
Newton Users, You Should Probably Not Use Missive.
Even though Missive does offer most of Newton's features, there are a few strong reasons why some of Newton’s users shouldn’t migrate to our app. Read all about these reasons in this blog post.
The Changelog
An Alternative Tool for Growing your Business
A Special Team Retreat.
Overlooking the St. Lawrence River
Work Retreat - Italy
We went on a week-long work retreat in Italy.
Posted on Medium by Tristan
A Digital Product Design Process: 2 Years in the Making
Tristan goes over the whole process of designing Missive.
Posted on Medium by Philippe
The Morning Hunt
We relauched on Product Hunt, and while doing so we created a small web app to help you do so, thehuntchecklist.com.
Posted on Medium by Rafael
Building the Team Communication App of the Future
What started out as a collaborative email client may turn out to be more than we expected…
Posted on Medium by Philippe
Successfully Bootstrapped a Product, Then What?
Philippe explains how we manage our time between our other profitable products and Missive.
Team Retreat in Charlevoix
How breaking the routine is a great way to boost your team focus
A Brief History of Email Apps
The timeline of all the different email apps through time.
