Presented at the Unsexy Conference 2013 – Polynomial Growth! Baydin unsexy 2013 from Alex...
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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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Hello Friends! I’m Lo – short for Lauren – and I am so so excited to be joining the Baydin team as the Customer and Office Happiness Liaison. I found out about Baydin through a friend and jumped on the opportunity to be a part of something super awesome when I saw they were looking for someone. So far, I have found it to be a great fit because of the strong cheese focus in the office (cheese being my favorite food, I talk...
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