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Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps

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Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps

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Post by darklajid »

bretthellman wrote: post #4
bambax wrote: post #2

I 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…

Hi bambax, I'm one of the founders here at Hall. Apologies for any frustration... Does visiting our landing page help? https://hall.com . If not, send me an email at brett @ hall-inc.com . I'd be happy to give you a live demo.

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?

Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps

#12

Post by iusable »

About time! Besides the hype & price of Yammer, it really sucks at real-time comms for teams smaller than 5-6.

I have never had a chance to use it with a bigger team but at that size they have abysmal state management - if you have more than 1 conversation && use more than 1 device = notification_hell. Its just silly how badly they manage this stuff.

Just discovered Hall earlier today and so far, so good! Good job @bretthellman & team.

Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps

#13

Post by mmatants »

bretthellman wrote: post #4
bambax wrote: post #2

I 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…

Hi bambax, I'm one of the founders here at Hall. Apologies for any frustration... Does visiting our landing page help? https://hall.com . If not, send me an email at brett @ hall-inc.com . I'd be happy to give you a live demo.

This is a bit off-topic, but since you posted here - the "hall" logo in header could use tighter kerning between the "a" and the first "l".

Also, I personally found the landing page pretty useful in terms of explaining the core user stories (group chat, 1v1, file sharing), so kudos from me.

Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps

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Post by bambax »

bretthellman wrote: post #4
bambax wrote: post #2

I 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…

Hi bambax, I'm one of the founders here at Hall. Apologies for any frustration... Does visiting our landing page help? https://hall.com . If not, send me an email at brett @ hall-inc.com . I'd be happy to give you a live demo.

> Does visiting our landing page help?

Yes, thanks (although one needs to scroll to get the information); apparently Hall is a group chat solution for the enterprise? Seems nice and useful.

I had no problem with Hall BTW, but with how the article was written.

Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps

#15

Post by bretthellman »

iusable wrote: post #12

About time! Besides the hype & price of Yammer, it really sucks at real-time comms for teams smaller than 5-6. I have never had a chance to use it with a bigger team but at that size they have abysmal state management - if you have more than 1 conversation && use more than 1 device = notification_hell. Its just silly how badly they manage this stuff. Just discovered Hall earlier today and so far, so good! Good job @b…

Thanks iusable! If you'd like, connect with me on hall here:

https://hall.com/brett

It would be great to chat, hear your feedback on hall and where we're headed. Thanks

Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps

#16

Post by bretthellman »

nferiuernjkf wrote: post #3
bambax wrote: post #2

I 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…

Full disclosure: Yammer is owned and operated by Microsoft.

Yes

Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps

#17

Post by bretthellman »

darklajid wrote: post #11
bretthellman wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi bambax, I'm one of the founders here at Hall. Apologies for any frustration... Does visiting our landing page help? https://hall.com . If not, send me an email at brett @ hall-inc.com . I'd be happy to give you a live demo.

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 Backbone.js, Node, Zepto. If you're curious to learn more I'm sure our CTO would be happy to write an engineering post when he has a moment. Let me know.

Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps

#18

Post by ronadams »

mmatants wrote: post #13
bretthellman wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi bambax, I'm one of the founders here at Hall. Apologies for any frustration... Does visiting our landing page help? https://hall.com . If not, send me an email at brett @ hall-inc.com . I'd be happy to give you a live demo.

This is a bit off-topic, but since you posted here - the "hall" logo in header could use tighter kerning between the "a" and the first "l". Also, I personally found the landing page pretty useful in terms of explaining the core user stories (group chat, 1v1, file sharing), so kudos from me.

Wow, thanks mmatants. I like your eye for detail re: our logo. I'd love to hear more about your feelings about the app itself. (I'm CTO of Hall btw.) Thanks for checking it out!

Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps

#19

Post by ronadams »

darklajid wrote: post #11
bretthellman wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi bambax, I'm one of the founders here at Hall. Apologies for any frustration... Does visiting our landing page help? https://hall.com . If not, send me an email at brett @ hall-inc.com . I'd be happy to give you a live demo.

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.

Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps

#20

Post by darklajid »

ronadams wrote: post #19
darklajid wrote: post #11

Earlier 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.

Hey, I'll forward that internally (it seems we are going to introduce a solution like yours/yammers in the near future, based on the "I want this!!" face I saw today).

But yeah, more technical information would be nice. I would _guess_ (wildly, with little information..) that your standard target customer is the management type - at least that's what the website shows me right now (and 'six times faster than some unknown enterprise solutions' is really .. weird).

If you go for more technical details or really just more "Look, this is why we're doing cool stuff" posts: I'd be interested to learn more.

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