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by xpressyoo 4045 days ago
Great job and initiative! Gmelius Founder here. A few questions:

i) Are you planning to make the whole implementation Open Source?

ii) Say I wish to adopt and use your SDK in my current Gmail/Inbox extensions (>100K daily users), may I expect the implementation of a fixed upper limit on the number of transmissions in the coming months (which could endanger the reliability of my service for my users)?

iii) While the SDK currently only focuses on the UI, are you planning to add more "complex" interactions, such as Gmail filters/Gmail preferences ? If yes, feel free to get in touch. I will be happy to help.

Congrats, again.

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i) Our long term plan is to do so, but not in the immediate term.

ii) The SDK loads a static JS file so we aren't really worried about having a lot of users requesting that. We're hosting the SDK on appengine so I wouldn't expect any caps on users or anything like that. Dropbox has a ~500K weekly actives (as you can see from the chrome webstore: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dropbox-for-gmail-...) using it and I expect that to grow.

iii) can you describe the use case a bit more? Specifically are you looking to get the set of filters or add new ones or both? On the preferences side, are you looking to add your own? We have this functionality in Streak but haven't yet ported it over to the SDK (but will soon)