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Show HN: Our attempt at fixing Google Contacts

28 points by bradmccarty 12y ago

bradmccarty 12y ago
It's a pretty exciting day for us, and we'd love to get your feedback.
- waelawada 12y ago
  It seems like a pretty cool product. But I have google talk on the side for instance. And It is showing under it http://www.screencast.com/t/NaCn9ZYoj http://www.screencast.com/t/NaCn9ZYoj
  - bradmccarty 12y ago
    Out of curiosity, there's a Labs function that you can use to enable right side chat. Would you be using it by chance? http://d.pr/i/1lA4M http://d.pr/i/1lA4M
    - waelawada 12y ago
      yeah.. that is exactly the case. I have the right side labs plugin enabled.
      - lloyddobbler 12y ago
        Update - we've updated the extension to support Gmail Right-Side Chat. To get the new version immediately, you'll need to force an update to the extension. More info: https://twitter.com/FullContactApp/status/545982407137329152 https://twitter.com/FullContactApp/status/545982407137329152
  - bradmccarty 12y ago
    Interesting. We'll take a look at it. Thanks for flagging it up!
- cxmcc 12y ago
  This reminds me of rapportive (acquired by linkedin) back in the days.
  - bradmccarty 12y ago
    For good reason. We love(d) Rapportive before LinkedIn neutered it. But we knew that it could be better.
    - chadkruse 12y ago
      I only use Rapportive for occasional prospecting (e.g. the 'hack' where you keep trying an email combo until the person's LinkedIn profile appears, thus verifying the email address). If this isn't available via your new add-on, would love to see it in there.
- kallekrantz 12y ago
  Just tried it, looks good! However, my main gmail client is currently Google Inbox, do you have any plans of enabling the addon for Inbox in the future?
  - bradmccarty 12y ago
    We're definitely looking at it.
- PeterWhittaker 12y ago
  What are your plans for an Android app, for synching/sharing contacts between gmail and GAE accounts, and for linking to or integrating with social networks? Thanks!
  - bradmccarty 12y ago
    iOS and Mac apps are coming next, while we perfect Android compatibility. We're also working on contact sharing among accounts. It's our biggest request, and we want to make sure it's right. As for social networks, we already integrate with a number of them. What would you like to see?
    - PeterWhittaker 12y ago
      As long as you cover LinkedIn, Facebook, and twitter, I'm good. Then again, GitHub could be good too. Good to hear about contact sharing/syncing. Ideally, I'd contacts added in either my gmail (personal) or my GAE (business) accounts to be available to both [1], and for contacts to be tagged as personal or business depending on where they were added. [1] Right now, they are available to both on my phone (Android), but not on the web. This is a real pain. For historical reasons, the vast majority of my contacts are in my personal gmail account, but there are great many I use primarily in my GAE business account, and quite a few I use in both, depending on why I am conversing with someone (I keep personal and business emails as separate as I possibly can; just the way I like to do things). That level of sharing/syncing is my killer feature. Having said that, I am so used to using Contacts+ for messaging, making phone calls, writing short FB updates, etc., that I would miss those features if I switched to your app.
- dougcorrea 12y ago
  I use https://vibeapp.co https://vibeapp.co that is really good and have client for iOS and android. Is there any comparison chart of vibe vs fullcontact features?
  - bradmccarty 12y ago
    Hey Doug - We love Vibe. It's a great app and carries a lot of the same features. I think that the advantage of using FullContact for Gmail is being able to interact with your FullContact address book, and then automatically sync that information back to your Google Contacts. But ultimately, it's whatever works best for you. We know that the Vibe team shares our passion for making you awesome with people, and we're happy that they're making great products.
    - dougcorrea 12y ago
      thank you for the explanation Brad, actually it´s very useful to also edit contacts directly on fullcontact, very nice feature.
dailen 12y ago
Wow! A Xobni replacement for Gmail!
joshu 12y ago
excellent name.
rdegges 12y ago
I've been using fullcontact for about a year now -- awesome product. The only thing it's missing, IMO, is the ability to automatically pull in all google contacts -- not just the ones in 'My Contacts'. That would be a killer feature. This new Chrome Extension looks super useful =)
- bradmccarty 12y ago
  Stay tuned ;)
kolev 12y ago
I've been using FullContact for over a year and I've been disappointed since then. Very clunky UI, lots of manual work to do. History on contacts that I don't care about and cannot get rid of. The inability to unmerge if you merge by mistake (often due to the slow web UI). After all these years, there's still no good solution that merges and cleans up your contacts! I'm really disappointed! How can we expect great things like AI and be afraid of AI destroying the humanity, when we can't even make contact management work right!
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28 points by bradmccarty 12y ago

bradmccarty 12y ago

It's a pretty exciting day for us, and we'd love to get your feedback.

