Ah! That's just like a side project my old startup and I had called "Fready." Basically Fready gives you news on the people you are meeting with before you meet with them. It uses NLP to pull out any names/companies/locations from a google calendar event to give you pretty relevant news. Here is an old blog post about it: http://blog.getfready.com/ Perhaps we should have pitched it at our YC interview...
Unfortunately I took it down recently but it might be a good time to bring it back.
congrats jake and wil! this solves a problem i have nearly every time i meet with someone new. i'll look them up on facebook and linkedin, i'll try to figure out more about them or at least get a picture so i know who i'm looking for. noteleaf makes this a lot faster and easier. it's one of those problems that's not excruciating, but it's so repetitive that it becomes very annoying to do manually.
i'm not sure how much you've thought about making it easy to remember things about people but that's still a pain point for me.
We started with remembering things about people, and found that the simple way to do that was to take notes.
However, note taking has such a high barrier to entry, that we ended up pivoting here. However, I think there's different ways about it that we'll play with down the line if we revisit the topic.
Since you already know when I'm meeting with someone, I would love to be pinged shortly after the meeting and prompted to add some notes while it's still fresh in my mind. I'm not very good at taking notes during meetings, but would love to be able to record a short summary afterwards (with the recording being saved with metadata about which meeting it applies to - having this would have been invaluable to me in certain situations in the past)
Perhaps the best and the worst thing for the app are interdependencies on other apps/service like Gmail and LinkedIN.
I am sure they will be adding other email services as well as Outlook support. Let's face it a lot many people are still stuck to Outlook/MS Exchange servers for office emails.
When will you offer SSL on your account create / login forms?
I'm hesitating connecting my Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar.