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by HarpuaCom 4957 days ago
jorgen - we identify brands for the past 30 days, so if you're an inbox zero person, then you won't have many brands to identify

our first product allowed you to create personal and brand icons - we're not there yet with this one. we hacked it together after going down the stand-alone client path for almost a year

I could write about that experience for days (for all you folks dead set on building a new client)

You can actually use Gmail's native features to hack our product to make it more powerful - i'll be posting about that next week...we also plan to gamify. So much to do, so little time.

Stick with us...

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Thanks for your response. I was just trying to explain why I didn't like it so far, and what I'd love to see. Good to hear you guys are moving forward and implementing new features.

I don't think people would like to create brand icons manually. If I get a lot of e-mails from john.doe@ah.nl, why not running a separate Node.js instance trying to locate the favicon (and using it to display the logo) by trying known locations, or parsing the HTML; http://ah.nl/favicon.ico

The name of the brand might be easy to fetch by doing a WHOIS lookup. Just a thought...