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Baydin
Company blog · baydin.com/blogstartupsproductivity
Baydin is the company blog at baydin.com, writing about startups and productivity. Since 2010, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “The $100k Taxi Ride [Oct 2010]”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Baydin's site, the home of the Boomerang email tools, linked on HN for company-history posts such as the 2010 $100k taxi ride story. Most comments discuss the Boomerang products rather than the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Boomerang adds scheduled sending and the easiest, most integrated email reminders to Gmail, helping you reach Inbox Zero.
Most-linked posts?
- /boomerang/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-12
- The $100k Taxi Ride [Oct 2010]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-05
What Hacker News says?
Engineering at Boomerang - Mountain View CA If Lifehacker is your first stop on the Internet in the morning, you have strong opinions (either way) about Inbox Zero, you once wrote an ode to the Pomodoro method, or you've convinced all your friends to use [insert to-do list software or calendar software] or better yet, convinced them all to use Boomerang, we'd love to meet you! We are a fun (we did a workaway in Icel…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)”Submitted The $100K Taxi Ride, One Year Later as a story · 118 points
HN discussionAside: Why have separate domain names for all your products? I didn't even realise you had more than just Boomerang Calendar until I read the other posts in this thread. Even going to the about page, didn't have an obvious link to the list of products ( http://www.baydin.com/ ). Just a link that says "see our other products" would be great.
Comment linking /
on “Show HN: Boomerang Calendar - a smart calendar assistant in your Gmail”Submitted Lessons learned: From 0 to 70,000 downloads in 30 days as a story · 89 points
HN discussionfor those who don't recognize the Baydin[0] brand (I didn't), they're the folks behind Boomerang[1] - which is pretty awesome. [0]: http://www.baydin.com/ [1]: http://www.boomeranggmail.com/ http://www.baydin.com/boomerang/index.html
Comment linking /boomerang/index.html
on “Yahoo acquires Xobni”Submitted Ultimate Guide to managing follow ups after a conference as a story · 48 points
HN discussionAfter entering code: "We've heard things like 'this has totally changed my work life' about Boomerang for Outlook, and we hope you'll have the same experience with Boomerang for Gmail!" For Outlook 2003, 2007, and 2010 it's a 14-day Trial ($14.95 purchase) at http://www.baydin.com/boomerang/ So, not free, but it's available.
Comment linking /boomerang/
on “Gmail plugin that lets send (or receive) email later [invites]”Submitted What Arrested Development and Successful products have in common? as a story · 21 points
HN discussionIf that doesn't work, try this instead: Chrome: http://www.baydin.com/boomerang4gmail/download/boomerangforg... Firefox: http://www.baydin.com/boomerang4gmail/download/boomerangforg...
Comment linking /boomerang4gmail/download/boomerangforgmail-0.1.1.xpi
on “Gmail plugin that lets send (or receive) email later [invites]”Submitted Email Reminder Services – The Ultimate Review as a story · 19 points
HN discussionThe Firefox & Chrome extensions can be found here it appears (via a Scoble tweet): http://www.baydin.com/boomerang4gmail/download/
Comment linking /boomerang4gmail/download/
on “Gmail plugin that lets send (or receive) email later [invites]”Submitted An Email Love Story as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI can't see picture of Michael Chin http://www.baydin.com/about.html are they still in business?
Comment linking /about.html
on “The $100,000 Twitter hitcher: How Baydin got Dave McClure to invest ”Submitted Etacts is shutting down today. Guide to its alternatives. as a story · 7 points
HN discussionOf course! It's one of my favorite parts of the company story! http://baydin.com/blog/2010/10/the-100k-taxi-ride/
Comment linking /blog/2010/10/the-100k-taxi-ride/
on “UberPitch: Google Ventures Investors are On-Demand Wednesday, April 9”Submitted The first time with Boomerang for Gmail… is like a DOUBLE RAINBOW as a story · 6 points
HN discussionBoomerang for Gmail ( http://www.baydin.com/boomerang4gmail/ - currently in beta) works great for this. It's the only tool I'm aware of that lets you send messages at a certain time. See this review for more info: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/26143/send-or-receive-emails-...
Comment linking /boomerang4gmail/
on “Ask: How to postpone Gmail message sending?”Submitted The $100k Taxi Ride [Oct 2010] as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWe just organically added columns as we needed it. That's the magic of using a Spreadsheet :-) Here are the columns we have (with footnotes): Name, Email, Company, Role [1], Intro [2], Rep [3], Last Contact Date, Last Contact Notes, Next Action Date [4], Next Action, Other Notes [1] Profession, job title, info about decision making power, etc. [2] Who/what/why/when of how we were introduced to this person. Useful if…
Comment linking /boomerang/
on “Poll: What CRM do you use at your startup?”Submitted Creating a Quality Mobile Demo Video for $87 / Intern’s Guide to a Free Manicure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tea Shops and a Used School Bus as a story · 1 points
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