Rapportive (YC S10) adds Facebook: like, comment, and add friends from Gmail
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Re: Rapportive (YC S10) adds Facebook: like, comment, and add friends from Gmail
#2Rapportive is one great tool that's iterating pretty quickly! Looks like someone is putting the VC/angel money to great use. It's the one reason that I don't use Sparrow instead of GMail.
However, the main question again: how will they earn money?
Re: Rapportive (YC S10) adds Facebook: like, comment, and add friends from Gmail
#3I am so proud to be an angel investor in Rapportive... and that they presented at Open Angel Forum.
These guys are relentless and I predict they will a huge, huge success in the coming years.
Rapportive is a HUGE part of my daily activity online.
Re: Rapportive (YC S10) adds Facebook: like, comment, and add friends from Gmail
#4Every time I'm asked to connect a service to Rapportive I'm extremely impressed by how slick, complete, wholesome and reliable the experience is. I know it's not rocket science, but it is hard to make this simple interaction work with zero drama as a plug-in for many different types of users with different browsers. Well done guys!
Re: Rapportive (YC S10) adds Facebook: like, comment, and add friends from Gmail
#5Rapportive is one great tool that's iterating pretty quickly! Looks like someone is putting the VC/angel money to great use. It's the one reason that I don't use Sparrow instead of GMail. However, the main question again: how will they earn money?
It's a simple formula: build a product that people love, have a basic free version, charge users money for advanced features. The product you see now will most likely stay free forever, but we are planning additional premium features based on what our users are asking for.
You can see our analysis of freemium business models on the Rapportive blog: http://blog.rapportive.com/is-freemium-right-for-you
Edit: looks like rahulvohra and I had a little race condition here ;-)
Re: Rapportive (YC S10) adds Facebook: like, comment, and add friends from Gmail
#6Rapportive is one great tool that's iterating pretty quickly! Looks like someone is putting the VC/angel money to great use. It's the one reason that I don't use Sparrow instead of GMail. However, the main question again: how will they earn money?
The plan is to go freemium: build an amazingly useful product, and charge money for premium features.
I know that startups very commonly say that this is their plan. We've thought very hard about what makes freemium work: http://blog.rapportive.com/is-freemium-right-for-you. We're pretty certain that Rapportive has all the right characteristics.
Re: Rapportive (YC S10) adds Facebook: like, comment, and add friends from Gmail
#7I am so proud to be an angel investor in Rapportive... and that they presented at Open Angel Forum. These guys are relentless and I predict they will a huge, huge success in the coming years. Rapportive is a HUGE part of my daily activity online.
I use Rapportive all day, every day. It's now an automatic reflex to look in the Rapportive margin when I'm working on email.
The new Facebook integration will be awesome -- may actually get me to use Facebook more.
Re: Rapportive (YC S10) adds Facebook: like, comment, and add friends from Gmail
#8Rapportive is one great tool that's iterating pretty quickly! Looks like someone is putting the VC/angel money to great use. It's the one reason that I don't use Sparrow instead of GMail. However, the main question again: how will they earn money?
It's a simple formula: build a product that people love, have a basic free version, charge users money for advanced features. The product you see now will most likely stay free forever, but we are planning additional premium features based on what our users are asking for. You can see our analysis of freemium business models on the Rapportive blog: http://blog.rapportive.com/is-freemium-right-for-you Edit: looks like…
The perils of working on different sides of the Atlantic…
Re: Rapportive (YC S10) adds Facebook: like, comment, and add friends from Gmail
#9Rapportive is one great tool that's iterating pretty quickly! Looks like someone is putting the VC/angel money to great use. It's the one reason that I don't use Sparrow instead of GMail. However, the main question again: how will they earn money?
It's a simple formula: build a product that people love, have a basic free version, charge users money for advanced features. The product you see now will most likely stay free forever, but we are planning additional premium features based on what our users are asking for. You can see our analysis of freemium business models on the Rapportive blog: http://blog.rapportive.com/is-freemium-right-for-you Edit: looks like…
hehe... races to give an answer - that's another thing that we have been hearing a lot around here lately! ;-)
And, thanks for the service and the link - I am not quite sure how I missed that post!
Re: Rapportive (YC S10) adds Facebook: like, comment, and add friends from Gmail
#10I am so proud to be an angel investor in Rapportive... and that they presented at Open Angel Forum. These guys are relentless and I predict they will a huge, huge success in the coming years. Rapportive is a HUGE part of my daily activity online.
(Slightly OT: I'm happy to chat any entrepreneurs who are thinking about pitching OAF about our experience doing so. I also highly recommend AngelList.)