r/Android • u/guzba PushBullet Developer • Jul 16 '15
We are the Pushbullet team, AMA!
Edit: And we are done! Thanks a lot of talking with us! We didn't get to every question but we tried to answer far more than the usual AMA.
Hey r/android, we're the Pushbullet team. We've got a couple of apps, Pushbullet and Portal. This community has been big supporters of ours so we wanted to have a chance to answer any questions you all may have.
We are:
/u/treeform, website and analytics
/u/schwers, iOS and Mac
/u/christopherhesse, Backend
/u/yarian, Android app
/u/monofuel, Windows desktop
/u/indeedelle, design
/u/guzba, browser extensions, Android, Windows
For suggestions or bug reports (or to just keep up on PB news), join the Pushbullet subreddit.
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u/super_cr7 Jul 16 '15
I wanted to let you know that I use Pushbullet everyday and can't tell you how much it has made my life simpler! Thanks a lot!
I wanted to know if you guys are open for an aquihire-of-sorts by (Google maybe)?
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u/guzba Jul 16 '15
Glad to hear you're loving PB, really. As far as an acquihire-of-sorts, well, if you really like PB, that might not be such a good thing. Those often imply the product being killed and the team working on something else :/
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u/super_cr7 Jul 16 '15
That's true too. Didn't think it from this angle. Hope you guys remain strong and keep innovating! Thanks again for PB!
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u/Defaulty7 Jul 16 '15
How was your breakfast this morning?
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u/iWizardB Jul 16 '15
Reddit took venture funding and needed to make profit to appease investors. They tried to monetize the AMA, fucked up big time and faced epic backlash, to inappropriate proportion. PushBullet got some funding and also needs to make profit. Did you learn anything from backlash reddit faced and do you foresee anything like that in PB's future?
P.S. - I'm not saying PB shouldn't monetize. Of course it should and it will. My question is geared towards whether Reddit incident effected their strategy / plans.
P.S 2 - When can I see bulk delete option for old pushes?
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u/guzba Jul 16 '15
Reddit is actually a pretty personal issue for us. 5 of the 7 of us worked together at Hipmunk, the company u/spez started after leaving reddit. He's a big supporter of ours and we all really respect and look up to him. The fact that he's back as CEO of reddit should make everyone feel much better about where reddit is headed, I say this knowing him personally.
Pushbullet did take venture funding which does mean we have certain expectations. We've taken seed funding, which is the earliest and smallest (relative) amount of investment. The goal of taking this investment was to be able to focus on our product to prove that we could make it useful to a larger audience. This made sense because we've been growing as an app with far more success than "normal".
Getting Pushbullet to the point it can support itself (monetize) clearly will need to happen. Fortunately we have at least one obvious strategy, which is freemium. This is where much of our app is free, and the rest comes with a pro account or similar. As a productivity app, this is a natural fit and doesn't betray any of the work we've done so far. I'm sure we will be upset if we begin to charge for features, but I don't think it will cause people to be quite as much as reddit has managed to upset people.
To your P.S 2 - you can clear your entire history here: https://www.pushbullet.com/#settings/history, we're bringing multi-select back on Android, and I think deleting per stream would be great too.
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u/iWizardB Jul 16 '15
My experience is - if a product is free for a long time and later charges for something/anything, people go apeshit and treat it like "bait n switch". PB is so popular, I'm willing to bet at least half of your userbase will fit that bill. Entitlement. I hope you guys find a balanced solution.
The link for delete will delete entire history. What I was requesting is selective bulk deletion. For example, delete all pushes from certain channel and certain person. OR select all pushes from this device, other than this-this-this push (i.e. select all and then tap-tap-tap to deselect a few) and delete them.
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u/dlerium Jul 16 '15
Gmail has been free, but you can pay for more storage. The point is free should be setup to give you a reasonable product especially if the product was once ONLY free. If you add paid tiered services, you need to make sure people aren't feeling like they must upgrade or that's the only way to get a decent experience.
That's why freemium games like Clash of Clans do so well, whereas the other ones where you desperately need IAP to even play effectively fall flat. People need to enjoy the experience without feeling that big of a drive to make purchases. Some still will, but its a careful balance the developer needs to find.
