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Streak (YC S11) launches Google Drive Integration

25 points by alooPotato 14y ago

andrewljohnson 14y ago
A few thoughts on Streak... We quickly adopted Streak to do customer support right when it came out, because we were stoked by the GMail integration. In the end, we found the canned responses to be no better than GMail canned responses though, and also Streak never seemed to "stick" as part of the support workflow. The support team ended up basically just sending emails, and the dev team didn't end up getting better visibility into issues. Recently, we switched to using UserVoice to handle support, and it works really well. We were using them for their IdeaForum, but also replaced our wiki/manual with their knowledgebase, and replaced Streak with their helpdesk. UserVoice ends up giving us a lot of data about support, and integrates search/knowledgebase nicely with support. I also like that the UserVoice iOS SDK is open source, and I was able to fix a display issue I noticed, and get a pull request accepted immediately. I also tried to use Streak to do PR - that might have not worked out because the intern wasn't very into doing PR, but I also felt a little clumsy trying to collaborate with her via Streak.
- alooPotato 14y ago
  Co-founder at Streak here. Would love to know how we can do better in the support use case. We've gotten much better since first launching but, admittedly, we aren't that great at that specific use case. Feel free to send to me directly at aleem at streak.
  - sebastianavina 14y ago
    It's common for me to make a quote for each box. I've to go to Google Docs, generate a Document, sometimes a Spreadsheet for a Bill of Materials, Redactate the quotation, Download the file as PDF, upload it to Gmail, attach it and send it. It would be awesome if every block could have some "special files", not the ones the customer send you (request for proposals, work orders, purchase orders), but the one you generate and send. I would like to have a button to just simply attach a Google Docs Word File as PDF on a mail, and send it.
rcoh 14y ago
Why not just use Filepicker?
shloime 14y ago
I heavily rely on Streak in my day to day and honestly can't imagine how I got by without it. I'm excited to try out this new feature. Seems pretty useful to be able to box files.

25 points by alooPotato 14y ago

A few thoughts on Streak... We quickly adopted Streak to do customer support right when it came out, because we were stoked by the GMail integration. In the end, we found the canned responses to be no better than GMail canned responses though, and also Streak never seemed to "stick" as part of the support workflow. The support team ended up basically just sending emails, and the dev team didn't end up getting better visibility into issues. Recently, we switched to using UserVoice to handle support, and it works really well. We were using them for their IdeaForum, but also replaced our wiki/manual with their knowledgebase, and replaced Streak with their helpdesk. UserVoice ends up giving us a lot of data about support, and integrates search/knowledgebase nicely with support. I also like that the UserVoice iOS SDK is open source, and I was able to fix a display issue I noticed, and get a pull request accepted immediately. I also tried to use Streak to do PR - that might have not worked out because the intern wasn't very into doing PR, but I also felt a little clumsy trying to collaborate with her via Streak.

alooPotato 14y ago
Co-founder at Streak here. Would love to know how we can do better in the support use case. We've gotten much better since first launching but, admittedly, we aren't that great at that specific use case. Feel free to send to me directly at aleem at streak.
- sebastianavina 14y ago
  It's common for me to make a quote for each box. I've to go to Google Docs, generate a Document, sometimes a Spreadsheet for a Bill of Materials, Redactate the quotation, Download the file as PDF, upload it to Gmail, attach it and send it. It would be awesome if every block could have some "special files", not the ones the customer send you (request for proposals, work orders, purchase orders), but the one you generate and send. I would like to have a button to just simply attach a Google Docs Word File as PDF on a mail, and send it.

rcoh 14y ago

Why not just use Filepicker?

shloime 14y ago

I heavily rely on Streak in my day to day and honestly can't imagine how I got by without it. I'm excited to try out this new feature. Seems pretty useful to be able to box files.