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Cool product!

I'm curious if you considered using inboxsdk.com for the Gmail extension you wrote. I'm one of the founders of Streak and we released the SDK specifically to make these kinds of apps way easier to build. Would love any technical feedback on why you chose not to use it (if you've heard of it).

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No way! I wish I saw this before! Could have saved so much time instead of burning my eye-balls on DOM hacking.

One question for you. Did you use guys Google OAuth API for user authentication? I'm using it but have found it starts going crazy with multiple sign-ins (usually 4+ sign-ins).

Our server connects to the Gmail API on our backend. Using the SDK will let you add your UI to the top section of gmail (like your app does) but also get the currently signed in user. You'll still need to implement your own oauth flow. Alternatively, if you are targeting chrome only, you can use chromes users api to make authenticated requests directly to the gmail API with no backend needed.

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