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Bri Connelly@bricon5 · product @ Google
Hey PH, Bri from the Gboard team here. Gboard is a new iOS keyboard from Google that lets you search and send search results, GIFs, emojis and more, right from your keyboard. We also added Glide Typing (aka gesture typing) so you can type even faster. Check it out at goo.gl/gboard. It’s US only for now, but we have a global update coming shortly. A couple… See more
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Jordy van Gent@jordyvangent · Performance + Growth Marketing
@bricon5 Look great! Can't wait to have it in The Netherlands.
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Bri Connelly@bricon5 · product @ Google
@jordyvangent Glad to hear it. More languages/countries are coming soon!
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Yashendra Shukla@yashendra2797 · Intern, Urban Farming Co.
@bricon5 @jordyvangent Would love an option for metric/celsius 😊 Keyboard is nearly perfect otherwise!
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Bri Connelly@bricon5 · product @ Google
@yashendra2797 @jordyvangent It's coming with our multi lingual release!
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Yashendra Shukla@yashendra2797 · Intern, Urban Farming Co.
@bricon5 @jordyvangent Sweet!
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Stephen D. Vujevich@dejavujevich · Social Media Acct. Exec., Gregory FCA
@bricon5 Bri, tell the team that I just ran around my office showing it to everyone and they love it! GREAT WORK! :)
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Will Monk@willmonk
@bricon5 When might UK support come?
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Harrison Weber@harrisonweber · Executive Editor, VentureBeat
@bricon5 What do you think of Slash (http://tapslash.com/)? It's very similar to Google's app.
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Taylor Barnett@taylor_atx · Developer + Community, Keen IO
@bricon5 Proud of you girl! 🙌💖💪
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Alan Garrec@alangarrec · CoworkerCoffee.com, Montréal
@bricon5 haha "emoji autocorrect"!!! Bet Kanye's wishing he patented his idea now 😉  See more
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Myna Moments@tomflemming · Chance vs Opportunity
@bricon5 do you have any details on privacy and the type of information that's shared, location, cookies, &c. ?
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Bri Connelly@bricon5 · product @ Google
@tomflemming To quote our app store page: What Gboard sends to Google: • When you do a search, Gboard sends your query to Google’s web servers so Google can process your query and send you search results. • Gboard also sends anonymous statistics to Google to help us diagnose problems when the app crashes and to let us know which features are used most ofte… See more
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Bri Connelly@bricon5 · product @ Google
@willmonk As soon as we can get it out the door!
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Myna Moments@tomflemming · Chance vs Opportunity
@bricon5 Thanks Bri.
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Magnus Burton@magnusburton · www.magnusburton.com
@bricon5 when will it be available in Sweden? :(
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Bilal Budhani@bilalbudhani · https://bilalbudhani.me
@bricon5 This looks great. Can't wait to get my hands on it when it will be available in India.
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Damir Dulic@ddulic92 · DevOps Engineer @ ICBTech
@bricon5 I know I am not the first nor the last. But... ANDROID.... Please EDIT: Dec 2016 - YAY :))  See more
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John Mrcd@johnmrcd · Software Developer at DiscoverTec
@bricon5 Great! Looks cool - I had a good first impression.
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Ben Waardenburg@benwubbleyou · Graphic designer
@bricon5 any idea when it comes out in Canada?
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Paul Arterburn@parterburn · Director of Engineering at Unreasonable
@bricon5 Thanks for these tips! I also stumbled across if you've setup Text Suggestions they'll show up in the predictive box (so ignore my emailed suggestion on this). But, for some reason I have "@!" as a keyword setup for my email address and it's not picking it up. Slight bug (maybe?): if GBoard is the only keyboard you have in your iOS settings (i.e. y… See more
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Julie Delanoy@syswarren · Design with @wearetm 😻
Emoji search? I love you. 🙌😍
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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@syswarren I feel bad for people hunting for the right emoji. I've been using @davidkmckinney's Emoji Type for over a year, although it hasn't been updated to include the newer emojis
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Bri Connelly@bricon5 · product @ Google
@rrhoover @syswarren @davidkmckinney Gboard should have all the newest emojis. If we're missing one, let me know and we'll add it.
