Slash commands should be standardized. From Slack to Mixmax, the command line is showing up in more and more text-entry apps... To train users to be more powerful, the commands should work similarly between apps. IMHO.
@chrismessina Would love to explore this idea further. To some extent we've seen that with the command line, eg., I have a pretty good expectation of what /me will do no matter what client I'm using. Gets a bit trickier when we think about the new wave of / commands, which in our case often involves company APIs on the other end. But agree: the more "/" becomes a consistent unit of meaning across products, the better. We've seen it with #, @. / is next
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@chrismessina Never heard of MixMax. I already use Slack. Is it similar? I'll check it out.
Simple type "/contacts" to share contacts from your phone, "/gifs" to send a (you guessed it) GIF, and more. Really cool concept, especially when switching apps to find and share these things on the iPhone is inefficient.
Side note: Custom keyboards, introduced in iOS 8, are like mini apps that can be used inside of other apps. This opens up several possibilities but Apple's execution is a bit disappointing. It's cumbersome to switch keyboards, especially if you have 3 or more installed.
@rrhoover yup. Apple 3rd party keyboard integration is broken. it is really frustrating. this one reminds me of @thingthing
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@rrhoover been testing for awhile and its pretty rad; as u mentioned apple still hasnt figured out how to make the experience smooth and therefore i find myself using it less.
Hi all! Thanks for your awesome support and feedback. We built Slash Keyboard because finding and sharing things on mobile is really hard. The App landscape means downloading a bunch of apps that each have their own take on search, and usually don't do a great job of talking to each other.
We realized the keyboard is really the only thing that sits perfectly between the OS and every app. It's the interface for expressing intentions. It's basically the perfect place to build a search engine.
We hope you enjoy the Slashes we've built so far, and would love to hear your requests for what to build next. And as you poke around, we hope you start to uncover the intention engine that's the core of our product. Talk about coffee, or say "I'm at," or do math... and you'll see the real magic of Slash. We're building an inline intelligence that supercharges our everyday conversations.
@nsbarr Since you asked for requests, we'd like to integrate NewsGIF with Slash. NewsGIFs are already great conversation pieces, but a news feed built right into a keyboard makes a lot sense to us. I like your implementation a lot.
tried a LOT of keyboards. way too many in fact. slash is far and away the strongest with applications to much larger than *just* a keyboard. and it's the slickest (and first) integration of Giphy for Keyboard i've seen.
great job to the slash team!
@adamcl Giffage is an extremely strong (and incredibly designed) keyboard with Giphy integration in my opinion. Slash is cool in that it uses different integrations like Slack
Really well done. Did your use SF font?
My favorite feature so far is that fucking is suggested instead of autocorrrected away. (Apple seems to prefer an ultra PC keyboard)
@hegranes hey hey, thanks! :) yeah autocorrect is an ongoing iterative deal. We will be improving it a ton in next iterations . We used Avenir Next.
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I love the concept, but I'm still a bit iffy on giving 3rd party keyboards unfettered access to everything I type. Can you give any insight into how @slashkeyboard works, and how my privacy is being protected?
@andrewtlove Hey Andrew, great question. Our prediction engine works locally and under 20ms. We don't send your keystrokes to our servers. Only thing that hits to our servers are your search queries so we can surface you with results from the service /slash command you picked. here is a blog post on more details around what we do and how we do; https://medium.com/slash-keyboar...
Love this thing. Been waiting for this for a long time. Wondering if you guys are going to add the dutch language? (could be a cool business model: foreign languages as in app purchases).
Also a desktop app would be cool too :).
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