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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 rokhayakebe »

vlad wrote: post #12

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…

Why not let the guys take a look at what you have and hopefully you can come together and increase the chances at becoming successful.

Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by brlewis »

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.

All you really need is a way for companies to pay you and get a contractual obligation for privacy.

Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by tstegart »

remanc wrote: post #18
how_gauche wrote: post #16

How are you planning on making money, exactly?

Later on we're planning on charging managers/companies that want to use this as a tool to manage multiple teams and employees. We'll never charge the users that are using it as an individual account.

How does your software fit in with the purpose of timesheet software? I know they're not the same, but people have to enter this information for timesheets to bill clients. I know that people put that off all the time, so if they had to do this as well it would be a nightmare. How would you convince a company that already uses timesheet software to also use your software? I see one or the other becoming a repetitive task and the odd thing out that everybody starts to hate.

Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by tstegart »

aneesh wrote: post #8
peakok wrote: post #4

so for all the people who upvoted that "tired of Techcrunch, want direct links instead" story, let's take a new habit : direct link : http://www.ididwork.com/

It's actually nice to read TC's review in 2 minutes rather than spending 20 minutes on the site to discover all that stuff on my own.

yeah, but not making that logo a link to the site was freaking annoying!

Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by mynameishere »

arthurk wrote: post #23
gojomo wrote: post #17

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!

Good to know I'm not the only one, I actually read "idiotwork" the first time I skimmed the title.

Agreed. Name bad. Not just the "first time" for me, either. It continues to look like "idiotwork". Notice that a 'd' is basically an o and a t jammed together.

Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by remanc »

rokhayakebe wrote: post #30
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.

1- No need to login to use. Add Twitter support >. Add SMS support >. 2- Although being focused is good, it can be open to anyone as anyone can find a "use model" for it. eg students who want to track their progress throughout the semester (while using twitter).

1. We're looking to use other methods of input (im, email, etc) - not sure about using twitter since it's out in the public (whereas companies probably don't want that)

2. Yep. We're first focusing on companies because that's the one we're most familiar with. That being said, there's no reason a student couldn't use it the way it stands now ...

Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by remanc »

joseakle wrote: post #26
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.

great idea guys this is definitely something people want. i have a similar system, but much more rudimentary in place, i've got an email sent daily automatically to all teammembers asking them 2 questions. what did you do today? how long did each task take you? i hoped to do some reports but haven't done it since i must get the info out of the emails, so i was thinking on getting a webpage up where team members would…

Yep, we've gotten a lot of suggestions regarding 1) todo lists and 2) # hours a task took. We're trying to figure out the best way to do this since we're trying to preserve the simplicity of this site, while still giving users power options. Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by omakase »

I don't know if this exists in the states, but I know in Canada tech companies can submit credits for hours their employees log as R&D (it's a pretty loose definition). At many of the large companies that is the main reason they use timesheets.

If this exists here in the US and were integrated into ididwork somehow it might be a great way to get adoption from managers.

Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by russ »

vlad wrote: post #12

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…

quite obviously, it didn't take five people to make it.
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