This is a really big deal. Remember the release of iOS? Remember the release of the Facebook API? This is amazing. InboxSDK actually makes it possible to write easily write apps that work great natively with Gmail, one of the largest untapped greenfield platforms in the world. Over 1 billion active users — it's how business is done. It's how people communicate.
The Streak team has basically made available the special sauce that made Streak CRM awesome. I can't wait to see what people build with it.
@garrytan This is awesome. We've been wanting to do a @goroost integration into gmail so people don't have to switch over to our dashboard to manage pushes and see basic analytics. Been too daunting and required too many resources to tackle on our own, with this it's back on our dev list!
@garrytan the release of the facebook api was in summer 2006. most people probably don't remember it - it was virtually unnoticed. (here's a TC article with coverage: http://techcrunch.com/2006/08/15...). the big deal was when apps started getting distribution through the API (in 2007).
this seems cool but i think the analogy might be exaggerated, since they don't appear to have an answer for distribution.
If you've ever built something on top of Gmail you'll realise how useful this is. Gmail is such a rich product, and everyone uses it differently. Also DOM elements change all the time so you need to keep patching your code. Everyone has a Gmail tab open 24/7 anyway, so it's a great place for new products to be.
Well, this is awesome. In about 5 minutes (after a quick read of the excellent docs) I was able to create an "Intro BCC Button" which I have wanted in Gmail for years and years. It moves the Intro-er from To -> BCC and the Intro-ee from CC -> To and automatically inserts "(XX to BCC)" in the body of the reply. I can't tell you how many times I've had to do this manually and how nice it is to have a button that just does it automatically. Here is a tweet with screenshots: https://twitter.com/jazzychad/st...
Nice work, Streak team!!
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I'm a long time Streak user, the team behind InboxSDK and can't wait to see what devs do with the webmail experience.
Question: Will this be a consumer marketplace or more for enterprises to build apps for their own teams? @garrytan@aloo
@mckaythomas we think both types of apps can thrive. We have several internal apps here at streak that we use daily but the Dropbox for Gmail app that was built using the SDK has wide consumer appeal.
Longer term we hope to build an appstore inside of gmail for gmail apps. It owuld host both internal and public apps...
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@aloo An App Store for gmail. So many people taking about how to solve email and the answer might just be simply turning it in to a platform. Exciting!
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