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I 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!
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.
I 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 can also say with confidence that our strategy complements Salesforce's, and shouldn't cannibalize their offerings in the enterprise software market. Do is for small groups.
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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?
Quoting 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
Fantastic. 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.
Fantastic. 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.