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Well, that's a no-go. We're a small startup that's scraping by and only recently we're starting to get some traction on our GMail integration. If we're asked to
by ihaveajob 8y ago
Well, that's a no-go. We're a small startup that's scraping by and only recently we're starting to get some traction on our GMail integration. If we're asked to undergo such a review, we don't have the $15k+ to spare, so we'll likely say goodbye to the ecosystem. Like someone else said in this story, we're probably just going to focus on Microsoft which is much more developer friendly.
Worst of all, this won't stop intentional bad actors from stealing user data for whatever purposes they have in mind. Big pockets are going to laugh even at a $75k fee.
- hnnh44 8y agoIs it possible to build a browser extension to replace the existing functionality?
- ihaveajob 8y agoIt is, but it's an inferior proposition for our business (and for users) without access to the Gmail store. In fact we used to have our functionality as a Chrome extension but Google aggressively marketed the native approach when they published the "New Gmail". And we went for it.
- hnnh44 8y agoWhat about using the Gmail API into an app that gets overlayed into Gmail via chrome extension?
- ihaveajob 8y agoIt seems like add-ons are still mostly Ok if they use the narrowly defined scopes, instead of say "gmail.readonly" which is a blanket permission. Minor heart attack, but we might be ok.