At Boomerang, we are fortunate to be able to give a portion of our profits to help make the world a better place. This Giving Tuesday, I am thrilled to announce that we are not only increasing the amount of our donations for carbon capture research but we’re also donating to help build much needed schools for Burmese refugee children. One of my favorite things I get to do as the CEO of Boomerang is reading the proposals we get for our...
Read MoreAt Boomerang, we’re fortunate enough to be able to donate a portion of our profits to different causes every year. For example, we’ve helped build several schools in Burma and funded a mobile school bus and a few academic labs working on carbon capture technologies. We are continuing the tradition of giving back this year and we’d like your help in finding our next recipient. One of the critical components of helping to offset global...
Read MoreBookable Schedule, now for Outlook. Today we’re proud to roll out Bookable Schedule in Boomerang for Outlook. It’s meeting scheduling made easy. You can use Bookable Schedule now in Outlook on desktop or Outlook on the web. Want to try it out? Check out here. Bookable Schedule saves you the time and hassle of having to set up and share meeting invites over and over again. Simply set up a Bookable Schedule of available times and...
Read MoreIntroducing Bookable Schedule. With the advent of working from home and hybrid remote/office working, the need to be efficient with our time has gotten more pronounced, not less. Whether it’s in-person, a Zoom call, or a virtual meeting across time zones, the number of meetings we need to attend has increased dramatically. While not every meeting could be a single email, it shouldn’t take more than a single email to schedule...
Read MoreWe spent over 5 years building a completely free iOS app, only to start charging for it now. We learned a lot throughout this process, and hopefully you can learn a little something from our experience. With such a variety of documentation out there, you’re almost guaranteed to get lost. Here’s where to actually start: https://developer.apple.com/in-app-purchase/ Complexity 1 – Plan for a phased release schedule We’ve been...
Read MoreI’m excited to announce that we have chosen a proposal for Boomerang’s 2021 climate donation. But before I do that, I’d like to back up and talk about how a productivity company ended up doing something like this on an ongoing basis. When we started Boomerang, we committed to donating 5% of our profits (if we ever generated any, which was far from guaranteed in 2010!) to support education in Burma, where I grew...
Read MoreAt Boomerang, we’re fortunate enough to be able to donate a portion of our profits to different causes every year. For example, we’ve helped build several schools in Burma and funded a mobile school classroom and a couple academic labs working on carbon capture technologies. We are continuing the tradition of giving back this year and we’d like your help in finding our next recipient. One of the critical components of helping to...
Read MoreBoomerang is now SOC2 certified!
Read MoreYou asked, we listened. We’re giving you more ways to personalize your inbox with the ability to disable Conversation view, and the addition of Send & Archive inside of Boomerang for iOS. To get started, make sure that you have Boomerang downloaded on your iOS device. Much like Themes, Widgets, and Dark Mode, these new features are a result of your feedback. We want you to make Boomerang for iOS your own in both form...
Read MoreIt’s been a few months since we introduced you to the new meeting scheduling features inside of Boomerang for Gmail. Along the way we’ve gotten some great feedback from you about how you schedule meetings and ways that we can make these features even better. Today we’re happy to let you know that now when you want to schedule a meeting over Zoom, Boomerang will automatically generate the link for you. First things...
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