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tristanthomas

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    Comment #5103514

    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…

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    Comment #5103448

    Top nav fixed. Working on the logo and buttons. Thank you.

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    Comment #5103427

    Sorry :)

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    Comment #5103372

    Very much so troels, thank you. An unbiased, outside view of the design is critical. Working on it now.

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    Comment #5103361

    Thank you Henry. Much appreciated - check back in a few hours and hopefully it will be sorted.

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    Comment #5103336

    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 y…

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    Comment #5103253

    Useful comments and suggestions more than welcome - hi@useadd.com

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    Comment #5103240

    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 stagnan…

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    Comment #5103205

    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 t…

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    Comment #5103182

    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 curren…

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    Comment #5103118

    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 me…

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    Comment #5103056

    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.co…

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    Comment #4778264

    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, …

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    Comment #4778228

    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 othe…

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    Comment #4778140

    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, …

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    Comment #4778129

    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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    Comment #4778051

    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@c…

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    Comment #4778044

    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 co…

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    Comment #4778022

    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 expl…

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    Comment #4778005

    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…

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    Comment #4777993

    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 f…

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    Comment #4777955

    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…

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    Comment #4777938

    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 …