Show HN: Our attempt at fixing Google Contacts

https://www.fullcontact.com/gmail/

by bradmccarty • 12 years ago

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bradmccarty8• 12 years ago

It's a pretty exciting day for us, and we'd love to get your feedback.

waelawada2• 12 years ago

It seems like a pretty cool product. But I have google talk on the side for instance. And It is showing under it http://www.screencast.com/t/NaCn9ZYoj

bradmccarty8• 12 years ago

Interesting. We'll take a look at it. Thanks for flagging it up!

bradmccarty8• 12 years ago

Out of curiosity, there's a Labs function that you can use to enable right side chat. Would you be using it by chance?

http://d.pr/i/1lA4M

cxmcc• 12 years ago

This reminds me of rapportive (acquired by linkedin) back in the days.

bradmccarty8• 12 years ago

For good reason. We love(d) Rapportive before LinkedIn neutered it. But we knew that it could be better.

kallekrantz• 12 years ago

Just tried it, looks good! However, my main gmail client is currently Google Inbox, do you have any plans of enabling the addon for Inbox in the future?

bradmccarty8• 12 years ago

We're definitely looking at it.

PeterWhittaker2• 12 years ago

What are your plans for an Android app, for synching/sharing contacts between gmail and GAE accounts, and for linking to or integrating with social networks?

Thanks!

bradmccarty8• 12 years ago

iOS and Mac apps are coming next, while we perfect Android compatibility. We're also working on contact sharing among accounts. It's our biggest request, and we want to make sure it's right. As for social networks, we already integrate with a number of them. What would you like to see?

dougcorrea2• 12 years ago

I use https://vibeapp.co that is really good and have client for iOS and android. Is there any comparison chart of vibe vs fullcontact features?

bradmccarty8• 12 years ago

Hey Doug -

We love Vibe. It's a great app and carries a lot of the same features. I think that the advantage of using FullContact for Gmail is being able to interact with your FullContact address book, and then automatically sync that information back to your Google Contacts. But ultimately, it's whatever works best for you. We know that the Vibe team shares our passion for making you awesome with people, and we're happy that they're making great products.

dailen• 12 years ago

Wow! A Xobni replacement for Gmail!

joshu• 12 years ago

excellent name.

rdegges• 12 years ago

I've been using fullcontact for about a year now -- awesome product. The only thing it's missing, IMO, is the ability to automatically pull in all google contacts -- not just the ones in 'My Contacts'.

That would be a killer feature.

This new Chrome Extension looks super useful =)

bradmccarty8• 12 years ago

Stay tuned ;)

kolev• 12 years ago

I've been using FullContact for over a year and I've been disappointed since then. Very clunky UI, lots of manual work to do. History on contacts that I don't care about and cannot get rid of. The inability to unmerge if you merge by mistake (often due to the slow web UI). After all these years, there's still no good solution that merges and cleans up your contacts! I'm really disappointed! How can we expect great things like AI and be afraid of AI destroying the humanity, when we can't even make contact management work right!

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