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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

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Post by scottbruin »

nixme wrote: post #25
Lewisham wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any chance of pinging out an invite code for HN users?

For sure. https://do.com/users/sign_up?invite_code=PROTROSTYBY

Thanks for the invite as well.

Been using Asana about a week now so here's some comparisons:

* I like that less is happening on hove compared to Asana—I find the over-reliance on hovers and background changes (cf. new Twitter) very distracting

* the notes idea is cool

* You have the same issue Asana has with "groups"—can't drag a group together

* I prefer Asana's ability to rely on the keyboard heavily

* You should add drag/drop for file uploads, at least using the right pane as the target. I work on a 10yo application so I know why we don't have it but with apps like this it's a no-brainer. It would also improve the upload flow which I dislike, though Google Docs integration is great.

Re: Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams

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Post by foobarbazetc »

corin_ wrote: post #12
dreeves wrote: post #5

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…

> 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.

It's hardly organic when SalesForce probably put down a giant chunk of change for it.

Re: Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams

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Post by [deleted] »

arbales wrote: post #23
saturdaysaint wrote: post #11

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 can't speak to how those companies have built their products, but I can say that the inspiration for our product was Manymoon, and a three-pane view was always in the cards. It's a fairly straightforward UI paradigm used across many apps. I'm a huge fan of apps like Reeder and Sparrow, and they take this UI approach as well. As for the focus of the app, stay tuned :)

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Re: Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams

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Post by corin_ »

foobarbazetc wrote: post #32
corin_ wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

It's hardly organic when SalesForce probably put down a giant chunk of change for it.

I mean the product was organic. It wasn't, as pg wrote, a big company going "let's make a product called cool.com!", it was them buying a product, reworking it then changing it's name to cool.com

Re: Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams

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Post by rjsamson »

nixme wrote: post #25
Lewisham wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any chance of pinging out an invite code for HN users?

For sure. https://do.com/users/sign_up?invite_code=PROTROSTYBY

It looks like that invite code is no longer working - any chance of still getting an invite?

Re: Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams

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Post by arbales »

jccodez wrote: post #27
nixme wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Is there an api?

@jccodez the web app and iOS apps both leverage the same RESTful API. We're planning on opening the API to other consumers as soon as it reaches a ~1.0 state.
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