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Hugo Olliphant

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

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gfeed is the best way to scan your Gmail. It works at "Instagram speed", which turns out to be pretty fast. And you'll never believe that your email could look so beautiful.

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Manish Malik
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?
Hugo Olliphant
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.
Manish Malik
@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?
Hugo Olliphant
Maker
@dotmanish Good idea. I'll work on getting a policy in place.
Hugo Olliphant
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.
Niv Dror
@hugo_olliphant love it! this is awesome 💌
Jesse Middleton
@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".
George Yury Revutsky
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!
Adam Posey
This app is sure asking for a lot of access to my data with very few assurances that it’s doing anything to protect it.
Hugo Olliphant
Maker
@trulyadamant cc: @dotmanish This is what I'm thinking. Archived/deleted items purged from the database as soon as they are archived/deleted. Other items purged 30 days after last viewing since they are needed for speedy display. And a "Purge" option in the menu to clear your server-side cache.
Rainbro Michael
Just downloaded
Emmanuel Kaska
LOVE IT! I'd kill the sample emails or at least put a clear indicator that it's an "example" so people aren't confused because I almost closed the app until it finally loaded my emails then I was like ohhhhhh :) :) :) #GottaFrontloadThatAhahMomentBruhh
Hugo Olliphant
Maker
@emmanuel_kaska Great advice. I was thinking it would be better to show the samples before asking you to sign up, with the last card prompting you to connect your Gmail account to get started. Would that work?
Emmanuel Kaska
@hugo_olliphant For sure! You could literally have the images on the text saying: "this is a video email", "this is a picture email", wth the last image having that Call To Action text. You definitely nailed something amazing brother! Totally looking forward to using this! Also I'd love to run a personal project by you to get your feedback.
s i l v e r
doesn't install on my OnePlus2 running LineageOS. do you have apk somewhere i can try? @hugo_olliphant
Leonel More
Brillant idea, good job.
Steven Jacobs
Love the idea but my messages have yet to load. Anyone else experiencing this?
Hugo Olliphant
Maker
@stevenjacobs_ So sorry. Just upgraded the servers, improved the concurrency, etc. Please let me know if you still run into this issue.
Ktryn Dchrs
That is a bold, interesting & neat concept !
Jonathan Wuurman
Hello great job really like the way of working with this visual approach. Little feedback looks you are having sole issues with encoding all the èé ... don't appear 😉
Hugo Olliphant
Maker
@nanth09 Hi Jonathan. Thanks for the feedback. I'll have a look.
Yaron Guez
Don't you get the same result by enabling auto advance in the Gmail app? Swipe left to keep. Hit archive to (wait for it) archive. Not sure what you gain by using another app for email browsing.