grinich

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   by grinich 12y ago

   The short answer is that (1) email wasn't designed to be instantaneous, and (2) it uses a distributed protocol. One of our goals is to make transit as fast as possible. But there's a limit to what Inbox can do right now since it w
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   by grinich 12y ago

   One of the plans we have for the full hosted version is to create an auth flow that scopes permissions granted, kind of like how Facebook apps can only do certain things. So perhaps one app only has access to read mail from flights@virginam
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   by grinich 12y ago

   :) Let us know how it goes! We're in ##inbox on freenode, or at developers@inboxapp.com
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   by grinich 12y ago

   To boldly go where no APIs have gone before... ;) More seriously, we're super focused on MS Exchange support for enterprises. Ping me if you'd like preview access to this: mg@inboxapp.com
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   by grinich 12y ago

   Yes, for caching+performance reasons.
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   by grinich 12y ago

   Thanks! :)
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   by grinich 12y ago

   They will gladly shut the service down once someone offers them enough money in aqui-hire. It's a bummer this is the status quo with startups. To me, it's the most disappointing thing about the tech world. I actually int
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   by grinich 12y ago

   (Michael from Inbox here.) Ouch. We're just a few hackers trying to fix broken developer tools. Any claim is just a claim, for sure. We know that it's a long road to earn trust of other developers. One of the (many) reasons we mad
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   by grinich 12y ago

   This is exactly why we built the Inbox API.
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    by grinich 12y ago

    Yeah definitely! iOS: https://github.com/inboxapp/inbox-ios JS/Angular: https://github.com/inboxapp/inbox.js Full API docs: https://www.inboxapp.com/docs
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    by grinich 12y ago

    Michael from Inbox here. IMAP, yes. Gmail and Yahoo! Mail now, expanding to others ASAP. (We depend on the `CONDSTORE` extensions right now for performance, which isn't always supported.) POP, no. My time machine didn't go back th
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    by grinich 12y ago

    You can totally still run it yourself. But we figure most developers won't want to run lots and lots of servers to sync+store terabytes of mail data. (see Heroku, AWS, etc.) ... but you can if you want. And if that sounds interesting,
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    by grinich 12y ago

    Michael from Inbox here. I actually looked pretty closely at JMAP when it was announce. It's really just a JavaScript wrapper around IMAP conventions. Plus, there's no way to actually use it-- it's just a document spec. The t
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    by grinich 12y ago

    I said this in the other thread and I know it sounds cliché, but we're not planning to "go away" or get acquired or something. We've always positioned this company as a long-term play, and made that very clear when hirin
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    by grinich 12y ago

    Yep, you can set up a webhook with `*` filter criteria, but I think OP was talking about a more specific notification system for the delta sync endpoint.
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    by grinich 12y ago

    Michael from Inbox here. Short answer: we're working on it. Any pushing-based API really needs to gracefully degrade to polling in case messages are lost. So we decided to first make sure the semantics of the delta sync API were great.
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    by grinich 12y ago

    nmh?
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    by grinich 12y ago

    Monetization: We're going to run a hosted version (think Heroku) that developers can use instead of running their own infrastructure. No details to announce now, but feel free to email me if you'd like to join the preview beta. mg
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    by grinich 12y ago

    Michael from Inbox here. I know it sounds cliché, but we're not planning to "go away" or get acquired. We've always positioned this company as a long-term play, and made that clear when hiring, raising money, etc.. It&#x
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    by grinich 12y ago

    Yep, it really focuses on the developer experience. Threads are a first-class object in the Inbox API, which is an abstraction above the existing protocols. (Although it still deals with messages under the hood.) https://www.inbo
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    by grinich 12y ago

    Michael from Inbox here. First of all, we love Fastmail and think they're great. :) We're working hard to support any IMAP server, and it's our goal to support all providers. We just started with Gmail/Yahoo because they
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    by grinich 12y ago

    Hi HN. Michael from Inbox here. We're pretty excited about this announcement, and can't wait to see what people build with these tools. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback.
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    Inbox — The next-generation email platform(inboxapp.com)

    61 points by grinich 12y ago|36 comments
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    by grinich 12y ago

    who wrote the copy for the new site? (it's great!)
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    by grinich 12y ago

    or a PUT rather ;P
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    by grinich 12y ago

    Everyone has one vote. The problem with dollars is that some people have more. Many, many more. So while I agree in principle that we should close the gap between citizens and decision-making, I'm not confident the right way to do it i
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    by grinich 12y ago

    If you Google for "www" the first result is Facebook. For many people, Facebook is how they interact with the web. It's their primary portal for talking with their friends, sharing photos, sending messages, and catching up
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    by grinich 12y ago

    That's the process.
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    by grinich 12y ago

    Mobile smartphones. That's what changed, and it's made all the difference.
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    by grinich 12y ago

    We'll think about media in a completely different way when this happens.