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Paul Arterburn@parterburn · Director of Engineering at Unreasonable
@syswarren @bricon5 Emojis...ya, but Bitmoji search would be http://bit.ly/1X4H6pu
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David McKinney@davidkmckinney
@rrhoover @syswarren @bricon5 ha! thanks for the shout out Ryan. Gboard is *really* good. Great execution… re: Emoji Type, that was acquired last year, and no longer available 🙊. I like Gboard a lot — super fun combo of features and functionality 😃
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Yonatan Ruback@itsruback
@bricon5 thanks!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Yashendra Shukla@yashendra2797 · Intern, Urban Farming Co.
I would pay anything to get a keyboard that has the features of this, and the autocorrect brilliantness of Fleksy. I have tried so many amazing keyboards, but I always end up switching to Fleksy because typing in it is insanely fast. I love Gboard's features, but developers need to understand something. Predictive text is slow as hell. An swiping is slower t… See more
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Scott Entwistle@scawtent · Founder, Job Ordered
@yashendra2797 I disagree, I can fly much faster with swyping than I can pecking. Swype revolutionized how I used my phone, and since that sucks on iPhone Gboard is a game changer for me
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Gonzalo Nunez@gonz_ponz · My mom downloads apps I make 🙃
This is BRILLIANT. Types exactly like the native keyboard which I'm already very used to, and the added features are extremely useful. Very well executed, and it looks gorgeous. 10/10.
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Bri Connelly@bricon5 · product @ Google
@gonz_ponz 🙌 🙌 🙌 🙌
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Pierre-Marie Galite@tsunaze · entrepreneur, mobile developer/advisor
As a mobile dev, Keyboard flexibility would be really good on Android. Like pasting images directly in the field.
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Juan Buis@juanbuis · internet words
Can we have a icon like the pre-release one for US only products?
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Sam Legge@d0b0 · Product Manager, Thalmic Labs
@juanbuis would be a great feature - tired of trying to find out if products are available north of the border or not.
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Allan Yarmulnik@allany888 · Mobile lead, Talkspace
How does this compare with Slash?
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Yashendra Shukla@yashendra2797 · Intern, Urban Farming Co.
@allany888 Seems better, like more integrated. I've found Slash to be a bit of a hit or miss, but Gboard so far has been giving me perfect results. My opinion might be a bit weird because I'm in India and Foursquare here pales in comparison to Google and Zomato (India's Yelp). This seems like an evolution of Slash. Plus Google's algorithms are ❤️
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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
I love that you named it Gboard, @bricon5. What other names did you consider? Also, nice video:
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Bri Connelly@bricon5 · product @ Google
@rrhoover I wanted BriBoard but the team didn't go for it.
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Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@bricon5 @rrhoover ughhhh 'the rules' 🙄
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August Noble@augustnoble · Digital Marketer / Maker
@bricon5 @rrhoover BriBoard > Gboard
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orliesaurus@orliesaurus · Lasers handler
A hundred startups crying themselves to sleep tonight!  See more
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Jason L. Baptiste@jasonlbaptiste · Founder, Onswipe
@orliesaurus Just like youtube cried itself to sleep with video, twitter did with buzz, spotify did with music, and the list goes on. The "what if Google does it" question is over-rated.
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Blake Robbins@blakeir · VC at Ludlow Ventures
@jasonlbaptiste @orliesaurus It's especially over-rated when others have had a year or two head-start.
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Olivier Plante@oplante · CEO, Thingthing Keyboard @thingthingapp
@blakeir @jasonlbaptiste @orliesaurus yeah if Google would do everything, then I stay in bed all day but it's not the case! We're building our product and here to stay!
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orliesaurus@orliesaurus · Lasers handler
@oplante @blakeir @jasonlbaptiste That's the spirit keyboard-apps warriors! don't let google eat your dreams!