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u/mudclog Jul 16 '15 edited Dec 01 '24
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u/Natanael_L Jul 16 '15 edited Jul 16 '15
For freemium, may I suggest free pushes but paid hosting, i.e. if I want to share a file over a certain size with an offline device I need you to host it, rather than having the app talk P2P to the device it is sending it to. Same for bandwidth if you can't send P2P but need to relay via your server, getting high bandwidth for relay could be a premium service.
Just don't make the free level so strict that people don't care to stick around.
I suppose you could also have promoted channels, as long as you do not make them enabled by default!
I agree with this guy: http://www.reddit.com/r/android/comments/3div04/we_are_the_pushbullet_team_ama/ct5knvq
Make the paid tiers feel like they add something, don't make it feel like something was taken away.
Edit: also paid SLA contracts for dedicated servers to ensure rapid delivery of important messages, intended for things like companies that often need to push important information quickly to their employees. Uptime and latency guarantees would be offered on contract.
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u/shiruken Jul 16 '15
Make the pro account offer end-to-end encryption. You'll silence all the haters and make money off them at the same time.
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u/Natanael_L Jul 16 '15
That should be available to everybody to begin with. I'm definitely no hater, but I'm very security conscious.
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u/gophercuresself Jul 16 '15
Seriously? And you base that on the fact that they worked for someone you presumably have issues with?
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u/StovetopLuddite Jul 16 '15
First off: You guys are a fantastic team and thank you for all of your work!
Question: Besides Pushbullet, when you were trying to think of a name for the app, what were some close runner-ups?
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u/guzba Jul 16 '15
I was originally calling Pushbullet "PushBulletin" -- because you could push things into your notification tray as though it were a bulletin board. Yep. I even bought the domain pushbullet.in to be clever. Then I realized Pushbullet was just a better name, and shorter.
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u/rpr69 Jul 16 '15
Too bad Ethiopia doesn't do a straight sub-domain, otherwise pushbull.et would be cool.
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u/iWizardB Jul 16 '15
I'm pretty sure PushIt was in a shortlist. Then someone's dirty mind started buzzing and they had to drop it. :P
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u/Frank2312 Jul 16 '15
Last week, I went on your subreddit and asked this question
Here is a copy of it :
As of the last update of the Windows app, when I click a notification of a link I pushed myself, it opens the pushbullet application and then I must click the link.
It gets pretty annoying if I sent a ton of links doing some research on my phone to read again later on my desktop/laptop.
Could it be possible to restore the old behavior, which was that when I click the notification, it opens up the link instead of the app?
Thanks for making this great app btw :)
Would it be possible to have a follow-up?
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u/guzba Jul 16 '15
I've tried this repeatedly and am not having this happen. Makes it really hard to fix since I can't reproduce it. Any chance you could record a little screen recording of it? That'd make a huge difference so I could see the details of what's going on. (Or a few screenshots!)
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u/Frank2312 Jul 16 '15
Here is a video of the "bug". Also, there are annotations in the video, so make sure they are on. They add a small description of what I'm doing.
Also paging u/monofuel since he responded to me earlier as well and is apparently the one in charge of the Windows Desktop app.
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u/guzba Jul 17 '15
Awesome, this video really helps. Just tried that and I'm still not seeing the same behavior, however there's clearly an issue. We will determine what's up and get it fixed.
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u/monofuel Jul 16 '15
I've tested this myself with the desktop app, and links sent to 'me' open up as links when i click the notification. However this only works if there is only one link in the notification.
Is the version of pushbullet on the phone you're sending from up to date?
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u/Frank2312 Jul 16 '15
Thanks for the reply.
I will check this out in a few hours once I'm back home to check if it works as before and will report back.
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u/Frank2312 Jul 16 '15
I have tested using multiple apps, using the Share intent on the latest Android app, and the notification opens up the Windows Desktop app (v. 350) instead of the link.
Apps tested : Chrome for Android and Relay for Reddit
I have also tried pushing using the chrome extention and it has the same effect.
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u/monofuel Jul 17 '15
We've found a case where the links from other devices aren't clickable, it should be fixed in a future update!
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u/tjharman Jul 16 '15
With the new SMS feature, are our SMSes stored on your servers? If so, are they encrypted? Can you read them?
