[LRUG] [ANN] Jelly, the shared inbox for the rest of us

[Tim Cowlishaw]

This may not mean much to the majority of people, but I was very impressed
by the fact that (according to the promo video) you already count the Bluth
Company among your customers!

(and also that the monthly price is *less than* the cost of three bananas)


Best wishes!

Tim

(Some context <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_Qyk9DSUw> for anyone not
familiar with the Arrested Development
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development> universe)


On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 at 12:39, James Adam <james at lazyatom.com> wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> I’ve been pretty quiet recently, almost entirely because having a young
> family sucks up a lot of time, but also because I’ve been working hard
> building something, and we are finally ready to let more people start using
> it.
>
> Jelly <https://letsjelly.com/> is our take on a simple-but-powerful
> shared inbox for (small) teams, groups, community organizers, and basically
> anyone who needs to share an email inbox.
>
> A lot of the inspiration for building this comes from being involved in
> organising things like LRUG & RubyManor, and working as part of small teams
> like Free Range. We’ve needed a shared view of all the emails coming in and
> going out of our group, and a way to clearly see *who* is handling *what* so
> that we don’t step on each other’s toes or duplicate efforts.
>
> Every time I’ve searched for something that would let us do that, I always
> end up looking at ZenDesk or HelpScout or other customer-support-focussed
> tools, which yes, would definitely work, but
>
> a) they’re over-complicated and focussing on a way of dealing with email
> (i.e. “tickets”) that doesn’t really map to reality, and
> b) they are *so expensive* as soon as you get even a couple of folk
> involved.
>
> Our pitch with Jelly is simple: treat email like email, and don’t charge
> per-seat so that everyone who *should* be collaborating *can* without
> anyone having to worry about if it’s worth the cost to add them.
>
> Anyway, blah blah blah. Our hope is to make something that works really
> well for small company teams/startups as well as communities and other
> groups. LRUG itself has been a beta user since the start, and I *think* it’s
> working pretty well for them? Right? I hope so??! 😅
>
> If you’d like to try it, please do check it out. And if you have any
> questions or want to know more, get in touch with me. We’re offering
> discounts for any teams that we can talk to and learn from.
>
> https://letsjelly.com
>
> Hopefully I’ll get back to an LRUG meeting soon!
>
> — James
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