Introducing Sunshine
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Introducing Sunshine
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#2[...] Or if the great photos you have of your friends got sent to them automatically.
I know that's just an example but I'd literally never want this to happen and the fact that this is a cherry-picked feature used as promotion is worrying to me.
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#3I really hate to sound negative but all a former VP (or was it SVP?) at Google and an ex-CEO of Yahoo could come up for a startup idea is a new and improved contacts app.
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#4I really hate to sound negative but all a former VP (or was it SVP?) at Google and an ex-CEO of Yahoo could come up for a startup idea is a new and improved contacts app.
That comment can pretty much be applied to any successful startup in the early days.
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#5[...] Or if the great photos you have of your friends got sent to them automatically. I know that's just an example but I'd literally never want this to happen and the fact that this is a cherry-picked feature used as promotion is worrying to me.
I also had this exact thought.
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#6just a manifesto no product? some soft launch this is, whatever product(s) lies at the end of the tunnel seems bogus but it's a nicely worded pitch
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#7I really hate to sound negative but all a former VP (or was it SVP?) at Google and an ex-CEO of Yahoo could come up for a startup idea is a new and improved contacts app.
That comment can pretty much be applied to any successful startup in the early days.
I note a plethora of mundane products from all the bigs players. Doing popular things better should always be a viable plan, IMO.
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#8Three clicks to get to the actual "privacy policy", i'll save you the time and tell you what they collect:
You - name, phone number, work email, mailing address, birthday, "other personal info", data about you from data brokers
Your devices - IP, browser, OS, mobile carrier, device info, cookies, any data collected by third party SDKs they use
Location - yours, what other users are near you
Friends - contacts on your device, info from your friends they submit as a result of emails the company sends on your behalf, contacts from direct access to your Google accounts
Gmail - your email
Edit to add: You must create an account to view or request deletion of your data under CCPA
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#9I really hate to sound negative but all a former VP (or was it SVP?) at Google and an ex-CEO of Yahoo could come up for a startup idea is a new and improved contacts app.
That comment can pretty much be applied to any successful startup in the early days.
Fair enough and perhaps in a few years my above comment would reach the same infamous status as the ones made on HN when Dropbox had launched. I wish the founders all the luck, I truly do.
Having said that, my comment was not at all about trivializing the idea or its future potential. A contact list can very well be the trojan horse to launch a new social network/IM platform.
My comment was more about that such founders have deep connections from the point of view of both access as well as availability of resources, have broad and deep insights due to their past experience and are obviously experienced and smart, and as such I would have liked them to tackle harder problems. That is all.
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#10Discussion from yesterday with an article that actually has some screenshots, etc. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25136898