Show HN: Glider, a better email client • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by spindritf » Fri, Jan 27, 2012, 9:08 PM UTC

What's the pricing or a business model in general?

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by cj » Fri, Jan 27, 2012, 9:08 PM UTC

mooism2 wrote: post #17

Can you get rid of the window.alert() calls please. Annoying enough to make me stop reading.

Hmm, I had some alert() calls in there a few hours ago for testing, but I thought I took them all out (just double checked). What does the alert say?

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by baudehlo » Fri, Jan 27, 2012, 9:14 PM UTC

tinco wrote: post #13

cj wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Security is one of our top concerns, and we're looking into different ways to make it as airtight as possible. We'll have more info on security before we launch. At the moment, we're integrating through GMail through their API, so you can revoke access at any time, and we never see your password.

Hey, GMail doesn't have a public API does it? Could you tell us a bit about how you integrate with gmail, I thought they kept it pretty locked down?

Yes, you OAuth and then you can use IMAP with XOAUTH login.

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by baudehlo » Fri, Jan 27, 2012, 9:16 PM UTC

derwildemomo wrote: post #12

Why are you only supporting GMail? I mean, basically IMAP should do it, right? Considering the recent drop of "don't be evil", I'm seriously thinking about returning to self-hosted email and it would be a shame if such a hopefully great service wouldn't work with that..

One nice thing about talking to GMail is you can use OAuth (via IMAP, XOAUTH login), so that you never have to see the end user's password.

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by JeffL » Fri, Jan 27, 2012, 9:17 PM UTC

cj wrote: post #2

Hey HN, Glider co-founder here. We hated how existing email clients treated an email from Paul Graham the same as newsletters and twitter notifications. Gmail's priority inbox tried to fix this problem by filtering out "unimportant" emails, but messages from different contexts were still being mixed together. We think the best solution is to group emails by sender and context (people, notifications, mailing lists, et…

Your landing page is nice, but I'd really like to see a proper screenshot available.

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by courtewing » Fri, Jan 27, 2012, 9:18 PM UTC

I'm not huge into email clients, but perhaps that's just because I never found one that offered me much that my web client does not. With that in mind, I sincerely wish you the best of luck and hope that you can change mind.

Unrelated, the CSS background on your marketing page is a little borked on larger screens:

http://i.imgur.com/uoYkJ.png

I'm on a standard 27" apple display running at 2560 x 1440 (which was the default resolution).

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by cj » Fri, Jan 27, 2012, 9:18 PM UTC

macmac wrote: post #10

"Robust search" is listed as the top feature. Is that really meaningful for something built upon Gmail which already outshines every other solution out there regarding search?

We're working on a non-standard search implementation that takes into account not only the terms you're searching for, but the type of emails your expecting your query to return (without adding additional operators or search complexity).

Our interface and the way we present emails on the page (contrary to traditional inboxes) decreases the importance of having phenomenal search algorithms.

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by cj » Fri, Jan 27, 2012, 9:23 PM UTC

courtewing wrote: post #26

I'm not huge into email clients, but perhaps that's just because I never found one that offered me much that my web client does not. With that in mind, I sincerely wish you the best of luck and hope that you can change mind. Unrelated, the CSS background on your marketing page is a little borked on larger screens: http://i.imgur.com/uoYkJ.png I'm on a standard 27" apple display running at 2560 x 1440 (which was the d…

Thanks for the heads up. I'll definitely take care of that CSS issue in the next iteration.

What web client do you use?

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 27, 2012, 9:23 PM UTC

rcthompson wrote: post #20

famousactress wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean other than SMTP or POP? Those are both definitely public APIs.

Those also require your password, as far as I'm aware.

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Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by cj » Fri, Jan 27, 2012, 9:26 PM UTC

JeffL wrote: post #25

cj wrote: post #2

Hey HN, Glider co-founder here. We hated how existing email clients treated an email from Paul Graham the same as newsletters and twitter notifications. Gmail's priority inbox tried to fix this problem by filtering out "unimportant" emails, but messages from different contexts were still being mixed together. We think the best solution is to group emails by sender and context (people, notifications, mailing lists, et…

Your landing page is nice, but I'd really like to see a proper screenshot available.

Did the tilted screenshot on the homepage show up? We had some JS issues earlier.

Here's a full screenshot of our current iteration just in case: http://i39.tinypic.com/xfug5d.png