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Ask HN: Please review my site "Smoke Signal"
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Re: Ask HN: Please review my site "Smoke Signal"
#2Good Luck!
There's a little typo - "We use Oauth to look at the amount email in your inbox, nothing else." - missing OF after amount.
On the learn more page there's an extra apostrophe - "email signature that let's other"
It looks really neat. How do you deal with "out of office" situations, where people are likely to have full inboxes?
Re: Ask HN: Please review my site "Smoke Signal"
#3Cool idea but I tend to glance through every email as it comes in and either respond, do nothing or mark them for a later action (flagging, etc) so it doesn't quite fit into my workflow.
On the other end of this, there are definitely times where I've wondered how busy someone I'm emailing was. I'd enjoy being able to quickly gauge their status.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my site "Smoke Signal"
#4Good Luck! There's a little typo - "We use Oauth to look at the amount email in your inbox, nothing else." - missing OF after amount. On the learn more page there's an extra apostrophe - "email signature that let's other" It looks really neat. How do you deal with "out of office" situations, where people are likely to have full inboxes?
Ha, I'm sure there are other typos as well!
If someone gets a full inbox while on vacation, I'm guessing they would still want others to know their inbox is full, no?
Re: Ask HN: Please review my site "Smoke Signal"
#5The site looks very nice, and the idea looks interesting. Another small typo: "Also until we get create a proper login system".
How do you determine what are "healthy" and "unhealthy" amounts of email? If I ignore a bunch of mailing-list type email in my inbox by just glancing at the title, I may have hundreds of "unread" messages but that doesn't mean I'm totally flooded with email. Thoughts?
Re: Ask HN: Please review my site "Smoke Signal"
#6I get the feeling that this is a MVP or feature test for something bigger. Because truth be told, I don't see why people would care about someone's inbox health, especially since people use their Gmail account as a garbage dump+todo list+backup. I've seen inboxes with THOUSANDS of unread email and most people I know don't archive anything at all.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my site "Smoke Signal"
#7I appreciate a good hack, but just can't get past the idea that this is a solution in search of a problem.
2 Reasons I would never consider using this:
1. I don't want anyone to have any idea "how busy I am". Maybe I'm old fashioned, but the size of my inbox, like many other things, is no one's business but mine.
2. This effectively makes the sender the gatekeeper for deciding what's important. I want to be my own gatekeeper. I would much rather have everyone send everything when they would normally send it and let me decide when or whether to read it. I can't think of any good reason why losing control and losing data would be advantageous. I'd rather figure out ways to manage my time and my inbox than wonder what I'm not receiving because someone else made a decision "on my behalf".
Re: Ask HN: Please review my site "Smoke Signal"
#8The site looks very nice, and the idea looks interesting. Another small typo: "Also until we get create a proper login system". How do you determine what are "healthy" and "unhealthy" amounts of email? If I ignore a bunch of mailing-list type email in my inbox by just glancing at the title, I may have hundreds of "unread" messages but that doesn't mean I'm totally flooded with email. Thoughts?
Great point. In future versions we may only ping your Priority Inbox, instead of everything. Would that be a more accurate reflection of your "busyness"?
Re: Ask HN: Please review my site "Smoke Signal"
#9The site looks very nice, and the idea looks interesting. Another small typo: "Also until we get create a proper login system". How do you determine what are "healthy" and "unhealthy" amounts of email? If I ignore a bunch of mailing-list type email in my inbox by just glancing at the title, I may have hundreds of "unread" messages but that doesn't mean I'm totally flooded with email. Thoughts?
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Re: Ask HN: Please review my site "Smoke Signal"
#10I get the feeling that this is a MVP or feature test for something bigger. Because truth be told, I don't see why people would care about someone's inbox health, especially since people use their Gmail account as a garbage dump+todo list+backup. I've seen inboxes with THOUSANDS of unread email and most people I know don't archive anything at all.
Yep, MVP indeed!
Our core idea is that email interactions should be based on one's availability. More thoughts on that here: http://blog.getsmokesignal.com/post/10660730744