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Re: Dropbox Paper

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Post by grinich »

brianpgordon wrote: post #33
ungzd wrote: post #21

After looking at landing page, it's completely unclear what it is. Powerpoint with comments? Pinterest for enterprise? Google Wave with Material design? "Create, review, organize" — but even Quake level editor is about creating, reviewing and organizing.

Google Wave is exactly what I thought of. Like Wave, this is a polished, high-quality, sexy solution for a problem that simply doesn't exist. People are going to ooh and aah over it, and then keep using Slack and Google Docs. s/Wave/Paper in this Wave obituary from 2010: > Wave brought together elements of instant messaging, e-mail, microblogging, and collaborative editing in a single service that strongly emphasized…

The comparison to Wave is actually kind of funny here, since Dropbox Paper came from the acquisition of Hackpad, which was a fork of Etherpad, which was a startup that Google acquired to integrate with Google Wave.

It's a small world. :)

Re: Dropbox Paper

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Post by sandebert »

ungzd wrote: post #21

After looking at landing page, it's completely unclear what it is. Powerpoint with comments? Pinterest for enterprise? Google Wave with Material design? "Create, review, organize" — but even Quake level editor is about creating, reviewing and organizing.

All of a sudden I want a Quake Office Suite.

Re: Dropbox Paper

#73

Post by Endy »

sandebert wrote: post #72
ungzd wrote: post #21

After looking at landing page, it's completely unclear what it is. Powerpoint with comments? Pinterest for enterprise? Google Wave with Material design? "Create, review, organize" — but even Quake level editor is about creating, reviewing and organizing.

All of a sudden I want a Quake Office Suite.

You mean Quake LAN parties aren't part of everyone's standard office software?!

Re: Dropbox Paper

#74

Post by clay_to_n »

isarat wrote: post #57

Initially when Paper was launched I tried and left the product quickly. I was using Quip a lot for my work as it's more developer friendly and easy to manage. I use Paper more and more these days with my team though we are into Google for Work. Google Docs is a tough cookie and an office replica. Those who are in to markdown, they would hardly go back to anything else for formatting. The only catch with markdown is a…

Do you still use Quip at all? Paper looks nice, but I don't see any reason to switch from Quip.

Re: Dropbox Paper

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Post by sp332 »

"However you think — in words, code, pictures or motion — Paper brings it all together in one place." Can you really communication in "motion" on this site?

Re: Dropbox Paper

#76

Post by divan »

I'm using Paper for 2+ years now, including for some team projects, and it literally makes me want to write docs and documentation.

Re: Dropbox Paper

#77

Post by dylanz »

ungzd wrote: post #21

After looking at landing page, it's completely unclear what it is. Powerpoint with comments? Pinterest for enterprise? Google Wave with Material design? "Create, review, organize" — but even Quake level editor is about creating, reviewing and organizing.

Seriously. I landed on the page, watched the intro, and the little animated wizard created a rainbow. I actually sat there waiting for the damn wizard to deliver me an "aha" moment, but he just kept creating rainbows. Hah! I scrolled down and still don't get it. I actually like the wizard, but @#$%^... why can't landing pages actually explain to me what the @#%^&ing product is, or does.

Re: Dropbox Paper

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Post by obeattie »

At Monzo where I work, we use Dropbox Paper quite extensively for internal RFC's in the engineering team. We'd probably prefer to use a Google product since the rest of the company uses Drive so heavily, but Docs is simply atrocious when you need to insert some code.

Re: Dropbox Paper

#79

Post by coldtea »

grinich wrote: post #71
brianpgordon wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Wave is exactly what I thought of. Like Wave, this is a polished, high-quality, sexy solution for a problem that simply doesn't exist. People are going to ooh and aah over it, and then keep using Slack and Google Docs. s/Wave/Paper in this Wave obituary from 2010: > Wave brought together elements of instant messaging, e-mail, microblogging, and collaborative editing in a single service that strongly emphasized…

The comparison to Wave is actually kind of funny here, since Dropbox Paper came from the acquisition of Hackpad, which was a fork of Etherpad, which was a startup that Google acquired to integrate with Google Wave. It's a small world. :)

>The comparison to Wave is actually kind of funny here, since Dropbox Paper came from the acquisition of Hackpad, which was a fork of Etherpad, which was a startup that Google acquired to integrate with Google Wave.

As a long time user of hackpad, it's nothing more than a glorified document editor, and very simple at that, with meagre "shared editing" capabilities that we've had for decades, even in desktop apps.

(The main reason I stuck with it is it's faster to load than Google Docs, and I only care about basic editing).

Re: Dropbox Paper

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Post by coldtea »

ukd1 wrote: post #10
hackcrafter wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Were those not acquisitions that withered as opposed to Dropbox new product ventures? To be honest, I read through that whole page and I really am not sure I understand what "Paper" is. I'm guessing it's like slack + specialized components (lists/document snippets) and file sharing designed around collaborating on a product or more generally a project...

Paper is a cross between a wiki and a google doc. It was based on https://hackpad.com/ from what I heard!

Hackpad, otoh, which I've used for years, is nothing like a wiki and more like a half arsed google doc.
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