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

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

#41

Post by cj » Fri, Jan 27, 2012, 11:48 PM UTC

kittxkat wrote: post #40

Sad to see its Gmail only. It looks promising, and I definitly would see me using it.

Thanks for the feedback. What do you currently use for mail?

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by guruz » Sat, Jan 28, 2012, 12:14 AM UTC

Arelius wrote: post #39

cj wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're undecided. Possibly a free account, with a paid version to remove ads? What are your thoughts?

I'd love to pay you a self-hosted version. There is also a good chance I'd pay you for a hosted version, so long as I knew I had the opportunity to upgrade to a self-hosted version, at a reasonable price for an individual with multiple domains. I'd not pay for a version that had adds, and personally would likely to pay to remove adds, but it's unclear if that'd apply to many people.

Yeah, self-hosted with ability to use generic IMAP/SMTP accounts would be awesome.

And multiple accounts at once.

But don't let these wishes distract you for now. :)

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

#43

Post by tylerwl » Sat, Jan 28, 2012, 12:39 AM UTC

cj wrote: post #16

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..

We're limiting to GMail (including google app accounts) so we can focus on nailing the interface and auto-categorization of email. We plan to add support for other providers and possibly self-hosted in the future.

I would include this information on your How Glider Works page, as well as a "Stay Notified" option for visitors who don't use GMail but are interested in Glider. Making this addition will allow you to build targeted lists of potential users for future versions of Glider.

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

#44

Post by ricin » Sat, Jan 28, 2012, 12:45 AM UTC

This sounds similar to OIB (http://otherinbox.com). How does it compare? I'm a long time OIB user, so I'm interested in finding out more.

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

#45

Post by jamesrcole » Sat, Jan 28, 2012, 1:04 AM UTC

Website feedback: it looks terrible on iPhone. When the page loads all you see is the word 'Glider' and the rest is just a blank gray background. You have to scroll and pan to see any of the content.

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by cj » Sat, Jan 28, 2012, 1:13 AM UTC

jamesrcole wrote: post #45

Website feedback: it looks terrible on iPhone. When the page loads all you see is the word 'Glider' and the rest is just a blank gray background. You have to scroll and pan to see any of the content.

Ahh, you're right. I neglected to test it on iphone/android before launching. I'll fix this in the next iteration. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

#47

Post by overshard » Sat, Jan 28, 2012, 2:05 AM UTC

cj wrote: post #18

overshard wrote: post #15

I've personally fixed many issues with email sorting myself with Gmail filters and so forth but it would be nice if I didn't have to have these filters and my client did it magically. I hope it keeps my Google address book and my ability to send from a selection email addresses I own. Losing those would be a deal breaker.

Glider will pull in your contacts and address book, and other similar data to make the transition viable. Definitely let us know if there are other features you rely on so we can work on implementing them.

Import Export won't be very effective for me. I update contacts on a regular basis and the Google Address book keeps it synced to my tablet, phone, and Home and Work computers.

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

#48

Post by jmarbach » Sat, Jan 28, 2012, 2:40 AM UTC

ricin wrote: post #44

This sounds similar to OIB ( http://otherinbox.com ). How does it compare? I'm a long time OIB user, so I'm interested in finding out more.

I've also been using OIB as a GMail extension for auto-sorting my mail. Glider is a whole new interface, a new way to view your email/inbox. OIB is just a way to sort emails and apply categorical labels. In other words, OIB is an incremental improvement on GMail organization, and Glider is an entirely new webmail experience.

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

#49

Post by comechao » Sat, Jan 28, 2012, 3:33 AM UTC

cj wrote: post #30

JeffL wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

A video could be nice either.

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

#50

Post by rcthompson » Sat, Jan 28, 2012, 6:08 AM UTC

liuhenry wrote: post #31

rcthompson wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Baudehlo is correct. Gmail provides a SASL extension called XOAuth that allows you to authenticate IMAP/SMTP with OAuth tokens.

Well, that's cool.