[bjansn]

Somehow, and I know it may sound nitpicky, when you make a point about privacy and then require me to 'connect with google' to create an account, doesn't feel good. I'm not that big on privacy, but perhaps this might be an example of a webservice that should provide at least a way to create an account without connecting to any other service (google / facebook etc).

I'd expect a bit more visualization or explanation on what info the e-mail would provide me with.

From my standpoint, someone that works with people with their own schedule spread over different locations this looks useful.

[fenguin]

Thanks for the feedback! Would you feel better if we had a (semi-functioning) demo app for you to play around with before signing up? Since we aggregate information from all your team applications, your email would be empty without connecting at least one account.

[allworknoplay]

I am pretty used to everyone being on google apps, so (selfishly) this isn't a problem for me, although I do agree it probably makes sense to support more options since you're catering to businesses who will probably have specific needs.

However, commenting 'cause this seems awesome, but as per your comment I definitely need more info before I want to sign you up, give you access to all those information sources, and start getting e-mails from you. A demo is pretty complex; just as good to get me started might be (for people who want to dig deeper, not for everyone) an example for each service of the information you can currently summarize and pack into an e-mail. Hell, you could offer to send me a one-time example e-mail so I can actually receive one and see what it'll be like.

[bjansn]

I think the flaw here is that I won't use Google to import data for the email. But would want to connect Basecamp for example. Now I first need to connect Google (for which I have no purpose other than accessing the service) and then connect Basecamp. Doesn't make much sense.

[nickkthequick]

Yeah that's a good point. Although, we don't make it very clear, you can connect your Google account and then opt to only get changes from your Basecamp account. But yes, you would always need to sign in using your Google account. Thanks a lot for the feedback.

[bjansn]

Perhaps create somekind of call to action that's more like this: 'Connect your Basecamp account', they end up by creating a normal account and then after that the first step is to connect their Basecamp account. This gives you a way to learn what webservice people would connect first. But hey, enough ideas. It's all about execution. Good luck!