Ask YC: Here's our web app - What do you think?

Re:Ask YC: Here's our web app - What do you think? by chaostheory on Thursday January 24, 2008 @11:49AM (#103559)

yeah... this is one of many mountains we have to climb... the problem with gmail and any web mail is that it's closed (I think the reasoning is security). Right now the only way I know how to access them is through scraping...

Since we have social website apis - we figured it'd probably be a good initial focus outside of the stand alone site; given we're not as big as say Plaxo

Yeah given the good feedback it sounds like we have to work on the wording... it's been a thin line balancing it out - but yeah the mushy part is a good point. not sure how to do it and still include that this is for your family and your significant other too and not just friends

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Re:Ask YC: Here's our web app - What do you think? by terpua on Thursday January 24, 2008 @12:02PM (#103571)

For gmail, don't scrape. Use a browser extension, ask for person's gmail credentials and process the emails server-side. Just ask users to enable their POP.

Showcase the info in the extension as a sidebar, etc., with updates say every 10 minutes.

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