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Great idea. I'll see if I can push that out shortly

Interesting, but how do they decide which posts to resurface? manually? I hope not, that would introduce bias

Excellent job. For those interested in just seeing (no source) really well designed emails can alwasy check out: http://reallygoodemails.com/

I remember seeing these guys pitch PagerDuty years ago at a Waterloo StartupCamp (before yc). Awesome to see them go this far!

Actually I believe the House of Saud aka Saud Family (in Saudi Arabia) has a well known estimated net-worth of over 1.4 Trillion.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saud#Wealth

My next article will be on current state of un-acquired email startups. I'll cover funding information, employee count, year founded. The funding information alone would be quite useful.

As a side note: I predict that we'll see a significant increase in email startups in the next 2 years.

fixed. added Mailgun and FastMail.

Give Planleaf a shot for (7). I use it to track everything. Just send an email to tasks@planleaf.com with a blank subject line and enter your tasks starting with a dash in the body. It will append to a personal todo list. Rinse and repeat. It sends awesome daily digests on all my tasks :)

Great catch. Will update now

alooPotato: Is there way to split it off to another thread while keeping the same subject?

For someone who runs into this issue quite often; this is a great add-on. You'd be surprised how many issues and embarrassing emails have arisen due to Gmail incorrectly threading emails. Great job Streak :)

p.s. Is it just me, but I can't fathom why the Gmail team doesn't scoop these guys up ASAP :)

Firstly, Great job on launching! Secondly, get ready for the most difficult, sloth-slow, gut wrenching sales cycles of your life. Any serious ($$) players looking for software like this take absolutely forever to make decisions on this. And, if you're workflow-process is even slower by a few seconds compared to what rad's are currently using, they will shut you down. So please please, make sure you are absolutely faster, smoother and better then _anything_ else on the market.

Disclosure: I've worked with some serious venture backed (50MM+) companies doing almost exactly this. I would love to give you a full heads up on what to expect. But making excellent scheduling alone is an incredibly difficult feat. Our team spent considerable time working with the absolutely top imaging facilities in the US just to get scheduling down to a science.

Go destroy those big guys! (AGFA/Fuji/GE etc)

We had similar numbers with Planleaf, minus TC. Except our conversion rates were quite high, but that lends itself to the product more than anything. Great job with Front App. 7 months is a long time. I think StatusPage.io waited a long time before doing their Show HN as well.

Hi mattkopecki, our enterprise/business version will be just that. You can host it internally and have tasks@mybigco.com as your internal hook for tasks

great suggestion, ping me at omar at planleaf dot com if there is anything else you would like to see in an enterprise tier.

Hi drsim, our current version doesn't have support adding people midway through a list. However, our version in dev does along additional help/tutorials. This is our MVP of Planleaf

I think we totally need to add more feedback for the user input as best as we can. We're even toying with adding a web-version of our product for power users. So web -> email will be very seamless.

Really appreciate the feecback, ping me at omar at planleaf.com if you have any other suggestions/concerns. I'm all ears :)

We're familiar with task.li :) I think the two products share some similarities but are starkly different in their execution. Planleaf has made an entire task management ecosystem _completely_ inside of email. This is where we shine, we leverage your email client to facilitate our app.

But yes, competition is always fantastic.

Thanks!! I'll be emailing you momentarily

Let me take a look into that for you. TBH, never heard of claws-mail until now :p

everything looks good on our end. Try again

You're not blind, lol. We're launching a business tier next which we'll charge for :)

Thanks! We wanted to remove all barriers of collaboration. It's friction-less using Planleaf, you need nothing other then an email to get going :)

Great job. I love useful chrome extensions. I wonder where all the extension security haters on HN went today :p

At the moment I just scan for the most commonly known sources of tracking and then things that seem to be tracker images. The logic is quite simple, definitely can be improved to pick up a lot more tracking sources. But for now it works quite well :)

Perhaps if I threw this on github people could see the code themselves, or better yet; run the extension in dev mode so they can 100% be sure they know the code running.

Appreciate the concerns claudiusd. Just trying to protect people's email privacy :)

Hi Alupis! PixelBlock specifically goes after known tracking images and things that smell like them (ie. 1x1 images). It doesn't block all images.

But more importantly, it's a privacy concern that some people may or may not have.

thanks! :)

Hi Aleem! This is Omar from Waterloo (your co-founder's friend). Big fan of you guys and what you've done with Streak. Contrary to some of the comments, some chrome extensions inside of gmail are very very very useful. Streak is definitely one of those

Edit2: Good catch Edit3: Technically yes, but I should move the blocking logic to the background script completely (webRequest level)

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I understand your concern, but chrome extensions for gmail are widely used even across business/enterprise.

If it's any consolidation, I do not store/scan/save any data. It just blocks images that people are using to invade your privacy (ie track your email opens).

p.s. There is no oauth access required for this extension/app.

I prefer not letting people know I'm reading their emails. It's a privacy thing :)

Author here, yes it does. Meaning, email tracking still works regardless of gmail pre-fetching. But accuracy may be slightly off

I'll add this as well, several companies have built products just to allow people to do email tracking in Gmail (boomerang, signals, streak, banana tag). So yes it does work

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