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u/monofuel Jul 16 '15
All communications with pushbullet are encrypted through SSL. SMS is handled special, as the browser and desktop apps fetch the history directly from your device. we don't store anything SMS related. This is why there is a delay when loading your contacts and chat history for SMS.
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u/XelaSiM Jul 16 '15
I'm have a problem with loading chat history for sms... Only new texts are showing up. IS there a way to load up all my conversations?
I have tried deleting the app and extension as well as restarting both devices. Anything I can do?
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u/PT2JSQGHVaHWd24aCdCF Jul 16 '15
Yes they can read your SMS but they try to hide it by saying stuff like SSL which only covers the transport of data to their servers. They can do whatever they want with your data because they have not implemented end-to-end encryption and don't want to.
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Jul 16 '15
I don't know if you are right or not, but I certainly got the feeling the question wasn't answered fully. Sounded a bit like a politician.
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u/LearnsSomethingNew Jul 16 '15
they have not implemented end-to-end encryption and don't want to
I think the one obvious reason for this behavior (if you follow the money) is that a large portion of their valuation in all likelihood is tied to their ability to access this type of data in a clean fashion. I am not saying that they are doing anything nefarious with it, but I can see why a VC would be super interested in them if they can promise the ability to mine such personal data from millions of users sometime in the future.
Now, that's not saying E2EE will take away their ability to do this - they could announce tomorrow that they've implemented E2EE (without actually doing anything, and without open-sourcing their client or the API, thus giving anyone no way of independently verifying this), and a large portion of the userbase will be satisfied (mostly on the argument that if you can't trust them on this claim, you can't trust them on anything and so you shouldn't be using it in the first place). But imagine the shitshow if any evidence of this behavior leaks out. If I'm Pushbullet, it's better for me to never claim to have E2EE in the first place if I'm really interested in preserving access to this sort of user data, since it gives me an ethical out. And given Pushbullet's popularity, a sizable part of this community is very happy with the status quo, and will continue to use the service in this current fashion.
If I'm a Pushbullet dev, there is absolutely no benefit to me for me commit to implementing E2EE if I'm not willing to truly give up access to the userdata flowing through my servers. There aren't many other ways to argue around this, I think. Now if you as an user are okay with this, well, more power to you.
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u/Phreakhead Jul 17 '15
Do you use Facebook? Gmail? SMS? None of those have end-to-end encryption. I don't see why everyone dumps on Pushbullet for this when none of the other, bigger, scarier companies do it either.
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u/user899121 Jul 16 '15
Is tablet sms like you guys did with desktops going to be a thing?
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u/bmengineer Jul 16 '15
Please say yes...
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u/treeform Jul 16 '15
No. Well do you mean reply with SMS through your phone on the tablet? That is not on our road map, but is often requested and is in our minds.
The SMS enabled tablets should work though, if tablet can send SMS.
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u/TheKingOfBeat Jul 16 '15
First off I would like to say how much I have loved Pushbullet. Have been using it for quick a while and even shown it to friends and family. My question is now that you have full sms integration where do you see going forward?
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u/guzba Jul 16 '15
I know this is the Android subreddit so it's not terribly exciting, but one thing I think we have a lot of opportunity on iOS. I want to make iOS and Windows 10 work together for notifications like we've made Android work with all platforms. (Right now iOS only works with our Mac app).
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u/TheKingOfBeat Jul 16 '15
Yeah I would also agree that by adding other platforms would benefit the progress of Pushbullet. Kind of was shock to hear it wasn't already available. Thank you so much for responding
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Jul 16 '15
I think the next steps are MMS support and perhaps improving it to be a bit faster (it's about five seconds now, we can probably shave a few seconds more off).
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u/PantherCoffee72 Jul 16 '15
First of all, love it. Can't live without it.
But now that most Androids are on Lollipop with material design, do you have any plans to update desktop notifications with circles instead of a square icon?
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u/treeform Jul 16 '15
Yeah, we are constantly looking to update the look of things. Normally it happens when we touch the area for some other reason though. So if we redo the notifications we might update the design. But honestly we have not though about round vs square until now.
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u/soapinmouth Jul 16 '15 edited Jul 16 '15
Just want to say thank you guys, and not to worry too much about the privacy freaks, they are a VERY vocal minority. I would probably be pretty frustrated in your position.
