What does Do do?
You can do anything you want at do.com. The impossible is not a barrier at do.com. Welcome to do.com.
I thought that was zombo.com.
It’s time to say goodbye
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Re: It’s time to say goodbye
#42Do is Done. Thanks, Salesforce! Your purchase of Manymoon and subsequent shutdown of it instills Google-like levels of confidence in your product offerings!
I have no idea why Do is closing down, but I'm guessing it has something to do with lack of ROI. Hence, Salesforce has a fiduciary duty to do so. This repeated criticism on HN of any company choosing to close down a service is bizarre.
Soberly exercised fiduciary duty is probably around #15 on the reason why things get closed down. Other things that I expect are higher include a couple of key people leaving; a manager not liking another manager; an executive not really understanding the product, the audience, the market, or the potential; idiocy; somebody wanting their budget; somebody being envious of their success; somebody hating the guy who ok'd the acquisition; the departure of the guy who ok'd the acquisition; more idiocy; somebody suddenly needing to be seen as a bold and decisive leader; the need for a distraction; or it not being mauve [1].
There is no particular reason to think high-level executives at a company have a better understanding of one of their minor products than do the people who post here on Hacker News. Indeed, the people posting here demonstrably have a surplus of time, nosiness, and interest in the industry. High-level executives are generally insanely busy and very focused on their jobs. Which includes understanding their industry, but only as a relatively small fraction of their time.
[1] http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-11-17/
Updated to add: I have no idea what goes on inside Salesforce; this view comes mainly from 25 years of reading the business press.
Re: It’s time to say goodbye
#43So, I'll take the domain if you don't want it anymore...
I was just wondering how much less time a website owner will be willing to stick it out on a sinking business for each additional dollar of domain name value. It's got to be a lot more tempting to bail on a site when it means you can sell "do.com" than if the site is "PeanutsForUglyDonkeys.com".
I daresay I'm not all that surprised your domain suggestion was registered today.
Re: It’s time to say goodbye
#44Shutdown stories are a braggart form of "fuck you." Early adopters just have to be careful not to rely on ventures by founders that have a history of creating a little value only to throw it all away later.
For the Nth time, for unsold ventures, don't just shutdown if you get bored of something, find a buyer! Not only might this make you some money, it may also salvage your rep for not being someone that abandons their base mercurially.
Re: It’s time to say goodbye
#45Do is Done. Thanks, Salesforce! Your purchase of Manymoon and subsequent shutdown of it instills Google-like levels of confidence in your product offerings!
Salesforce is under zero pressure to care what anybody outside of it's extremely profitable walled garden thinks.
*its extremely profitable
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#46Asana is poised to own the task management space.
i dont think so. i have used asana for my team and couldnt make it stick. we used trello which was better but isn't perfect either. it just seems to me that I shouldn't have to learn another software just to organize my to-do list.
Re: It’s time to say goodbye
#47Asana is poised to own the task management space.
i dont think so. i have used asana for my team and couldnt make it stick. we used trello which was better but isn't perfect either. it just seems to me that I shouldn't have to learn another software just to organize my to-do list.
Re: It’s time to say goodbye
#48You can always switch to getblimp.com. (Shameless plug by a cofounder).
Re: It’s time to say goodbye
#49Asana is poised to own the task management space.
We've had to use asana for a particular customer project recently and it's really not that great. For me trello is a far better implementation of task management.
Re: It’s time to say goodbye
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was just wondering how much less time a website owner will be willing to stick it out on a sinking business for each additional dollar of domain name value. It's got to be a lot more tempting to bail on a site when it means you can sell "do.com" than if the site is "PeanutsForUglyDonkeys.com".
I daresay I'm not all that surprised your domain suggestion was registered today.
Ha! I was secretly hoping that I'd cost the owner of some bot a wasted registration fee. Now let's all go visit so that they project a profit before the refund grace period ends.