A few people at our company signed up for Hall and invited others, causing a runaway chain of invitation reminders that drove our entire team nuts. Not a great way to get introduced to a product.
Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
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Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Help me with The Hall web app is 6 times faster than existing enterprise solutions That's just as confusing? Can you explain that in a couple more sentences? My CTO just raved about 'We need to give Yammer a try, someone just recommended it'. Why wouldn't we (ignoring my own 'what the hell is a social intranet' questions)? Can you give me a pitch in three sentences?
We invested in building a Single Page Application (SPA) which means when you use Hall, click around, the page never refreshes. This helps our customers get things done insanely fast. Imagine if Gmail was a website and not a web app, that's what other enterprise apps feel like IMO. Also, Hall is one of the few enterprise companies that has a true SPA. We ended up building a highly customized framework on top of Backbo…
I'm really not trying to be a dick here.
Why do I care about a single page application and how does that make your app 'six times faster than unnamed other solutions'?
I fail to see the connection to GMail (I thought you want to move away from the 'why not just email?')?
"A true SPA"? I failed to find out what 'SPA' means [1], I thought SLA first but got confused.
Nothing personal, but your reply didn't help a bit for this single guy here. I was complaining about marketing terms on your site and got .. a response on the same level.
Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#23I read the article top to bottom and couldn't figure out what it is that Hall does. > This startup is interested in building what comes next after the “social intranet.” I don't know what the social intranet is or was, I certainly have no idea "what comes next" -- and the article doesn't say. > At Intuit, Hellman was the only person on his team at the Mountain View office, which led to the original inspiration that l…
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Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Help me with The Hall web app is 6 times faster than existing enterprise solutions That's just as confusing? Can you explain that in a couple more sentences? My CTO just raved about 'We need to give Yammer a try, someone just recommended it'. Why wouldn't we (ignoring my own 'what the hell is a social intranet' questions)? Can you give me a pitch in three sentences?
Hi darklajid, I'm CTO of Hall. Let me know if you have any additional technical questions about the app. As Brett said, it's probably time to start doing some more technical blog postings.
Hi
I'm just wondering what did you use to package your webapp for desktops?
Thanks!
Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#25Your copy on the landing page (under the blue circle-ish images) is very hard to read.
The logo has an issue with spacing between the letters. The "a" is too far fromn the first "l".
The pricing page is not quite clear. What do I get with the free plan? Can I "friend" my co-workers? A paragraph explaining it would be nice. Five dollars seems like the wrong price for this sort of deal. Even the cheapest option on github is seven dollars.
I would love to test your headline.
The top segment of the landing page says nothing. There are no testimonials, no text explaining what you do, nothing. Just a signup box which does not seem to fit in the whole context.
This copy has the wrong rhythm:
About Hall
Hall helps teams and companies communicate in real-time. Our all-in-one unified communications app has everything your company needs to communicate and get things done. There are thousands of companies using Hall, from small businesses to the world's largest enterprises like Amazon and Nike. Professionals love using Hall to communicate.
Sentence structure is way too long, and confusing. Let me take a quick stab at it.
About us:
Hall aims to do one thing. Help your team communicate in real time. It achieves that with a state-of-the-art status panel. You can easily keep track of what your team is doing. Get things done by using our hassle-free communication tools. Its your own intelligence network.
Who uses Hall to make their lives easier? Big Companies like Nike, Amazon to smaller team like yours. They all have one thing in common: No matter the size, everyone just loves Hall.
But don't take our word for it. Try Hall now. See what you have been missing. Its free.
By the way, go ahead and use that if you want. :)
Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#26So, I'm playing with this with my team... And I'm not so sure that I "get it". How is this better than using Skype or IRC? What am I missing? I like the clean interface, but I'm not sure what value I'm getting out of it. How does this compare to Yammer or Jostle?
Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#27So, I'm playing with this with my team... And I'm not so sure that I "get it". How is this better than using Skype or IRC? What am I missing? I like the clean interface, but I'm not sure what value I'm getting out of it. How does this compare to Yammer or Jostle?
Our company's using Lync internally (MS shop, everything is golden if it comes from Redmond).
I'd like to understand as well what this would offer that Lync doesn't - and that's from a guy that isn't a fan of Lync in the first place.
I guess a decent Android client would be nice.. What else?
Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#28So, I'm playing with this with my team... And I'm not so sure that I "get it". How is this better than using Skype or IRC? What am I missing? I like the clean interface, but I'm not sure what value I'm getting out of it. How does this compare to Yammer or Jostle?
Our company's using Lync internally (MS shop, everything is golden if it comes from Redmond). I'd like to understand as well what this would offer that Lync doesn't - and that's from a guy that isn't a fan of Lync in the first place. I guess a decent Android client would be nice.. What else?
darklajid Would love to discuss... Can you msg me at brett @ hall-inc.com or if you're on hall, https://hall.com/brett
Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi darklajid, I'm CTO of Hall. Let me know if you have any additional technical questions about the app. As Brett said, it's probably time to start doing some more technical blog postings.
Hi I'm just wondering what did you use to package your webapp for desktops? Thanks!
stokanic, we started with adobe air which was a quick way to test our hypothesis early on that a desktop app would increase retention. We have since moved on to building native experience w xcode.
Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#30How is Hall's "real-time" real-timier than those of Yammer's or a number of other enterprise activity-stream apps?
Its pretty much a given that an activity stream app will use an socketi.io-ish messaging systme for real-time updates, some sort of APN service for mobile notifications and a visual tool for in-web-app notifications.
What does Hall bring to the table that differentiates it from other Activity stream[1] apps
*disclaimer: I work for Socialcast, VMWare's Social Enterprise App that has had these features for a while now.
#hint We have a Freemium model where 99% of features are provided for free to companies with less than 50 users.