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Didn't you signup for google docs as well?
I signed up to Gmail in 2004, but not to Google Docs. At least voluntarily, you know what I mean.
So you prefer to use a product that signs you up involuntarily? Interesting.
Introducing Quip
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I just checked it out and really like it. My primary use case would be a tool to replace or augment a wiki. What types of feedback are you most interested in receiving?
Any and all
Someone else may have mentioned it, but it's really annoying not to be able to do a regular signup through gmail. I don't trust anyone to manage my contacts I'm afraid. Perhaps make those components optional, but just use them for auth?
Re: Introducing Quip
#103It's always surreal to read Hacker News threads about the stuff you make. Harsh, but realistic. Anyway, I am Bret Taylor, co-founder of Quip. I am here if you have any questions, etc. (Also posted responses on the existing thread already). Just to clarify a couple of points I have read: 1. We do support desktops. We have a really nice web app. It is Chrome/Firefox only right now. 2. We have an Android app. It is a "p…
Not Really FF/Cr Only.
http://snag.gy/SzUHK.jpg http://snag.gy/cTUOA.jpg
(Tested on IE11 preview on win7. I dont have earlier versions.)
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
I signed up to Gmail in 2004, but not to Google Docs. At least voluntarily, you know what I mean.
So you prefer to use a product that signs you up involuntarily? Interesting.
It would definitely be interesting if that were what I meant. Unfortunately it isn’t.
Re: Introducing Quip
#105It's always surreal to read Hacker News threads about the stuff you make. Harsh, but realistic. Anyway, I am Bret Taylor, co-founder of Quip. I am here if you have any questions, etc. (Also posted responses on the existing thread already). Just to clarify a couple of points I have read: 1. We do support desktops. We have a really nice web app. It is Chrome/Firefox only right now. 2. We have an Android app. It is a "p…
There are some weird bugs while using CJK IMEs. It affects Chrome and IE11. It may be caused by wrongly processing key stroke events which is modified by IMEs.
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#106Great stuff. Never easy tackling such an entrenced market. I have a few suggestions though as someone that not only actively uses Google Docs but practically forces people I work with to do so too. 1. How do I make this appear in my existin Google Docs folder? I really do not want to have another place for my documents. 2. The pricing of Google Docs makes it really hard to beat. How does quip plan to fight that? 3. S…
>> 1. Be the best at something and come inthrough the flanks. E.g the best way to edit your DropBox documents (I actually thought Dropbox would have launched a document processor by now). Coming through the flanks will remove the weight of expextation and at the same time allow people to
What's a DropBox document? I have Word documents in my Dropbox, PDFS, photos, spreadsheets. I don't have Dropbox documents.
Re: Introducing Quip
#107It's always surreal to read Hacker News threads about the stuff you make. Harsh, but realistic. Anyway, I am Bret Taylor, co-founder of Quip. I am here if you have any questions, etc. (Also posted responses on the existing thread already). Just to clarify a couple of points I have read: 1. We do support desktops. We have a really nice web app. It is Chrome/Firefox only right now. 2. We have an Android app. It is a "p…
Hi, Bret, Quip looks good. As a tech blog editor, I think Quip is a great place to review essays with my colleagues, we can exchange our opinions in real-time.
For now I only have one question——does Quip have any plan to support Markdown?
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it's the former CTO of Facebook. My guess is no rep needed.
No rep needed if all they want is coverage. If they want to craft the message, they still need PR. The job just changes from selling the story to getting the right people to cover it in the right way. That's why Apple still takes PR very seriously even though the media are going to cover all of their product launches anyway.
I think he meant "No rep needed [to get NYTimes to publish to their schedule]", not an overall piece of business advice
Re: Introducing Quip
#109It's always surreal to read Hacker News threads about the stuff you make. Harsh, but realistic. Anyway, I am Bret Taylor, co-founder of Quip. I am here if you have any questions, etc. (Also posted responses on the existing thread already). Just to clarify a couple of points I have read: 1. We do support desktops. We have a really nice web app. It is Chrome/Firefox only right now. 2. We have an Android app. It is a "p…
I've played with it for 5 minutes on the Desktop and I like it, but so far I've got two questions:
1. There are links in "Introduction to Quip", but I can't see how I would insert a link myself. Not being able to do that would be kind of a deal breaker.
2. I also can't see how to revert a document to an earlier state, which given Quips wiki-like features is pretty crucial.
Re: Introducing Quip
#110It's always surreal to read Hacker News threads about the stuff you make. Harsh, but realistic. Anyway, I am Bret Taylor, co-founder of Quip. I am here if you have any questions, etc. (Also posted responses on the existing thread already). Just to clarify a couple of points I have read: 1. We do support desktops. We have a really nice web app. It is Chrome/Firefox only right now. 2. We have an Android app. It is a "p…
App looks great Bret. One question - given the focus on collaboration and mobility and the very minimal formatting feature set, why the positioning as a word processor rather than a OneNote/Wiki/Collab note taking tool?
I had the same thinking. I think Microsoft OneNote is the example to follow in mobile. Microsoft had tried to port it to mobile devices but that is not the real desktop OneNote.
Back in the iPhone 2g era I was developing a personal wiki with a WYSIWYG UI but I stopped because I needed to use a lot of hidden UITextView/WebView object methods that were not approved by Apple policies or write my own editor engine. Many years later I don't see this kind of wiki in the App Store (no, it's not EverNote).