Thats an odd bit of news. I'm in the CRM market (http://www.radiumcrm.com) and as a competitor I always admired the product. It was a very clean UI, had some nice features and was a good complement to the behemoth that is Salesforce. I can't imagine why they would shut it down.
It’s time to say goodbye
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#12Do 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.
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#13Do 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.
Maybe. But that goodbye post is a joke. No facts, no reason, just a friendly fuck you.
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#14Do 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.
Is Salesforce extremely profitable?
http://beta.fool.com/boriskabinov/2012/08/13/will-salesforce...
http://www.informationweek.com/software/enterprise-applicati...
Looks like the answer is... not yet. (maybe never?)
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#15What does Do do?
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#16do NOT
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#17What does Do do?
hah
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#18So, I'll take the domain if you don't want it anymore...
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#19Thats an odd bit of news. I'm in the CRM market ( http://www.radiumcrm.com ) and as a competitor I always admired the product. It was a very clean UI, had some nice features and was a good complement to the behemoth that is Salesforce. I can't imagine why they would shut it down.
I can only agree. Do had a really clean, intuitive design. I didn't used it on a daily basis, but - just like latraveler - I was checking out the competition for my company's product a couple of years ago. Out of all the todo list apps I signed up for (and hell, there sure is a lot to choose from), Do was actually the easiest one to use, basically everything was where I expected it to be. It had the perfect balance between the Basecamp feature-rich but complex UI and the glamorous but over-simplified Wunderlist.
Also they must have payed a fortune for their domain, Salesforce probably intends to reuse it soon.
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#20What does Do do?
That's the beauty of it... it doesn't do anything!