Serious question: How would this handle changes in Gmail?
Google is the platform owner and may change it without prior notice. My interest is in understanding how would someone using this sdk would be impacted.
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Re: Show HN: InboxSDK by Streak (YC S11) – Build Apps inside Gmail
#52Serious question: How would this handle changes in Gmail? Google is the platform owner and may change it without prior notice. My interest is in understanding how would someone using this sdk would be impacted.
We (streak) keep the SDK up to date. The JavaScript you put in your extension remotely loads the actual implementation of the SDK. If gmail changes, we change the implementation (fast) and your users get the change automatically. You the app developer dont need to do anything or even update your extension.
Re: Show HN: InboxSDK by Streak (YC S11) – Build Apps inside Gmail
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
A well rounded answer, but I'll pass for now. If Google really believed in your ethos of making the software more valuable via third parties, their platform wouldn't require dom hacks that could break without notice. i.e. they'd open up their own APIs to make building these sorts of apps themselves. I absolutely commend you for what you are doing, I just wouldn't be willing as a developer to dip my toes in that parti…
Thanks for the safari bug. fixing...
I'm sure you guys have already figured this out by now, but you just need to add a polyfill for `endsWith` since Safari doesn't implement the ECMAScript 6 spec.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Re: Show HN: InboxSDK by Streak (YC S11) – Build Apps inside Gmail
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
You do realize that any client-side code – especially with the universal right to decompile and adapt code in the EU – is essentially open source anyway?
I understand why this view point can be wrong. But instead of just downvoting him. Why not give a link or two, to correct him?
I guess you don't care to provide a link or two either?
(I don't know what you're talking about.)
Re: Show HN: InboxSDK by Streak (YC S11) – Build Apps inside Gmail
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry not at the moment. Actually Outlook has a really great API to write JS/HTML based apps for their desktop client, web client and mobile client. See https://dev.outlook.com/MailAppsGettingStarted/GetStarted
Some marketing: We are actually providing a Javascript wrapper for most of the official Outlook API, much more fully featured (incl. ribbons): http://developer.yasoon.com/
Yasoon looks cool! Is it Windows-only? At work we run Outlook on OS X, so not sure if it's usable there.
Re: Show HN: InboxSDK by Streak (YC S11) – Build Apps inside Gmail
#56Serious question: How would this handle changes in Gmail? Google is the platform owner and may change it without prior notice. My interest is in understanding how would someone using this sdk would be impacted.
We (streak) keep the SDK up to date. The JavaScript you put in your extension remotely loads the actual implementation of the SDK. If gmail changes, we change the implementation (fast) and your users get the change automatically. You the app developer dont need to do anything or even update your extension.
Any blog post that explains this a but further? It should be an interesting read, given that I assume you track changes and update programatically (to a degree).
Re: Show HN: InboxSDK by Streak (YC S11) – Build Apps inside Gmail
#57Neat idea but I don't get how it works with feature rollouts. If Gmail is updated which changes the DOM and breaks the API how does the SDK handle being updated when it's rarely a change that's rolled out instantly for all users (usually takes some time maybe even weeks). I mean you either have a TON of feature testing to figure it out or you let it break; neither of which seems very maintainable to me.
What's going to happen with the rumored update? I've been hearing rumors for over a year now that gmail, calendar, contacts and even tasks are being majorly overhauled; is there any collaboration with Google to make sure when (or if) these rumors come true that it won't simply break everything day one?
Trying not to be a nay sayer; this is a great idea if you want to quickly add something to Gmail without messing with the Gmail DOM yourself but it doesn't seem to be a good long term bet to me.
Re: Show HN: InboxSDK by Streak (YC S11) – Build Apps inside Gmail
#58We've been building our Gmail app over at http://CloseFox.com with InboxSDK and have really been enjoying it! Definitely a lot better than using gmail.js
Your intro video is waaaay too long, and after looking at it I am not even sure it was an intro video. The email written in the beginning, it never came back to it.
Lost interest halfway through, I think (there are no controls).
Re: Show HN: InboxSDK by Streak (YC S11) – Build Apps inside Gmail
#59Co-founder of DocSend here - we've been powering DocSend's integration into Gmail with the InboxSDK, and it's been a fantastic experience. So easy to use, and very robust - exactly what you look for in an API. This is a total game-changer. Very excited to see what the inbox will become thanks to the Streak team. Cheers! And of course you can check out the DocSend extension here to get insight into page-by-page engage…
This is pretty cool!
What I am really dying/desperate for is a group chat feature within Gmail where the chat rooms are permanent. I thought it was the biggest opportunity for years. Slack built a billion $ plus business of group chat outside of gmail. I am sure there is a reasonable sized opportunity for group chat within Gmail!
Re: Show HN: InboxSDK by Streak (YC S11) – Build Apps inside Gmail
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some marketing: We are actually providing a Javascript wrapper for most of the official Outlook API, much more fully featured (incl. ribbons): http://developer.yasoon.com/
Yasoon looks cool! Is it Windows-only? At work we run Outlook on OS X, so not sure if it's usable there.
Yeah, unfortunately it's Windows only atm. Outlook API's on Mac are basically non-existent, so we are having a hard time bridging these :/