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u/charliearthur1911 Jul 16 '15
First off, I have been a PB supporter since the early days and I love the progress you all have made. Especially happy for all the Android-oriented updates that have come. Your recent SMS update is a MightyText killer hands down. iOS usually gets all the great features first so this is a great change up. Second, trying to leave Hangouts altogether, any plans to integrate native emojis into the SMS and People sections? What about MMS support?
Keep up the great work.
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u/guzba Jul 16 '15
I'm super happy with our SMS update. That came together really quickly since it built on top of much of the other work we've done recently so it was a very fun project.
Emoji is a tricky one--some browsers / OS support it already and other support is coming along (Mac is ahead here). It's not something we entirely control.
MMS support is a tricky one and I need to learn more about it before I can say what is and isn't possible. Certainly want support it if we can though.
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u/charliearthur1911 Jul 16 '15
You're very correct in your statements and I knew it was a shot in the dark since PB relies on the browser while Hangouts is it's own app outside of the browser. I'm happy either way and have been able to pull friends over to PB due to the features and ease.
Not sure if it's been asked but any plans for group threads under People and/or SMS? Where can I donate? You all deserve a round of drinks on me.
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Jul 16 '15
since PB relies on the browse
They released a standalone windows app.
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u/charliearthur1911 Jul 16 '15
Nice! Just installed it now. I like the design but I don't see any benefits over the Chrome extension or webapp at this point. I'll revisit it later as it comes out of beta. Thanks.
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u/drbeer Jul 16 '15
Now that MMS appears to be be "apart" of Pushbullet, I am a little concerned that all my MMS photos are copied to Pushbullet, with a URL accessible to anyone.
I understand this is a somewhat normal practice (Google Photos, as a recent example) and that these URLs are long and likely difficult to guess, but a lot of people's MMS's are private. The sender of an MMS doesn't expect their image to be uploaded to the internet, by default, at a public URL. I also imagine Google may have better resources to detect a machine scraping for these URLs better than a smaller team like Pushbullet.
Do you plan to address this or enable a setting to disable MMS's showing up in the Pushbullet plugin?
I love your software and it makes my life easier - but I do have concerns, would love to hear your take.
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u/treeform Jul 16 '15
The SMS support is optional right now. You can disable it, its kind of confusing place (we will make it better) by going to the Android's app settings, notifications, only for some apps, disable texting. That should be it. We should add an option to disable photos specifically outside of texting.
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u/drbeer Jul 16 '15
Would love an option for disabling MMS - please! Again, I just don't think its fair to upload them, by default, as many senders would not appreciate that.
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u/neths Jul 16 '15
yeah, I love pushbullet but I'm going to have to disable it until I have the option to disable MMS/pictures, if I'm at work and my friend sends me a dank meme that comes up with my boss nearby...
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Jul 16 '15
Yeah, the thing that scares me most about this is that it's a public URL and you don't have a say in whether or not they get uploaded.
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u/SirPribsy Jul 16 '15 edited Jul 17 '15
a public URL is actually extremely secure if it's a randomized string of characters, and the string can't be tied to some pattern linking to you or your other photos. It's the same thing Google Photos does.
*Edit - OK maybe it's only extremely secure if there's also a monitor that keeps track of access and flags/blocks brute force attempts that access many photos across multiple accounts in quick succession. Not sure Pushbullet has the resources to do this.
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u/The_MAZZTer Jul 16 '15
I assume the problem is that the recipient could be using ANY SMS app, not just Pushbullet, so the URL needs to be public so their client can access it. I would assume that's true of ANY MMS solution that uses HTTP(S) for images.
That said I don't really know how MMS works in other situations. I always assumed it was a direct data transfer over the network to send the image to the other phone.
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u/drbeer Jul 16 '15
Not sure I understand - my point is all MMS are uploaded to a Pushbullet server with a URL that is public. The URLs are not behind a login prompt for example, so I could right click and copy a URL of an MMS sent to me and you could open it, without any login.
This has nothing to do with the MMS protocol, but the fact that Pushbullet wants the MMS viewable on their plugins, so to achieve that, they upload it with a (hopefully) random and patternless URL.
