2012 · Pre-launch
Would you have funded Mailbox?
An email app with a waiting list
A small team has built a gesture-based iPhone email app that turns your inbox into a to-do list. Hundreds of thousands of people joined its waiting list before launch.
- Over 380,000 reservations before launch
- Free app
Show what happened
✅ Success
Mailbox Dropbox bought the company in March 2013, weeks after launch. Dropbox shut the app down in 2015.
Venture firms invested.
Sources: Mailbox (application) (Wikipedia)
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