gfeed: Turn your Gmail into a social feed to read through faster

Famealy

Looks great. Awesome explainer video btw. I haven't installed it yet - so question in the mean time - do you auth the client and fetch e-mails on the device itself, or does any (your) server come in between as well?

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8yr ago

Hugo Olliphant

gfeed

Maker

@dotmanish The server sits in the middle, I'm afraid. There's an algorithm and a lot of network chatter that sorts out the ideal preview image (not always that well). Many of the libraries that I have dependencies on are only available server-side. I'm sure there is a way to run this on a client-only basis, but this started as a design experiment and this was the easiest path.

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8yr ago

Manish Malik

Famealy

@hugo_olliphant Got that. With this kind of setup, a strong Privacy Policy is what several users would look for (I would). I don't see a Privacy Policy link on the website at the moment. IMHO, you should specify how long the email data sits on the server in FAQ. Is it retained, etc?

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8yr ago

Hugo Olliphant

gfeed

Maker

@dotmanish Good idea. I'll work on getting a policy in place.

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8yr ago

Hugo Olliphant

gfeed

Maker

First launch on Product Hunt, so a bit nervous. gfeed lets you zip through your Gmail at "Instagram speed", which turns out to be pretty fast. The project started about a year ago as a playful experiment in email interface design and has now become an app that I use daily to get to "inbox zero". If you currently subscribe to the PH email newsletter, I can promise you an especially rad experience. Looking forward to your feedback! Disclaimer: Works with Gmail only; if you use Google Inbox and rely on features like pinning and snoozing, this won't be as useful.

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8yr ago

Niv Dror

VC Puzzle

@hugo_olliphant love it! this is awesome 💌

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8yr ago

Jesse Middleton

Ambition Today - Shahab Kaviani of CoFounders Lab, Breezio, and Hyperoffice

@hugo_olliphant Really cool concept. A couple of requests: 1. It'd be great to customize actions when you scroll. E.g. I use SaneBox so I'd love it to mark as read, remove all labels (including @SaneLater) and then Archive. 2. It'd be great to be able to customize the feed. Again, using SaneBox it'd be great to say only show "Inbox" or "All Mail".

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8yr ago

George Yury Revutsky

Mixery

Been testing this for about an 15 minutes, got through a massive amount of unread email in that time. Love the idea of using the scroll function as something in between a preview and a full-read. Can't wait to see how this product evolves. Nice work @hugo_olliphant!

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8yr ago

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Turn your Gmail into a social feed to read through faster

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