Woobius introduces the construction industry to 21st century collaboration
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#2Dragging industries into the current century always seems like a great idea. But, there's often a reason why the industry is still stuck where they are, and it's usually not technical. (I can't say I haven't been tempted to try this on more than one occasion, though. So many industries are so old school as to be painful for a nerd to even look at. So much time being wasted every day on old processes and methods, it's quite sad.)
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#3Congrats Daniel. It's like Basecamp for architects. Re: your TC comment - is that 3000 users or customers?
Re: Woobius introduces the construction industry to 21st century collaboration
#4Dragging industries into the current century always seems like a great idea. But, there's often a reason why the industry is still stuck where they are, and it's usually not technical. (I can't say I haven't been tempted to try this on more than one occasion, though. So many industries are so old school as to be painful for a nerd to even look at. So much time being wasted every day on old processes and methods, it's…
100% agree. Woobius's success so far is not due to some especially advanced technology, but to the fact that we're strongly connected in that industry (Bob, my cofounder, is himself an architect) and so we've been able to build a tool that adapts to the way they already work, rather than trying to force them into some new processes.
Essentially, what allows us to reach this market is the user interface work rather than the hard technology, if you see what I mean.
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#5Congrats Daniel. It's like Basecamp for architects. Re: your TC comment - is that 3000 users or customers?
Thanks. It's users, sadly :-) But we'll get there...
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#6I think the title (and article) is a little over the top. The audit trail is a nice feature but the rest is just sharing files?
The real problems are in annotating these drawings collaboratively, merging separate parts and layers of buildings and in general managing the actual flow of information in a design process instead of merely the drawings. Solutions with versioning IFC files, IFD libraries and solving the problems in this area are far more important (and complicated unfortunately). Think like: Which parts of the building were modified in the last version by the architects and how does that influence the building costs? Is the old construction still valid and if not which parts cause conflicts, etc...
EDIT: I forgot to mention that the innovation that woobius does on the user interface side is really great and that they managed to get featured on techcrunch is also great to get more attention to this topic, so all the good to them!
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#7It would be a cold day in hell before I decided to engage the services of a company called "Woobius".
Seriously, am I the only person on earth who thinks all these new startup names are just utterly stupid? What are these people thinking? "Woobius"!
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#8It would be a cold day in hell before I decided to engage the services of a company called "Woobius". Seriously, am I the only person on earth who thinks all these new startup names are just utterly stupid ? What are these people thinking? "Woobius"!
I look past names and use them for the problems they solve.
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#9It would be a cold day in hell before I decided to engage the services of a company called "Woobius". Seriously, am I the only person on earth who thinks all these new startup names are just utterly stupid ? What are these people thinking? "Woobius"!
I look past names and use them for the problems they solve.
Well, more power to you I suppose. I just see it as laziness on the part of the founder, and I can't overlook it.
edit: you can mod me down all you like, swombat, but I'm just stating what I think, and I doubt I am alone.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I look past names and use them for the problems they solve.
Well, more power to you I suppose. I just see it as laziness on the part of the founder, and I can't overlook it. edit: you can mod me down all you like, swombat, but I'm just stating what I think, and I doubt I am alone.
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