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Bacn is the New Spam

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36 pointsjmarbach15 comments

Another blog, another false top-left-logo click that I thought would take me to the product.

If you can't pay attention to a detail like that, how can I expect the product itself to be any less frustrating?

Show us you're paying attention. I beg of you.

I clicked the picture of bacon at the bottom of the article hoping to see a massively blown up photo of a pile of greasy bacon, and was actually redirected to the app!

I would be interested to see click-through data on that... :)

I will try and get you that data :)

The top left logo clearly says "Glider Blog" -> If it had taken me to the product I would be disappointed.

The product can be accessed from the blog roll under Glider Home.

Yes, they're absolutely right. Not having bacn in my INBOX is wonderful. But I have that already, using Gmail filters. Glider could automate it for me, which would be valuable. I don't think I'd value it at $9/month, though. Maybe I'm not in the target market for this.

Nice to see more competition in this space. I've found newsletter email filtering to be a godsend and it's changed how I deal with email.

I used to setup tons of filter rules manually, but now I just subscribe to anything of interest, and don't worry about the consequences.

Sanebox[1] allowed me to do this. It uses a ML algo over any Imap account (I'm using it on Gmail) so it's email client independent. It works incredibly well.

No affiliation with SB, just a happy customer and it's 1/4 the monthly price to boot.

[1] http://www.sanebox.com/

Why do people write the word "spam" in all-caps? It's not an acronym...

Actually, it is. It stands for "Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages".

...At least, that's what I've always thought it to be, anyway. Now that I go back and check, I can't quite find a source for this claim.

My understanding is that it's derived from 1970s database programmers "spamming the database" with dummy data. The original term comes from Monty Python's Spamalot skit, I believe.

Perhaps it's because the name brand is spelled in all caps.

Doesn't gmail's smart labels provide this functionality? I've LOVED having "Promotions" skip the inbox and land in their own label.

I find that Gmail's smart labels work very nicely for me.

I installed glider.io and, as of now, I'm not sure why it is better than simple Gmail labeling / filter. But on the other hand, it is better that "smart" outlook.com classification (which cannot even figure out where to put mails from billing@microsoft.com). So there might be something about this is the future.

Gonna have trouble acquiring users at $9/month.

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