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Re: Show HN: Daily email summaries to keep up with your team

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Post by bjansn » Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 6:52 PM UTC

fenguin wrote: post #10

bjansn wrote: post #7

Somehow, and I know it may sound nitpicky, when you make a point about privacy and then require me to 'connect with google' to create an account, doesn't feel good. I'm not that big on privacy, but perhaps this might be an example of a webservice that should provide at least a way to create an account without connecting to any other service (google / facebook etc). I'd expect a bit more visualization or explanation o…

Thanks for the feedback! Would you feel better if we had a (semi-functioning) demo app for you to play around with before signing up? Since we aggregate information from all your team applications, your email would be empty without connecting at least one account.

I think the flaw here is that I won't use Google to import data for the email. But would want to connect Basecamp for example. Now I first need to connect Google (for which I have no purpose other than accessing the service) and then connect Basecamp. Doesn't make much sense.

Re: Show HN: Daily email summaries to keep up with your team

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Post by nickkthequick » Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 6:55 PM UTC

bjansn wrote: post #11

fenguin wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback! Would you feel better if we had a (semi-functioning) demo app for you to play around with before signing up? Since we aggregate information from all your team applications, your email would be empty without connecting at least one account.

I think the flaw here is that I won't use Google to import data for the email. But would want to connect Basecamp for example. Now I first need to connect Google (for which I have no purpose other than accessing the service) and then connect Basecamp. Doesn't make much sense.

Yeah that's a good point. Although, we don't make it very clear, you can connect your Google account and then opt to only get changes from your Basecamp account. But yes, you would always need to sign in using your Google account. Thanks a lot for the feedback.

Re: Show HN: Daily email summaries to keep up with your team

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Post by bjansn » Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 6:56 PM UTC

jp1989 wrote: post #6

Seems cool, this looks more impressive though - http://www.usepeak.com/ . What are the main differences?

This looks more like a webservice that provides a feed. Looks like Slack: https://slack.com/

Re: Show HN: Daily email summaries to keep up with your team

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Post by bjansn » Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 7:27 PM UTC

nickkthequick wrote: post #12

bjansn wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the flaw here is that I won't use Google to import data for the email. But would want to connect Basecamp for example. Now I first need to connect Google (for which I have no purpose other than accessing the service) and then connect Basecamp. Doesn't make much sense.

Yeah that's a good point. Although, we don't make it very clear, you can connect your Google account and then opt to only get changes from your Basecamp account. But yes, you would always need to sign in using your Google account. Thanks a lot for the feedback.

Perhaps create somekind of call to action that's more like this: 'Connect your Basecamp account', they end up by creating a normal account and then after that the first step is to connect their Basecamp account. This gives you a way to learn what webservice people would connect first. But hey, enough ideas. It's all about execution. Good luck!

Re: Show HN: Daily email summaries to keep up with your team

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Post by jp1989 » Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 9:38 PM UTC

fenguin wrote: post #9

jp1989 wrote: post #6

Seems cool, this looks more impressive though - http://www.usepeak.com/ . What are the main differences?

We've seen Peak, and it's encouraging that there are others in the automated productivity space. There are a few major differences between us and them, however: Peak focuses on the individual. We focus on the team. There was an excellent article today ( http://marcgg.com/blog/2013/11/12/peak-productivity/ ) discussing the issue with ranking team members based on their output, especially when information is far from c…

Good answer :)

Re: Show HN: Daily email summaries to keep up with your team

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Post by allworknoplay » Wed, Nov 13, 2013, 2:28 PM UTC

fenguin wrote: post #10

bjansn wrote: post #7

Somehow, and I know it may sound nitpicky, when you make a point about privacy and then require me to 'connect with google' to create an account, doesn't feel good. I'm not that big on privacy, but perhaps this might be an example of a webservice that should provide at least a way to create an account without connecting to any other service (google / facebook etc). I'd expect a bit more visualization or explanation o…

Thanks for the feedback! Would you feel better if we had a (semi-functioning) demo app for you to play around with before signing up? Since we aggregate information from all your team applications, your email would be empty without connecting at least one account.

I am pretty used to everyone being on google apps, so (selfishly) this isn't a problem for me, although I do agree it probably makes sense to support more options since you're catering to businesses who will probably have specific needs.

However, commenting 'cause this seems awesome, but as per your comment I definitely need more info before I want to sign you up, give you access to all those information sources, and start getting e-mails from you. A demo is pretty complex; just as good to get me started might be (for people who want to dig deeper, not for everyone) an example for each service of the information you can currently summarize and pack into an e-mail. Hell, you could offer to send me a one-time example e-mail so I can actually receive one and see what it'll be like.