I'm curious as to how they were able to line up the NYT coverage http://t.co/qCFneXpJwV with the launch announcement. Any idea who reps them, PR-wise?
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#12I'm curious as to how they were able to line up the NYT coverage http://t.co/qCFneXpJwV with the launch announcement. Any idea who reps them, PR-wise?
it's the former CTO of Facebook. My guess is no rep needed.
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#13Is it just me, or are a lot of startups borrowing each other's value props? It's like a Mad Lib that everyone just fills in:
"[Product] is a [app category] that enables you to create beautiful [output]."
Everything's about "enabling the creation of beautiful" XYZ. Nothing against these guys in particular, I just happened to notice it while reading the site, and am thinking back to the N other new product announcements I've seen here recently.
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#14Who likes typing on a tablet or phone? They are for reading, not composing.
iPad mini portrait is great for typing
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#15Kinda looks like OneNote for people who haven't seen OneNote. A few cool new things in there, like the @mentions. Neat.
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#16Nice subtle "Professional" marketing with the Quip Business screenshot for the desktop NOT being on a Macbook. :) However, this says nothing of compatibility with existing docs. What if I have a ton of content trapped in .docx? What about Tables in docs? Are they supported? How do you send a document to a non-Quipper? Does it PDF? Export to ODF? DOCX? Or are we to expect an email "Hey, I sent you this awesome documen…
Right now, we natively support PDF export. We also support "high fidelity" copy and paste, i.e., if you paste a doc from Quip into Word or similar products, it preserves all the formatting correctly. Not awesome and we will improve in subsequent updates, but it actually does most of what you'd need in the meantime.
One of the best word processing docs I have ever used was Page Maker 5.0... Everything you put into it was treated as an object. Tec: Object box. And they were extremely precisely controllable. None of the god-damned app trying to auto snap/move your stuff around.
You had a "page" which was actually just a backdrop on top of which your content object hovered - and you had very very fine control.
If you have the ability to treat each piece of content as a discrete object - and move, size and shape them precisely - that would be fantastic.
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#17All devices, except your laptop. Who actually wants to write more than a few sentences on anything but something with a keyboard?
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#18Looks awesome. I especially like the conversation column showing diffs and messages together -- it seems like an elegant way to collaborate.
Congratulations Bret and team!
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#19Interesting though this sounds, I get irritated whenever I read about someone changing the existing paradigms of [insert topic here], and then continuing to use all the existing metaphors from the existing paradigms, e.g.; 'desktop', 'inbox', etc.
And despite my rant, I'm not sure if there's a solution to this. You need customers to understand how you're asking them to change, and without reference to the old terminology this is damn near impossible.
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#20Nice. Seems very similar in focus to other document based collaboration services, perhaps most notably these folks: http://www.collaborate.com/
Quip seems closed, no links to Google Drive or Box that I could see, but they include private links to hosted document storage and PDF export. It's like the Asana[1] in that way, but Quip has a solid focus on documents not tasks.
Some strange UI artifacts on my iPhone 4s iOS7b4, text insertion didn't work; wonder if this is due to a proprietary attributed uitextview?