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Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by bigbang »

sgupta wrote: post #2

I'm Shawn, one of the ididwork.com founders. We'd like to know what you think about the service. Please leave any feedback here or email us at feedback [at] ididwork (dot) com.

The only concern I have is, I might not want to give details to somebody on the tasks Im working(since the projects whatever I do in my company are confidential). This could be a genunine problem for most company employees but for personal tracking its great.

EDIT: Same concern over rescuetime which sends all the corporate urls to thier server?

Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by vlad »

Voted up. The exact idea I hyped to everyone (and wrote on my name tag) at YCombinator's Startup School and reception in April, so I know it has potential. And registered at Dynadot 3 days ago, the domain registrar I introduced News.YC to this Spring. ;) So, at least you got one vote :). And I know other founders of existing YC companies loved the idea as well.

Good thing that of the two YCombinator founders who were there at the reception, I only talked to Trevor about the idea, and not PG--otherwise I would be pretty upset! Oh well, I'm actually going back to college this Fall per PG's new advice to finish college--after following the old advice to drop out of college--so that's fine that somebody made this. (Had I applied to the summer round, I would have probably been rejected, given that an app like this takes 5 people to make.) The implementation looks good! Good luck!

Obviously, I'm not particularly excited to hear this news, since I was thinking about this idea every day, but on the other hand, it will make it easier when my app launches since it would have been previously demonstrated as a proven idea by somebody else.

Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by remanc »

bigbang wrote: post #11
sgupta wrote: post #2

I'm Shawn, one of the ididwork.com founders. We'd like to know what you think about the service. Please leave any feedback here or email us at feedback [at] ididwork (dot) com.

The only concern I have is, I might not want to give details to somebody on the tasks Im working(since the projects whatever I do in my company are confidential). This could be a genunine problem for most company employees but for personal tracking its great. EDIT: Same concern over rescuetime which sends all the corporate urls to thier server?

I'm the other cofounder. That's something we're working to alleviate concerns for - we've added hackersafe and verisign (and truste's on the roadmap) so the data is secure and the session is encrypted. It's definitely something we want our users to be comfortable with, and something we're working on.

Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by bigbang »

remanc wrote: post #14
bigbang wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only concern I have is, I might not want to give details to somebody on the tasks Im working(since the projects whatever I do in my company are confidential). This could be a genunine problem for most company employees but for personal tracking its great. EDIT: Same concern over rescuetime which sends all the corporate urls to thier server?

I'm the other cofounder. That's something we're working to alleviate concerns for - we've added hackersafe and verisign (and truste's on the roadmap) so the data is secure and the session is encrypted. It's definitely something we want our users to be comfortable with, and something we're working on.

Right. But my actual concern was not that a middleman is snooping, but the concern of giving the data to ididwork.com. Its not that data is not secure, but I think companies might be just simply paranoid(for no reason maybe). A hosted solution within thier control might be one of the solutions. Again, might be people are ok with that and its just my thought.

Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by gojomo »

I like the idea and initial basic implementation. I can see a lot of potential.

The name has problems, though. First, it seems a bit defensive: "Look, I did work!" Second, it looks/sounds a little like 'idiotwork'.

There are tons of themes and word fragments to work with for 'team microblogging of work tasks with metrics', so I think with a little effort you could have a very memorable, meaningful name.

Good luck!

Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by remanc »

colinplamondon wrote: post #13

Bookmarklet incoming? Or, better yet, a Quicksilver plugin? Looks great but it's the kind of thing that I'd only use if it's easy to get information into, ala Twitter.

Definitely. One of our top priorities at the moment is adding more (and quicker) channels of input into the system.

Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by kleevr »

sgupta wrote: post #2

I'm Shawn, one of the ididwork.com founders. We'd like to know what you think about the service. Please leave any feedback here or email us at feedback [at] ididwork (dot) com.

I could see myself using a tool like this for my freelance work which is usually 'task based'. I would probably use tags like 'paid', and 'unpaid'. It would be helpful if it had time element for tracking hours too.
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