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Re: Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

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Post by shwinnabego »

peterjaap wrote: post #10

The point you make about not having to scroll endlessly through your inbox to find 'that link' is moot when using Point a lot, because you'll be endlessly scrolling through the Point app. Also; what happens when the content changes and the quoted part is gone? Would be interesting for for example QA teams when you include Dropbox integration with a screenshot option.

Good point -- though we are building a search functionality now so that won't be the case soon enough!

If the content on the page changes, the quoted text will still show in the point chat box. Definitely useful to comment on Dropbox files/links.

Re: Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

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Post by peterjaap »

shwinnabego wrote: post #11
peterjaap wrote: post #10

The point you make about not having to scroll endlessly through your inbox to find 'that link' is moot when using Point a lot, because you'll be endlessly scrolling through the Point app. Also; what happens when the content changes and the quoted part is gone? Would be interesting for for example QA teams when you include Dropbox integration with a screenshot option.

Good point -- though we are building a search functionality now so that won't be the case soon enough! If the content on the page changes, the quoted text will still show in the point chat box. Definitely useful to comment on Dropbox files/links.

Still moot, my mail app has a search box as well.

Re: Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

#13

Post by hardwaresofton »

Wow, this is actually pretty amazing, fluid user interactions, non-intrusive, and very easy on the eyes.

Great execution -- it's an idea a LOT of people have tried to do (check app store for "chat with users on same page" or something, you'll see what I mean), and you guys really do a great job of it.

I'd love to see some assertions/information on what you do with data accrued on the app. Who are you sharing what I'm looking at with? are you deleting it as soon as you get it? are you storing it?

Re: Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

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Post by reshambabble »

This is kind of awesome. Really great landing page. Great testimonials - makes me feel like if I use it, I know many others will already have it (or will easily adopt when I share it). Screenshots are perfect - I know exactly what I'm getting myself into. You guys turned some great insight into a great product. Can't wait to use it myself.

quick edit - have you guys seen Spot.IM? I know this isn't exactly a competitor, but it's probably good to check out: http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/22/spot-im/

Re: Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

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Post by abhoopathy »

reshambabble wrote: post #14

This is kind of awesome. Really great landing page. Great testimonials - makes me feel like if I use it, I know many others will already have it (or will easily adopt when I share it). Screenshots are perfect - I know exactly what I'm getting myself into. You guys turned some great insight into a great product. Can't wait to use it myself. quick edit - have you guys seen Spot.IM? I know this isn't exactly a competito…

Thanks! Feel free to point us @Point Team when you're on the app. Would love to hear further feedback.

Re: Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

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Post by wannatouchmyfro »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #13

Wow, this is actually pretty amazing, fluid user interactions, non-intrusive, and very easy on the eyes. Great execution -- it's an idea a LOT of people have tried to do (check app store for "chat with users on same page" or something, you'll see what I mean), and you guys really do a great job of it. I'd love to see some assertions/information on what you do with data accrued on the app. Who are you sharing what I'm…

Thanks! Yeah, we've definitely seen a number of attempts at this over the years. As for data accrued on the app, every link you “point” is private between just you and any friends added to that chat. What you share isn’t broadcasted to a feed or anything. There is currently no delete option though, so the data—like that URL and the messages around it—remains stored in our database so that you can revisit the conversation any time. We also don't track your browsing history/habits outside of Point.

Re: Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

#17

Post by src »

abhoopathy wrote: post #2

Hey HN, my friends and I have been working on this extension for the past year. For the curious, we were frustrated with using email and chat for sharing & discussing links, so we built Point. We've seen various iterations of this over the years, but we'd love to hear what the HN community thinks about our take on it. @shwinnabego, @wannatouchmyfro, and I are here to field your comments, and questions, and feedback!

It's pretty cool. Congrats on your effort. On suggestion, you can make it more less memory intensive. On my MBP/Chrome, my fan started blowing at full speed while I was using Point. I compared the webpage's memory footprint with and without the extension and the difference is huge. 109MB vs 60MB for my personal webpage. It's even more on the verge example.

Re: Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

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Post by abhoopathy »

src wrote: post #17
abhoopathy wrote: post #2

Hey HN, my friends and I have been working on this extension for the past year. For the curious, we were frustrated with using email and chat for sharing & discussing links, so we built Point. We've seen various iterations of this over the years, but we'd love to hear what the HN community thinks about our take on it. @shwinnabego, @wannatouchmyfro, and I are here to field your comments, and questions, and feedback!

It's pretty cool. Congrats on your effort. On suggestion, you can make it more less memory intensive. On my MBP/Chrome, my fan started blowing at full speed while I was using Point. I compared the webpage's memory footprint with and without the extension and the difference is huge. 109MB vs 60MB for my personal webpage. It's even more on the verge example.

Thanks a lot. What did you use to determine this? I am using Chrome inspector's heap allocation profiler and not noticing this difference. We're very interested in fixing this!

Re: Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

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Post by src »

abhoopathy wrote: post #18
src wrote: post #17

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It's pretty cool. Congrats on your effort. On suggestion, you can make it more less memory intensive. On my MBP/Chrome, my fan started blowing at full speed while I was using Point. I compared the webpage's memory footprint with and without the extension and the difference is huge. 109MB vs 60MB for my personal webpage. It's even more on the verge example.

Thanks a lot. What did you use to determine this? I am using Chrome inspector's heap allocation profiler and not noticing this difference. We're very interested in fixing this!

Hi, I used the Chrome task manager (Under more tools) to check the memory usage on the page with/without the extension. Perhaps the profiler can give you more info.
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