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Olivier Plante@oplante · CEO, Thingthing Keyboard @thingthingapp
@orliesaurus @blakeir @jasonlbaptiste you rock!
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Johnny Hill@thejohnnyhill
@orliesaurus That's not necessarily a bad thing. It should only drive those startups to make better products. I know I personally have tried at least 3 other gif keyboards now, and haven't been able to use a single one of them as a functional keyboard. On first try, this one seems just as good (if not better) than the native keyboard.
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orliesaurus@orliesaurus · Lasers handler
@thejohnnyhill same tbh, i tried for a week different ones that I wont mention because I am nice! ...but freezes, crashes and not having the swipe functionality made me uninstall .. I hope this motivates more fellow product makers to step their game up - and start replying to feedback tweets/emails too ;)
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Cem Kozinoglu@cemkozinoglu · CEO/Founder @SlashKeyboard
@orliesaurus who is sleeping? 😉 wait few weeks and see what we are about to come up with. Google did an awesome job, we just have to do better or go home, rules of the game.
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Johnny Hill@thejohnnyhill
@cemkozinoglu @orliesaurus while you're here, I will say that Slash is definitely one of the better keyboards out right now. I love just how many services it brings into one keyboard, it's pretty brilliant. The thing that killed it for me was the autocorrect—unlike the native iOS keyboard, Slash was trying to correct all my made-up words that iOS natively re… See more
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Cem Kozinoglu@cemkozinoglu · CEO/Founder @SlashKeyboard
@thejohnnyhill @orliesaurus I agree and we are working right and left to fix that, also adding contextual suggestions in our next release to your Connected services ;) Imagine Spotify, or Dropbox, Instagram or Google Drive files are now a part of your search? Really close dropping this new version. In terms of number of services, this release will finally co… See more
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Johnny Hill@thejohnnyhill
@cemkozinoglu Fair enough, sounds like there's some good stuff in the works! I'll be sure to give it another shot when it gets updated!
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orliesaurus@orliesaurus · Lasers handler
@cemkozinoglu and @oplante u guys should work close one to another :)
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Jay Hack@_jayhack_ · Student
@orliesaurus @oplante @blakeir @jasonlbaptiste those brave, brave founders making apps for sharing gifs via keyboards.
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Olivier Plante@oplante · CEO, Thingthing Keyboard @thingthingapp
@orliesaurus or not ;)
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orliesaurus@orliesaurus · Lasers handler
@oplante haha c etait une bonne blague... just a prank bro
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Özgür Celebi@tristancelebi · iOS Developer
@orliesaurus Yeah your right! Gboard is the keyboard to rule them all ;)
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Olivier Plante@oplante · CEO, Thingthing Keyboard @thingthingapp
@orliesaurus clair hehe ;)
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Ryan Abrams@ryabrams · Founder, ABR Media Group
@blakeir @jasonlbaptiste @orliesaurus Head starts are overrated when talking about a startup going up against the Big G and their engineering team, budget and distribution capabilities.
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Jackie Luo@jackiehluo · Engineer, Nylas
@cemkozinoglu 👏
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Daniel Klose@kloseline · Former HW Project Manager - Now Coffee
@jasonlbaptiste a startup based on a keyboard is overrated...
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Andy Kinsella@deleted-204006 · Google
Is it cool to upvote my OWN thing? Super happy with this.
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James Brooks@jbrooksuk · Founder, Alt Three
Looks really nice! Thanks @bricon5. Out of interest, why is it that a lot of keyboard apps (Microsoft Word Flow) and now Gboard are US only?
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Bri Connelly@bricon5 · product @ Google
@jbrooksuk It really comes down to the fact that keyboard layouts/dictionaries take a while to get right - we're still working on improving the quality of our other languages.
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Andrew Palmer@andrew_palmer
@bricon5 @jbrooksuk What about Canada? I imagine the layout/dictionaries would be the same as the US.
