To address your concerns about privacy: we request an OAuth token from Gmail. While this token expires after 1h, we actually use it only once and we never store it anywhere. We analyze your email habits exclusively by looking at metadata, not at the content of emails.
Now, the app is mostly an experiment on email: while most modern communication are shared by default, emails is still completely siloed. We are allowing people to compare their email habits, without, in fact, exposing private information.
And as the NSA revelations have revealed, there's nothing damning in metadata...
I don't mean to be trite, but I'm not giving any auth information to a Show HN any more than I would some random guy on the street.
Don't get me wrong, I'm addicted to inbox zero as much as the next guy/gal, but I achieve inbox zero every day. Never mind the fact that I accomplish this by marking email I deem as irrelevant by the subject line as 'read' without ever reading it.
I'm sure I've inappropriately marked email from people I care about as 'read' without reading it, but I do get a disproportionate volume of email from robots (that belong to me, my company and others), so I view it as acceptable collateral damage.
Show me the source and maybe I'll share my auth tokens.
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To address your concerns about privacy: we request an OAuth token from Gmail. While this token expires after 1h, we actually use it only once and we never store it anywhere. We analyze your email habits exclusively by looking at metadata, not at the content of emails.
Now, the app is mostly an experiment on email: while most modern communication are shared by default, emails is still completely siloed. We are allowing people to compare their email habits, without, in fact, exposing private information.
And as the NSA revelations have revealed, there's nothing damning in metadata...
I don't mean to be trite, but I'm not giving any auth information to a Show HN any more than I would some random guy on the street.
Don't get me wrong, I'm addicted to inbox zero as much as the next guy/gal, but I achieve inbox zero every day. Never mind the fact that I accomplish this by marking email I deem as irrelevant by the subject line as 'read' without ever reading it.
I'm sure I've inappropriately marked email from people I care about as 'read' without reading it, but I do get a disproportionate volume of email from robots (that belong to me, my company and others), so I view it as acceptable collateral damage.
Show me the source and maybe I'll share my auth tokens.
You can check https://frontapp.com/checkup/30c7a55ba3011356dce if you want to see how the results look.