Stripe for Gmail
Productivity
email customer support tool
SHOW HN2015
56points
13comments
#505of 2,565 in 2015
Top 20%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
3 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.29.
Idea: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for support and seeing paying customers
From 1 comment
We wrote this Gmail extension to use internally here at Streak. Super helpful for email customer support so we can see their billing history while emailing them as well as…
alooPotato on HN
Interest in Gmail as a platform
From 1 comment
This is awesome, really want to see more of gmail become a platform.
sean_lynch on HN
Objections
Gmail API gives overly broad inbox access, privacy concern
From 2 comments
Without the gmail API limiting inbox search access to a particular filter (eg, "any email from uber.com"), there's no way people should be building a business this way... opening…
davidu on HNWell I can't other than agree with you. When I was doing research on this particular use case I was surprised that GMail APIs are open like this. It was my priority to ensure…
tomashertus on HN
Requests
Gmail API should allow filtered access
From 1 comment
Well I can't other than agree with you. When I was doing research on this particular use case I was surprised that GMail APIs are open like this. It was my priority to ensure…
tomashertus on HN
Questions
When will InboxSDK API keys be opened to everyone
From 2 comments
How is InboxSDK coming along? I'd love to follow along with development if you guys have any sort of open source repo.
timdorr on HNThis is very cool. Thanks for doing this. I looked through Streak's code several few months ago while noodling with my own Gmail extension idea and the crazy hacks required just…
dugmartin on HN
Alternatives named
pistats.io email analytics
From 1 comment
What about something like this: https://pistats.io/ This is my side project, basically I think that there is space for analytic tool on the top of email(GMail in this case).…
tomashertus on HN
Inbox sync engine
From 1 comment
Well, we've built the ingester/REST part and we're working on the frontend :) Our sync engine is open source: https://github.com/inboxapp/inbox
jlees on HN