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The EmailToFuture journey

Every chapter from our Reddit announcements — what shipped, why we decided it, and how the community reacted.

r/EmailToFuture
  1. Latest

    Free premium credits for contributors

    Before premium went live, contributors could request promo codes — a thank-you for building this with us.

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  2. Mobile app pre-registration is live

    App Store and Play Store pre-registration opened as the mobile app neared launch.

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  3. Mobile nav A/B: which style felt better

    Asked the community to choose between two bottom-navigation and capsule-action styles for mobile.

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  4. Upcoming pricing: credits, what stays free, community reaction

    Shared the proposed premium credit model — and the community largely called it fair.

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  5. Choosing duration presets

    Follow-up on duration mode: which presets people actually want on the scheduler.

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  6. Poll results: personalization instead of a single default

    Date vs duration landed ~50/50 — so I chose a personalization setting for each user’s default scheduling mode.

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  7. Poll: schedule by date or by duration?

    Asked the community whether time capsules should default to picking a calendar date or a duration from today.

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  8. Account settings: password, email, sessions, deletion

    Shipped a dedicated Account Settings page for security and data control — including a 7-day account deletion grace period.

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  9. Year one: growth, mobile, and a premium teaser

    A year-in update on growth, the mobile waitlist, keeping core capsules free, and early premium thinking.

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  10. File attachments are finally here

    Photos, video, audio, and documents on capsules — a long-requested feature shipped for New Year letters.

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  11. Import emails from CSV (including FutureMe)

    Shipped a three-step CSV import path — then fixed a Safari timestamp parsing bug from community reports.

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  12. Custom email subjects

    Added customizable subject lines after community requests on the feature megathread.

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  13. Delete scheduled and delivered emails

    Added permanent delete for capsules — and an important community conversation about trust and sustainability.

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  14. Smart date input and delivery time

    Natural-language date/duration parsing, calendar shortcuts, and hour-level delivery time.

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  15. Send time capsules to multiple recipients

    Shipped multi-recipient delivery (up to 10) — a highly requested feature from the megathread — plus a roomier composer.

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  16. Scheduling emails up to 10 years ahead

    Raised the scheduling horizon from 5 to 10 years after repeated community requests.

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  17. Reflections on emails from your past self

    Shipped: open delivered emails on the site and write dated reflections — as many as you want, whenever you come back.

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  18. Feature requests megathread — the community roadmap

    Opening a standing thread for ideas that later shipped: multiple recipients, subjects, attachments, and more.

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  19. Welcome to EmailToFuture — founding the subreddit

    Why I built a free FutureMe alternative, how 500+ early signups arrived, and what r/EmailToFuture is for.

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  20. Where EmailToFuture started: a comment on r/futureme

    How a FutureMe alternatives thread led me to share EmailToFuture — and how early users found the project.

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