This week marks Boomerang’s third birthday. To celebrate, the Baydin team had a Monday full of red meat, assorted dairy products, athletic interaction with mother nature, fried things, and cheap wine. To summarize, we ate a ton and kayaked. First, we traveled via an intern’s parents’ mini-van to Sauced in Livermore, CA, where we dined on enough Rednexican Nachos (nachos + pulled pork) and assorted barbeque platters to make our...
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Happy August! We are promoting Read Receipts from a beta feature to a fully-supported feature in Boomerang for Gmail today. Thank you for trying the feature out, for sending feedback, and for helping us make them work better! We are very happy that that you have found them useful over the past few months. Our data shows that including a read receipt significantly boosts your chances of getting a response. So using read receipts over...
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When I think of a “customer-service-worst-case-scenario,” I think of Marie Antoinette. Legend has it that she was so out of tune with her constituents that when she heard the peasants had no bread and were starving to death, replied, “let them eat cake” (yes, this was misattributed, but go with it)… and eventually lost her head. Granted, she didn’t have the benefits of social media and email like we do, but at Baydin,...
Read MoreTwo days before the release of our first mobile app, Boomerang for Android, the Baydin team remembered that we needed to make a demo video. Luckily, two of our interns have a penchant for filmmaking: Brandon was accepted to Tufts (he attends Brown) thanks to an iMovie application video involving 84 digits of pi, and Davis had recently seen Man of Steel. Because we’re a startup, our budget for the film was “low-to-no” so we carefully...
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The story of how a young wizard named Charlotte tamed her Inbox It started a couple of years ago, when my smarty pants CS major little brother originally tipped liberal-arts-major-me off to the existence of Boomerang. It was great to be able to send emails to certain people “early in the morning” so it looked like I was a responsible early riser when in fact I might be sinfully sleeping in… (or of course, for purely...
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