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How to ditch Microsoft and join a great startup(geekwire.com)
15 points by borisjabes 13y ago|0 comments
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by borisjabes 13y ago
Boris from http://meldium.com (YC W13) here. We've built a solution to help teams do just this and our customers include companies like PagerDuty and Hipmunk. Ideally, you never have to share passwords as everyone on your t
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by borisjabes 13y ago
We hit this situation a while back on our product and implemented batching as a result ( http://blog.meldium.com/home/2013/4/22/dont-spam-your-users-... )
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by borisjabes 13y ago
You might be thinking of Meldium (YC W13) -- happy to help you set it up!
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by borisjabes 14y ago
Interesting. I think ultimately user control is what you want here. For example, Trello offers a choice between Instant, Hourly, and Never. For now Meldium uses a heuristic to batch so if only one event occurs then you still get the subject
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by borisjabes 14y ago
Agreed, that's definitely the weakest statement in the article. Mozilla does a better job here by having human editors review extension code.
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by borisjabes 14y ago
This is definitely something that affects all browsers. That said, things are a little different with IE since it does not provide an extension marketplace or a fine-grained permissions model, which Chrome (and Firefox) do.
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by borisjabes 14y ago
A couple of notes on the article: 1. I'm really surprised legit vendors like LastPass don't become verified authors on the Chrome webstore; it's trivial to setup. We were able to do this for Meldium easily. 2. Joe's comments that it's hard
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by borisjabes 14y ago
The eternal dilemma. It will be interesting to see where the community goes on this. Peer pressure can go a long way!
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by borisjabes 14y ago
We definitely agree that this can apply to more than just apps and we may extend to more kinds of data over time. We just opted to focus on apps for this first release.
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by borisjabes 14y ago
is this any different than Glympse?
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by borisjabes 14y ago
the app store does make up for this deficiency in other ways though. - app reviews (incl. facebook integration now) that make it a lot easier to know whether the app is working/useful/great. - highlights in the app store app itself. sure th