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Building a platform on top of a Google product, specifically Gmail, is a recipe for disaster. I sincerely hope that nobody who cares about their money or sanit
by nilved 13y ago
Building a platform on top of a Google product, specifically Gmail, is a recipe for disaster. I sincerely hope that nobody who cares about their money or sanity does so.
- jaibot 13y agohttp://www.boomeranggmail.com/ http://www.boomeranggmail.com/ seems to be doing pretty well.
- tekacs 13y agoRapportive is an example of a company which seems to rely fairly heavily on heavy integration into Gmail. (Todoist is another example of something that integrates heavily that comes to mind)
- nilved 13y agoThere are enough horror stories regarding businesses built on Twitter &c to serve as cautionary tales, but Google and Gmail in particular are notoriously anti-developer. It is a nightmare to work with Gmail because, and I'm not even exaggerating, they actively prevent you from integrating with Gmail. Moreover, Google provides zero support and quite honestly hates you and everything about you. No person considering a startup today should consider building it atop somebody else's platform. Even forgetting Google, it just doesn't make sense. You do not want to be beholden to a company that could not give less of a shit about you, and in all likelihood has never even heard about you.