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I like the idea, and I find the problem that you address to be a very good one. The wording on the website is a little on the mushy side, as if it were a datin
by johnrob 19y ago
I like the idea, and I find the problem that you address to be a very good one. The wording on the website is a little on the mushy side, as if it were a dating site.
The biggest problem here is that you really need to get into people's inboxes somehow (like xobni). This is why I am not signing up - I know that the cost/benefit is too high for me - I am not capable of regularly returning to a destination site unless it involved something absolutely essential, like paying bills, or a fun time waster, like ycnews.
But I want to use your product. My email is all gmail. The information is all there: who I've corresponded with recently.
Perhaps you could latch onto the social networks, and monitor the inbox and wall features. Most of my neglected friends are connected to me on facebook...
- chaostheory 19y agoyeah... this is one of many mountains we have to climb... the problem with gmail and any web mail is that it's closed (I think the reasoning is security). Right now the only way I know how to access them is through scraping... Since we have social website apis - we figured it'd probably be a good initial focus outside of the stand alone site; given we're not as big as say Plaxo Yeah given the good feedback it sounds like we have to work on the wording... it's been a thin line balancing it out - but yeah the mushy part is a good point. not sure how to do it and still include that this is for your family and your significant other too and not just friends
- terpua 19y agoFor gmail, don't scrape. Use a browser extension, ask for person's gmail credentials and process the emails server-side. Just ask users to enable their POP. Showcase the info in the extension as a sidebar, etc., with updates say every 10 minutes.