Streak Eng Blog

Building link tracking infrastructure

Streak has millions of users sending many millions of emails a day through their Gmail…

We’re proud to announce that Streak has been named Google’s G Suite Technology Partner of the Year!

The Cheat Sheet I Wish I had before Building our Zapier Integration

Imagine explaining how to use Instagram to your 30-something’s co-worker. Now imagine explaining Instagram to your 80-something’s grandmother.

Powering Streak’s Gmail Add-on: Part 1 — Backing into GraphQL

The Complexities of Implementing Inline Autocomplete for Content Editables

When we recently rebuilt our MailMerge feature (announcement post) we ran into an interesting challenge to implement an inline autocomplete. Our MailMerge feature lets users write a templated email and…

How to use the Gmail API in a Chrome extension

Chrome extensions are awesome. The Gmail API is awesome. It should be easy to use the two together. And it actually is easy to use the two together, however there’s a lot of noise out there to get things to work properly, so I wanted to write this…

Using Google BigQuery for Event Tracking

Until recently, we were using some of the popular analytics tools (Mixpanel and Google Analytics) to track the usage of Streak. The visual interfaces provided by these tools make it easy for non-technical users to see trends in the usage of their websites…

How Streak Tracks Down App Engine Datastore Bugs

How We Built an Extensible Tour System for Streak

Streak is a process management tool that helps you manage a wide variety of processes and workflows such as Sales, Hiring, Bug Fixing, etc. This flexibility is both a blessing and a curse since it can do almost anything, but people aren’t sure…