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Pushbullet Blog
Company blog · blog.pushbullet.comproductivityprogramming
Pushbullet Blog is the company blog at blog.pushbullet.com, writing about productivity and programming. Since 2013, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Introducing Pushbullet Pro”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Pushbullet's blog for its posts on Chrome extension safety, a Google review dispute, its 2015 pricing change, and a 2014 universal copy feature. Commenters cite them as background.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Introducing Pushbullet Pro3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-11-17
- /2014/08/20/introducing-universal-copy-and-paste/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-02-18
- We became experts on Google Play Store policy violations2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-27
- Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-13
- Our Chrome Extension Is Safe2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-15
What Hacker News says?
I'd like to know what the number of users that directly used Pushbullet in the last day (or week, or month) over the number of users that have the Android app installed is. If they have it installed, everything they copy to the clipboard on Android is being sent to their servers, is it not? That puts them in the same category as Yahoo! Toolbar for me. At one time Yahoo! Toolbar was useful for a significant percentag…
Comment linking /2014/08/20/introducing-universal-copy-and-paste/
on “Our Chrome Extension Is Safe”Submitted Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension as a story · 1915 points
HN discussionWell this is kind of annoying. They gave out premium to everyone when Pinterest bought them, but now that they are a private company again they took away features from me that I was used to using as a free user. I get why, but it still rubs me the wrong way. Reminds me of the PushBullet monetization stuff[0]. [0] https://blog.pushbullet.com/2015/11/17/introducing-pushbulle...
Comment linking /2015/11/17/introducing-pushbullet-pro/
on “The next ten years of Instapaper”Submitted We became experts on Google Play Store policy violations as a story · 439 points
HN discussionWatch what happens over the next few months to PushBullet - they've learnt the hard way that pricing is serious business. They had a base of users who were used to a free product, then they tried to bring in a $40/year plan with no middle ground. https://blog.pushbullet.com/2015/11/17/introducing-pushbulle... https://www.reddit.com/r/PushBullet/comments/3t5ogz/introduc...
Comment linking /2015/11/17/introducing-pushbullet-pro/
on “Weblog.sh – hosted blogging from the command-line”Submitted Our Chrome Extension Is Safe as a story · 328 points
HN discussionPushbullet has also learned the hard way how to respond to Google's faceless review process: > Now that you know you’re up against an automated policy enforcement AI, your goal is to look as much as possible like the training data. Unfortunately, this can be easier said than done since we do not have access to the training data. > All is not lost, however. You have actionable info in the simple fact that what your a…
Comment linking /2022/10/27/how-we-became-the-worlds-foremost-expert-on-google-play-store-policy-violations/
on “Google Safe Browsing is blocking small Mastodon servers”Submitted PushBullet: From 0 to 15,000 users in 2 weeks as a story · 151 points
HN discussionSimilar story published around the same time as this one... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23168874 ) https://blog.pushbullet.com/2020/05/13/lets-guess-what-googl...
Comment linking /2020/05/13/lets-guess-what-google-requires-in-14-days-or-they-kill-our-extension/
on “Join Chrome Extension in Jeopardy – Google Won’t Tell Me Why – Tasker and Join”Submitted End-to-End Encryption as a story · 46 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.pushbullet.com/2014/08/20/introducing-universal... - blog post about the feature (only official "documentation" on the feature I could find).
Comment linking /2014/08/20/introducing-universal-copy-and-paste/
on “Alt-C: A neat little app to copy text between your device and your PC”Submitted Hello, PushBullet - push anything to your Android phone from your browser as a story · 43 points
HN discussionI'm referring to this one https://blog.pushbullet.com/2020/05/15/our-extension-is-safe...
Comment linking /2020/05/15/our-extension-is-safe/
on “Google has suspended Podcast Addict for having podcasts about Covid 19”Submitted Relying on a Google API and going over the quota on launch day as a story · 37 points
HN discussionPushbullet did it nearly a decade ago[0]. KDE Connect now does it better, and seems to be available on pretty much anything you'd want it on[1]. [0] https://blog.pushbullet.com/2014/08/20/introducing-universal... [1] https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html
Comment linking /2014/08/20/introducing-universal-copy-and-paste/
on “Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative”Submitted Show HN: Portal – Effortlessly transfer files over wifi as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Real-time notification mirroring from Android to your computer as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meet the new Pushbullet as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Push anything from Android to Chrome as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Pushbullet Channels as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Pushbullet Pro as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Universal Messenger as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pushbullet's most material update yet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Closing The Portal App as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Better Android Onboarding Experience as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pushbullet announces Pro. Users go berzerk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reply to Whatsapp, FB, Hangouts and More from Pushbullet as a story · 1 points
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