Alec Saunders Says A VC Is Looking For What's Already There

Alec has a post that is really more about his Calliflower Service doing what VC Rick Segel said he was looking for, but unaware of Calliflower.

Alec does a very polite job at pointing out what Calliflower does and why it doesn't do certain things. One of which is have an Outlook Plug-In. Alec's reasoning here is SPOT ON. I've seen many an Outlook Plug-In work the first time, but as Microsoft Updates arrive, for either Office or the OS, they seem to get flaky, or really Outlook gets flaky.

It likely has to do with how Windows apps and the OS registry work, or at least that's how I suspect the problem is caused. You see, when you mess with one, you're likely messing with the other, so unless the Plug-In developer is totally Plugged-In with the Microsoft developer programs, chances are something runs afoul and you have Windows Headache number 14, or is it 15...