Ask HN: Why doesn't Google open up an API for Inbox?

1 points by patrickdavey 9y ago ↗ HN

I quite like Google Inbox, I really like the way there's the ability to create tasks (reminders) and sleep emails for a period of time.

It's the reminders functionality I'm most interested in though. I don't have a nice solution currently for managing a TO-DO list which works everywhere. I'm currently experimenting with Taskwarrior [1], but what I'd really like would be to interact with the Google Inbox reminders API, if such a thing existed.

So - my question - Why would Google not open up an API for this? Support & maintenance issues? Not that invested and it'll be another Google Reader at some point? Shame, I'd love to build some integrations.

[1] https://taskwarrior.org/

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quickben 9y ago ↗

Can you not integrate to your own next-cloud?

patrickdavey 9y ago ↗

I have used owncloud before (seems quite similar) but the thing is, I _like_ Google Inbox, I really like the mobile app on Android, and I'd like to just have one place to see tasks (i.e. in Google Inbox, but I want to be able to manage it from bash, anywhere else)

Moving to next-cloud would mean I'd have to open up a different app to see my tasks, which isn't what I want.