Ahhh building an email client. Yeah we had to do that on iOS and Android. Well, we didn’t really want to build one - like you said its a huge undertaking. Our hand was kind of forced because on mobile, our users still wanted the deep email integration. I’d almost say this was an area where we just had to hit a min bar at and didn’t really contribute to our 10x better advantage. In fact, we so didn’t want to do this that in our initial versions we just embedded a webview in our app and pointed it at gmails mobile website. We injected some JS into that webview to get the deep integration with Streak - it wasn’t pretty but it worked. Barely.
That being said - our longer term vision is for Streak to be the way users do email. And building an email client will be a big part of that. Our new iOS app thats in beta currently makes some huge strides here - the email client is better than Gmail’s.