News.ycers in San Francisco! Want to try out Xobni?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=53019

by gduffy • 19 years ago

25 25 19 years ago

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Over the next few days, we are looking for Outlook users who are interested in trying out Xobni. Our software will bring you email happiness. An NDA is required, we'll pay for your cab ($30 cash), and we'll give you a beer during install.

Please bring a machine with Outlook! We have monitors if you need them for a desktop.

Our office is at 211 Sutter St; San Francisco. Please e-mail info@xobni.com if you'd like to come!

mattculbreth• 19 years ago

Up modded for beer.

uuilly• 19 years ago

While I look forward to Xobni's offerings I wonder how many new.ycers use outlook...

nickb• 19 years ago

Personally, I haven't used Outlook since 2001. That's when I switched to a Mac. Then in 2004 I switched to Gmail. I dislike thick mail clients.

cyggie2• 19 years ago

Probably quite a few... they might not like it, but many are still forced to use it because of their work...

edu• 19 years ago

I use outlook against my will. You know employers often are unreasonable :(

Bad luck I'm on the other side of the world to come to SF!

comatose_kid• 19 years ago

I use outlook 2003, and I think it sucks (about as politely as I can put it), but I have to use it at work.

I live in the Bay Area, but SF is a little to far for a usability study - if you set one up closer to San Jose, I'd be interested in helping out.

walesmd• 19 years ago

I'd love to give it a try... unfortunately, I am down near Santa Barbara. Maybe the next time I am in the bay area (I visit often).

webmaster -at- michaelwales -dot- com

PS: I'm an Outlook user (2K7).

henning3• 19 years ago

OT, but do you really think you'll avoid spammers with cutesy things like "address at domain dot com"? Googling for "(star) (star)at(star) (star) (star)dot(star) com" returns addresses like rasterman |at| rasterman |dot| com, dane AT abetterplacetowork DOT com, and other silly variations that are actually easy to deal with.

Spammers know enough Perl to split by spaces and strip non-alpha characters or whatever you'd need to do to get most of those addresses.

kirubakaran• 19 years ago

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falsestprophet• 19 years ago

Agreed. You folks should checkout http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/. I think it would be smart for sites that allow commenting to include an option for attaching protected email addresses with mailhide.

breck• 19 years ago

Does spam bother people still? I get 150 spam emails a day. But maybe 1 of them gets by Gmail. Even if you use Outlook, why not have your mail routed through a free GMail account first?

henning3• 19 years ago

1) Don't live in San Francisco.

2) You couldn't pay me to use Outlook.

gduffy• 19 years ago

1) Bummer. We'll be available for you soon enough, I hear the Internets go outside SF. :)

2) Lots of people are paid to use Outlook, and we know a lot of them hate it. We want to brighten their day first.

cyggie2• 19 years ago

I'm interested... I actually uses outlook quite heavily (I'm not proud of it... but it gets the job done... :P) so I'd love to see what xobni can do...

gibsonf1• 19 years ago

Wow - I'm there except I finally gave up Outlook for google apps and gmail a month or so ago - bummer. (It's been great not having to use Outlook though)

mgummelt• 19 years ago

I'm moving to the area in a week, so I'd love to, but I also don't use outlook.

electric• 19 years ago

This is odd. I thought most people did not use Outlook.

Even Paul G. says that everyone uses Macs these days?

steveplace• 19 years ago

I love it how the initial knee-jerk reaction is "BOO OUTLOOK!!1"

I see these kinds of comments and I now see the market opportunity for Xobni.

ivankirigin• 19 years ago

Will the tools be available for Outlook/Exchange WebMail? I'm forced to use it today.

vincentliu• 19 years ago

I'd love to go, you guys are just a few streets away from where I live!

But can you accept mutt as a mail client? :P

danielha• 19 years ago

It's cool stuff... definitely worth it if you're an Outlook user.

(I wasn't even paid to write this comment!)

simpleenigma• 19 years ago

I just got back from xobni. The product looks great and the they guys were great to talk to. I can't wait till it gets released and IC an use it on my own PC at home :-)

News.ycers in San Francisco! Want to try out Xobni?

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