tristanthomas

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by tristanthomas 14y ago
You should be able to get your contacts into Evolution or any other software that supports CardDAV. We will try and get some instructions up this week - check back on http://useadd.com/guides/connect later Thank you for the comments, rea
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Doh.
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Top nav fixed. Working on the logo and buttons. Thank you.
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Sorry :)
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Very much so troels, thank you. An unbiased, outside view of the design is critical. Working on it now.
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Thank you Henry. Much appreciated - check back in a few hours and hopefully it will be sorted.
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Hi lifeisstillgood, We obviously haven't made it clear enough on our site. 1. I would need to know a bit more about your setup - but if you are on a Mac, we have integration with your email, the Skype app and syncing to iPhone/Android. If
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Useful comments and suggestions more than welcome - hi@useadd.com
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Agreed completely with most of your points - as I've already mentioned this is just the start and some of the things in the pipeline will easily surpass Google's relatively stagnant option. However, I don't think Google does respect your pr
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
We do have a roadmap - not with public dates, but items for the near term future include automatic exporting of your contacts from your current solution and better web management tools. The beauty of being a paid for solution is we can wor
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Hi impostervt, Yep, agree with you - we by no means are all the way there yet and there's still lots to do. Syncing is seamless, but at the moment you do need to export your current contacts and upload them to us. We are working on fixing
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Hi Holger, OK, so Add is a replacement for your contacts syncing and storage (of Gmail/iCloud etc.) for people who care about their privacy and believe that paying for a product means you are the customer, not the user or worse, the product
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Founder here: started on Hacker News back in November (1) and now built. There's lots still to do though - all thoughts and comments welcome. You can email directly at hi@useadd.com as well. 1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4777826
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Show HN: Contacts storage the way it should be done.(useadd.com)
18 points by tristanthomas 14y ago|46 comments
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Sorry Eugenio, I obviously didn't make myself very clear or I'm misunderstanding your need. They are automatically synchronised with your Android phone and available in Calendars, Apps and the Phone. I bet you wouldn't even notice the dif
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Hi ruswick, There are lots of options for contacts storage for free, but we are aiming to provide a service for people who care about their data and who has it. There are many other great features of our product, but none as good (we think
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Hi Kijin, We haven't put enough details about encryption on the landing page (because we didn't want to overload the page) but we will do very soon. With regards to exportability, if you check out the feature in the bottom right (Full Owner
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Hi Eugenio, Yep - your contacts can be easily transferred from Google Contacts and then used on your Android phone and in Thunderbird just the same.
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Hi spot, I'm sorry you feel that way - can I point you towards my reply to anonymouz as an extension of what we mean by that. Also, please feel free to email me directly at hello@columns.co if you have further questions or concerns.
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
One thing we want to combat against as well as direct selling of data which as you note is normally illegal is the use of your data within the company for other purposes (Google comes up as an obvious choice in selling advertisements agains
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Thanks slap_shot. I guess what we are trying to do is explain to people like us (geeks) what we really mean by being sustainable and trusted. It annoys me when companies don't explain WHY they are something they claim to be.
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
That's what we are hoping! Because we aren't trying to be a massive company that does everything but instead a small, sustainable business, even if we don't have MASS market appeal we will still have an appeal for people like us that will
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Hi casca, I totally understand and have actually stopped signing up for startups without a clear business model (even YC ones). I hope that our model means that we will be and if for some reason we aren't, because we make your data fully p
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Hi Andrew, Apologies for the lack of details - this is just our landing page and of course will be built out further. In answer to your questions: yep, it supports Thunderbird. Yep, it supports CardDAV. In terms of syncing with your Googl
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Hi sneak, A couple of reasons - by paying for the service you are a customer and your desires align with ours rather than us wanting to use your data to make money - we will never sell it. You fully own your data - no big companies with co
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by tristanthomas 14y ago
Founder here - very excited to show HN and look forward to all comments and thoughts.
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Show HN: Address book storage you can trust.(columns.co)
22 points by tristanthomas 14y ago|40 comments