waelawada 12y ago
It seems like a pretty cool product. But I have google talk on the side for instance. And It is showing under it http://www.screencast.com/t/NaCn9ZYoj http://www.screencast.com/t/NaCn9ZYoj
- bradmccarty 12y ago
  Out of curiosity, there's a Labs function that you can use to enable right side chat. Would you be using it by chance? http://d.pr/i/1lA4M http://d.pr/i/1lA4M
  - waelawada 12y ago
    yeah.. that is exactly the case. I have the right side labs plugin enabled.
    - lloyddobbler 12y ago
      Update - we've updated the extension to support Gmail Right-Side Chat. To get the new version immediately, you'll need to force an update to the extension. More info: https://twitter.com/FullContactApp/status/545982407137329152 https://twitter.com/FullContactApp/status/545982407137329152
- bradmccarty 12y ago
  Interesting. We'll take a look at it. Thanks for flagging it up!
cxmcc 12y ago
This reminds me of rapportive (acquired by linkedin) back in the days.
- bradmccarty 12y ago
  For good reason. We love(d) Rapportive before LinkedIn neutered it. But we knew that it could be better.
  - chadkruse 12y ago
    I only use Rapportive for occasional prospecting (e.g. the 'hack' where you keep trying an email combo until the person's LinkedIn profile appears, thus verifying the email address). If this isn't available via your new add-on, would love to see it in there.
kallekrantz 12y ago
Just tried it, looks good! However, my main gmail client is currently Google Inbox, do you have any plans of enabling the addon for Inbox in the future?
- bradmccarty 12y ago
  We're definitely looking at it.
PeterWhittaker 12y ago
What are your plans for an Android app, for synching/sharing contacts between gmail and GAE accounts, and for linking to or integrating with social networks? Thanks!
- bradmccarty 12y ago
  iOS and Mac apps are coming next, while we perfect Android compatibility. We're also working on contact sharing among accounts. It's our biggest request, and we want to make sure it's right. As for social networks, we already integrate with a number of them. What would you like to see?
  - PeterWhittaker 12y ago
    As long as you cover LinkedIn, Facebook, and twitter, I'm good. Then again, GitHub could be good too. Good to hear about contact sharing/syncing. Ideally, I'd contacts added in either my gmail (personal) or my GAE (business) accounts to be available to both [1], and for contacts to be tagged as personal or business depending on where they were added. [1] Right now, they are available to both on my phone (Android), but not on the web. This is a real pain. For historical reasons, the vast majority of my contacts are in my personal gmail account, but there are great many I use primarily in my GAE business account, and quite a few I use in both, depending on why I am conversing with someone (I keep personal and business emails as separate as I possibly can; just the way I like to do things). That level of sharing/syncing is my killer feature. Having said that, I am so used to using Contacts+ for messaging, making phone calls, writing short FB updates, etc., that I would miss those features if I switched to your app.
dougcorrea 12y ago
I use https://vibeapp.co https://vibeapp.co that is really good and have client for iOS and android. Is there any comparison chart of vibe vs fullcontact features?
- bradmccarty 12y ago
  Hey Doug - We love Vibe. It's a great app and carries a lot of the same features. I think that the advantage of using FullContact for Gmail is being able to interact with your FullContact address book, and then automatically sync that information back to your Google Contacts. But ultimately, it's whatever works best for you. We know that the Vibe team shares our passion for making you awesome with people, and we're happy that they're making great products.
  - dougcorrea 12y ago
    thank you for the explanation Brad, actually it´s very useful to also edit contacts directly on fullcontact, very nice feature.

dailen 12y ago

Wow! A Xobni replacement for Gmail!

joshu 12y ago

excellent name.

rdegges 12y ago

I've been using fullcontact for about a year now -- awesome product. The only thing it's missing, IMO, is the ability to automatically pull in all google contacts -- not just the ones in 'My Contacts'. That would be a killer feature. This new Chrome Extension looks super useful =)

bradmccarty 12y ago
Stay tuned ;)

kolev 12y ago

I've been using FullContact for over a year and I've been disappointed since then. Very clunky UI, lots of manual work to do. History on contacts that I don't care about and cannot get rid of. The inability to unmerge if you merge by mistake (often due to the slow web UI). After all these years, there's still no good solution that merges and cleans up your contacts! I'm really disappointed! How can we expect great things like AI and be afraid of AI destroying the humanity, when we can't even make contact management work right!

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