I know that is commonly used (Facebook, Google Photos), but I AM CHOOSING to use those services. The sender of a picture mail is not choosing to have their photos automatically uploaded to a public-URL, but its happening because the receiver may be using Pushbullet for SMS.
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u/terrorist96 Jul 16 '15 edited Jul 16 '15
If EFF were to review pushbullet, which boxes would have a checkmark? https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard
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u/mturi Jul 16 '15
Pushbullet
EFF Secure Messaging Scorecard
Encrypted in transit?
Encrypted so the provider can’t read it?
Can you verify contacts’ identities?
Are past comms secure if your keys are stolen?
Is the code open to independent review?
Is security design properly documented?
Has there been any recent code audit?
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u/Avamander Jul 16 '15 edited Oct 02 '24
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u/Natanael_L Jul 16 '15 edited Jul 16 '15
Encrypted in transit, yes; no E2E encryption meaning they can read it; no per-user keypairs or key verification, so no; most messages except for relayed Android notifications are stored in their database, so no; not open, so no; don't know about documentation; don't know about audits
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u/thecodingdude Jul 16 '15 edited Feb 29 '20
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u/terrorist96 Jul 17 '15
Yup. I was the very first person to post in this thread too. So saying they didn't see it would be a lie.
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u/salisburymistake Jul 16 '15
Are there any plans to incorporate the Nearby API?
Right now, in order to push things to others you have to be friends with them on Pushbullet. I think it would be neat if you could have more of a temporary, anonymous connection with people you don't necessarily want to be friends with. Like, if you meet a dude and he shows you a cool picture on his phone that you'd like him to send to you, or he has directions to the after party, instead of him getting your email or phone number or friending you on Facebook, he could do a one-time push to your phone.
Admittedly, there aren't a lot of use cases but I'm of the mind that cool shit should be made for cool shit's sake.
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Jul 16 '15
I love all of this. Just found out about beacons yesterday and they sound amazing. We don't have plans to incorporate this at the moment but your use case and the technology itself is super cool and I hope we can do something with it in the future.
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u/octoshrimpy Jul 16 '15
maybe add a "discover devices within <range>" option, so you can't just spam everyone near you with pushbullet+tasker. :P I love the idea, though! Maybe even use nearby to add people. Having to go to the mobile site to add friends is really a pain when doing it from the app would be so much quicker.
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u/salisburymistake Jul 16 '15
You'd definitely need some method to curb spam. Maybe you could specify a keyword or hashtag? Actually, that would be really neat. Then you could link up a bunch of people at the same event and you could all push and receive photos with each other. Sure you could do something similar via Facebook or Instagram, but this keeps it all local to your devices and wouldn't be posted to a feed for all to see. Sort of an adhoc mini social network. I like it.
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u/ccrama Jul 16 '15
How did the team get started in development? When did you have the idea to create Pushbullet?
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Jul 16 '15
d in development? When did you have the idea to create Pushbullet?
Pushbullet started off as a side project by u/guzba, who is now our CEO. Five of us were working at Hipmunk at the time (awesome way to search for flights and hotels). Ryan came in on a Monday and started to show us this app he built in his spare time to easily send links and files from Chrome to his phone.
It was put on a shelf for about a year before we went through Y Combinator as turned Pushbullet into a real company. When the three founders got together they rewrote most of it.
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u/ccrama Jul 16 '15
That's awesome! What are you guys' backgrounds in development?
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u/kaisims Jul 16 '15
Why did you changed the whole concept of easy notification alerts and link sending to a chat messenger? My problem is, that I have to double click everything now, instead of a just the link I have to open the chat windows instead. Is there a plan to have a "light" version, where you just have the basic features?
Also, some pushes do not dissappear anymore, is that a bug?
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Jul 16 '15
We haven't abandoned the concept of easy notification alerts, we still have those. The universal messenger is an idea we're still fleshing out but the idea is to bring the best qualities of pushing to yourself to everyone.
Not sure where you click the link, clicking a link you send yourself it should take you to the link, not the chat window. Unless it's from somebody else.
As for a light version, we're open to the idea of separating different parts of the functionality into different apps.
