Pushbullet Blog
blog.pushbullet.com · Company blog · on HN since 2013
The Pushbullet blog is the company's own account of its app, covering features, end-to-end encryption, and its fights with Google over its extension.
What HN saysHN links it for the Google extension takedown saga, which commenters say shows the pain of automated review, and for early universal copy and paste.
24HN people shared it
8linked it in comments
19stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1Introducing Pushbullet Pro4 people · 6 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
- 2Introducing universal copy and paste3 people · first shared 2015
- 3Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension2 people · 1.9K points · first shared 2020 · 788 comments on HN
- 4We became experts on Google Play Store policy violations2 people · 439 points · first shared 2022 · 222 comments on HN
- 5Our Chrome Extension Is Safe2 people · 328 points · first shared 2020 · 197 comments on HN
- 6PushBullet: From 0 to 15,000 users in 2 weeks1 people · 151 points · first shared 2013 · 55 comments on HN
- 7End-to-End Encryption1 people · 46 points · first shared 2015 · 11 comments on HN
- 8Hello, PushBullet - push anything to your Android phone from your browser1 people · 43 points · first shared 2013 · 46 comments on HN
- 9Relying on a Google API and going over the quota on launch day1 people · 37 points · first shared 2013 · 11 comments on HN
- 10Show HN: Portal – Effortlessly transfer files over wifi1 people · 20 points · first shared 2015 · 3 comments on HN
- 11Real-time notification mirroring from Android to your computer1 people · 18 points · first shared 2013 · 14 comments on HN
- 12Meet the new Pushbullet1 people · 13 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
- 13Push anything from Android to Chrome1 people · 7 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 14Introducing Pushbullet Channels1 people · 6 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 15Pushbullet's most material update yet1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
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vladxyz · 2023-10-19
Pushbullet did it nearly a decade ago[0]. KDE Connect now does it better, and seems to be available on pretty much anything you'd want it on[1].
[0] https://blog.pushbullet.com/2014/08/20/introducing-universal-copy-and-…
[1] https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html
thrtythreeforty · 2022-11-09
Pushbullet has also learned the hard way how to respond to Google's faceless review process:
> Now that you know you’re up against an automated policy enforcement AI, your goal is to look as much as possible like the training data. Unfortunately, this can be easier said than done since we do not have access to the training data.
> All is not lost, however. You have actionable info in the simple fact that what your app looks like now is not acceptable.
https://blog.pushbullet.com/2022/10/27/how-we-became-the-worlds-foremo…
xyse53 · 2020-05-18
I'm referring to this one https://blog.pushbullet.com/2020/05/15/our-extension-is-safe/
tony-allan · 2020-05-15
Similar story published around the same time as this one... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23168874) https://blog.pushbullet.com/2020/05/13/lets-guess-what-google-requires…
skiman10 · 2018-08-07
Well this is kind of annoying. They gave out premium to everyone when Pinterest bought them, but now that they are a private company again they took away features from me that I was used to using as a free user. I get why, but it still rubs me the wrong way. Reminds me of the PushBullet monetization stuff[0].
[0] https://blog.pushbullet.com/2015/11/17/introducing-pushbullet-pro/
voltagex_ · 2015-11-24
Watch what happens over the next few months to PushBullet - they've learnt the hard way that pricing is serious business. They had a base of users who were used to a free product, then they tried to bring in a $40/year plan with no middle ground.
https://blog.pushbullet.com/2015/11/17/introducing-pushbullet-pro/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PushBullet/comments/3t5ogz/introducing_pushbu…
pbhjpbhj · 2015-02-18
https://blog.pushbullet.com/2014/08/20/introducing-universal-copy-and-… - blog post about the feature (only official "documentation" on the feature I could find).
benatkin · 2020-05-15
I'd like to know what the number of users that directly used Pushbullet in the last day (or week, or month) over the number of users that have the Android app installed is. If they have it installed, everything they copy to the clipboard on Android is being sent to their servers, is it not? That puts them in the same category as Yahoo! Toolbar for me.
At one time Yahoo! Toolbar was useful for a significant percentage of its users, because it would let them know how many email messages they have, as well as give them convenient access to the news and weather - so I disagree that it did nothing for its users.
Edit: I took a look at https://blog.pushbullet.com/2014/08/20/introducing-universal-copy-and-… - it appears it was doing that at one time, but currently it may only be doing that for premium users, who would conceivably be likely enough to get good use the feature that it would justify the potential security risk.