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Bri Connelly@bricon5 · product @ Google
@andrew_palmer @jbrooksuk We found that there were enough noticeable differences in spelling/use of words, and we didn't want to offer a subpar experience to our Canadian brothers and sisters.
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Alec B@yourboybigal · Full Stack Engineer
@bricon5 🙏
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Jerome Dahdah@parasight · Digital nomad, minimalist, designer.
@bricon5 This is interesting. Will multi-language be able to automatically recognize the language I'm typing in (the way SwiftKey does it) or will I need to manually switch between languages?
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Tom Bielecki@tombielecki · Cofounder, PrintToPeer
@bricon5 @andrew_palmer @jbrooksuk just ship it with a "sorry" and we'll all accept the differences
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Sjoerd Janssen@sjoerdjanssenen · Backend developer
Sorry for the double post.
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Sjoerd Janssen@sjoerdjanssenen · Backend developer
Is this the place where Now on Tap will live on iOS? Or do you think there's another, better place for Now on Tap?
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Daryl@darylthetwit · Front End Dev / Colouring in Man
Guessing this is US only for the moment? Is there a release schedule for other countries?
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Bri Connelly@bricon5 · product @ Google
@darylthetwit Yeah, US only for now. Except to see more languages/country support in the near future.
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JG@jerg5
@bricon5 any plans for additional color themes such as dark mode?
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Paul Gosnell@paulgosnell · Founder @ http://beehive.digital
@bricon5 @darylthetwit any timeframes for other countries? UK?
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Andrew Palmer@andrew_palmer
Not available in Canada? :(
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Bri Connelly@bricon5 · product @ Google
@andrew_palmer I know, super sorry about that. Coming very soon though.
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Andrew Palmer@andrew_palmer
@bricon5 That's okay. No need to apologize though :)
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Philippe Dame@pdame · COO, Ramius Corporation
@bricon5 Great to hear!
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mauriyouth@mauriyouth
Awesome! have been looking forward for this, what about android support
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Bri Connelly@bricon5 · product @ Google
@mauriyouth Working on the best way to bring the same functionality to Android right now!
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mauriyouth@mauriyouth
@bricon5 nice work indeed :)
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Nate@xnutsive · CEO at Amplifr
@bricon5 @mauriyouth what do you have in mind, a new keyboard, or an update for vanilla Google Keyboard? ;-)
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Evan Petrack@petrev01 · People Researcher; Loves GIS & Data
@bricon5 thank you! Because I mean....little sad this didn't come with android support first. Womp womp =(
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Mordo de Maru@mordodemaru · PMM @ lang.ai | Product Hunt Madrid
@bricon5 @mauriyouth sweet! Not trying to have your strategy unveiled but, why release it first on iOS?
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Alexx Foxx@alexxfoxxuk · Co - Founder @ Studio Amplify
ooo, I want to play with it! When's it coming to the UK?!
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Bri Connelly@bricon5 · product @ Google
@alexxfoxxuk As quick as we can get it out the door!
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Alexx Foxx@alexxfoxxuk · Co - Founder @ Studio Amplify
@bricon5 Is it push or pull? I'm trying to pull it my side!
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chris@chrisdolle
This looks great -- so since you guys went with Gboard, do you think you might convince the Google Calendar team to go with GCal as their app name now, so it doesn't get truncated into Google Cal... ?
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micah rich@micahbrich · Founder of The League of Moveable Type
This is the first great keyboard I've installed. Ten times more productive than the normal keyboard, but still looks visually like it belongs in iOS. Fantastic work.
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Johnny Hill@thejohnnyhill
@micahbrich Agreed—this is my fourth Gif keyboard now, and I'm reeeeally hoping it's my last...
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Kai Burghardt@kaiburghardt · Founder, Engineer, Product Guy
And i am just sitting here in germany and crying about the "item is not available" message :(
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Bri Connelly@bricon5 · product @ Google
@kaiburghardt I pinkie promise it's on the way.
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