Pushes not disappearing as far as I've seen is usually when you have Pushbullet open on your phone and your computer at same time. We're working on it, not very easy to fix.
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u/tigerdactyl Jul 16 '15
Please give us a lighter version without the social and messaging stuff! All I want out of a share dialog is this. And the Chrome extension is so cluttered now (c'mon, which looks better to you?).
I really feel like the new features have come at the expense of UI. The Android app used to be so effortless, now I feel like I'm bombarded with visual clutter and chat bubbles when I just want a list of stuff I've pushed.
Just one man's opinion, thanks for all the effort.
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u/deusxanime Jul 17 '15
When I push a link from my phone to my PC with the new PB (android and Windows thick app latest):
about half the time it doesn't even pop up a notification and so I forget about it. That's a pain because I tend to use it to remind me to do or look at something. This worked perfectly before the big chat client update/change.
when it does pop up a notification for a link and I click it it brings me to the PB chat window/history and then I have to click the link in there, rather than just taking me directly to the link.
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u/deathless203 Jul 16 '15
Not a question. Just a thanks. You guys are awesome and I love the new update! Keep up the great work! <3
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u/treeform Jul 16 '15
Thanks! We love users like you. You are the reason we made this thing.
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u/anirudhnyg Jul 16 '15
Buy Google !
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u/treeform Jul 16 '15
Sure thing! Give us a couple of years.
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u/Avamander Jul 16 '15 edited Oct 02 '24
Lollakad! Mina ja nuhk! Mina, kes istun jaoskonnas kogu ilma silma all! Mis nuhk niisuke on. Nuhid on nende eneste keskel, otse kõnelejate nina all, nende oma kaitsemüüri sees, seal on nad.
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u/anonymous-bot Jul 16 '15
A couple of questions in regards to Portal:
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Will Portal gain the ability to send files to a computer from your phone? iirc Portal only sends files the other way.
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Will there be a PC program for Portal, or perhaps offer integration with Pushbullet for PC? I'd rather have a dedicated app than use my web browser for file transfers.
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Jul 16 '15 edited Jul 16 '15
Hi. Big Pushbullet fan.
-side note: i pushed this link from my phone to my pc to ask you guys questions.
Is making a proper Linux app a WIP or not coming?
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u/monofuel Jul 16 '15
I also really want a linux app, i mainly use gentoo and debian linux myself!
However creating the 'full pushbullet experience' takes a while to polish, so it might be a while.
There are lots of user-created projects for pushbullet on github, which include command line clients that work on linux.
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u/LinkChef Jul 16 '15
Guys, I started using this service when the only thing you could do was push things and it was amazing. Now you've added SMS, Copy/Paste, Portal, and so much more. Just wanted to say thank you, it's made my life so much easier in such a short time.
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u/guzba Jul 16 '15
We already use proper security, the same as Gmail, your bank, Facebook, etc.
We also had a lengthy discussion on this topic here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/3bplym/hey_randroid_pb_dev_here_lets_talk_about_endtoend/
The big question I asked was, what does end-to-end encryption get you? The conclusion was it would prevent us from being vulnerable to subpoenas from the government or being hacked. (Many think it keeps your data more private but that's not true, as discussed in the post.)
To be clear, I want us to add end-to-end encryption. It's simply better to have it than not, and I like the sentiment behind it. I personally don't want us to have to store personal data, but much of PB can't work without doing it.
Regarding "proper security", I find that a misleading statement. Essentially no services you use have end-to-end encryption. Not Gmail, not hangouts, not Amazon, not your bank, no one. We have the same security in place as all of them.
I'm really curious about one thing myself--why does this topic always get so aggressive? Even this first question is off to a touchy start.
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The case of a stolen device is handled by removing the device from your account. That should log you out of that device and delete all the local data in it. Having said that, you should probably have a Google or iOS-wide clear my device remotely app set up.
The issues you list on two we are aware of. We just released the feature so we're still working to get everything fixed and polished. Some of these we just don't know (like you said, it's difficult) which ones are active, etc... It's a bit tricky.
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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '15
Thanks for all the great updates! PushBullet is my favorite Android app. The only problem I've ever had with it is that it doesn't know when to dismiss SMS notifications from my desktop. Even when I reply, I have to manually dismiss them. Is this a fix that's in the works?