Looks remarkably like asana.com, flow.com, orchestra.com... Seriously, how did this happen? The UI, emphasis and core functionality of all these are so similar (even for a narrow category) that this cannot be a coincidence.
Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams
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Re: Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams
#12Quoting Paul Graham [ http://messymatters.com/pgnames.html ]: "Nothing could be less cool, at this point, than calling a startup 'cool.com.' A company with a name like that could not have arisen organically. 'Cool.com' smells of a media conglomerate trying to create a web spinoff." He has a point, yet getting the do.com domain proves they're taking this quite seriously. I guess the two signals cancel and I'm left neu…
> A company with a name like that could not have arisen organically
And yet it actually did arise organically in a way, as it is based on an app that the parent company acquired.
Re: Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams
#13I think these guys ripped us off, and all they did was go after the low-handing fruit: tasks only. We pushed to add geo-tagging, voice, business card scanning, and some a peer-to-peer CRM system.
Plus, we have a cooler name: http://fieldforceapp.com
I guess we shouldn't expect Salesforce to cannibalize themselves with a mobile CRM solution, but still they could have tried a little harder!
Re: Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams
#14Quoting Paul Graham [ http://messymatters.com/pgnames.html ]: "Nothing could be less cool, at this point, than calling a startup 'cool.com.' A company with a name like that could not have arisen organically. 'Cool.com' smells of a media conglomerate trying to create a web spinoff." He has a point, yet getting the do.com domain proves they're taking this quite seriously. I guess the two signals cancel and I'm left neu…
"do.com" and "cool.com" are not comparable.
1) "do" is a verb 2) "do" describes exactly the value proposition 3) "do" describes the product, not your relationship to it
Re: Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams
#15Quoting Paul Graham [ http://messymatters.com/pgnames.html ]: "Nothing could be less cool, at this point, than calling a startup 'cool.com.' A company with a name like that could not have arisen organically. 'Cool.com' smells of a media conglomerate trying to create a web spinoff." He has a point, yet getting the do.com domain proves they're taking this quite seriously. I guess the two signals cancel and I'm left neu…
"do.com" and "cool.com" are not comparable. 1) "do" is a verb 2) "do" describes exactly the value proposition 3) "do" describes the product, not your relationship to it
Good point, "do" is certainly more evocative a name than "cool" would be (unless the latter were in the refrigeration space).
I think it's a lousy name otherwise though. It's, ironically, not even really verbable. Technically it is a verb but not one that you can use to invoke do.com. Imagine swapping 'trello' for 'do' in this sentence:
"Our task list is getting out of hand -- we should trello this."
Re: Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams
#16Fantastic. From poking around in the console a bit, it looks like Do.com is a Backbone.js app, and is using Handlebars.js for templating.
Yep. CoffeeScript too :)
What you see is just the beginning. If anyone's interested, we're hiring developers and designers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3060989. We run as an independent business unit within Salesforce, similar to Heroku, and have our own office in downtown SF. Great perks from a large company but all the benefits of shipping as a small team.
Re: Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams
#17I think these guys ripped us off, and all they did was go after the low-handing fruit: tasks only. We pushed to add geo-tagging, voice, business card scanning, and some a peer-to-peer CRM system. Plus, we have a cooler name: http://fieldforceapp.com I guess we shouldn't expect Salesforce to cannibalize themselves with a mobile CRM solution, but still they could have tried a little harder!
I doubt you got ripped off, given that most people have never heard of you.
Re: Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams
#18What does this do that is "smart"? The article only mentions one concrete thing that this program does, which is figure out your e-mail address when you send it an e-mail:
For example, send a short e-mail to task@do.com and it will automatically detect your address and add an entry.
I do not think this counts as smart.
Re: Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams
#19Fantastic. From poking around in the console a bit, it looks like Do.com is a Backbone.js app, and is using Handlebars.js for templating.
Yep. CoffeeScript too :) What you see is just the beginning. If anyone's interested, we're hiring developers and designers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3060989 . We run as an independent business unit within Salesforce, similar to Heroku, and have our own office in downtown SF. Great perks from a large company but all the benefits of shipping as a small team.
Any chance of pinging out an invite code for HN users?
Re: Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams
#20I think these guys ripped us off, and all they did was go after the low-handing fruit: tasks only. We pushed to add geo-tagging, voice, business card scanning, and some a peer-to-peer CRM system. Plus, we have a cooler name: http://fieldforceapp.com I guess we shouldn't expect Salesforce to cannibalize themselves with a mobile CRM solution, but still they could have tried a little harder!
I doubt you got ripped off, given that most people have never heard of you.
I don't know, ask Gopal. But it will be interesting to see if SFDC does anything truly disruptive in this space. Hard to see how shareholders are getting much value from a task manager behind an expensive two-letter domain name!
Sure Marc's got deep pockets, but is there any organic growth here?