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People comment about tangents in articles all of the time on here :) I have to agree though. It looks good. Sexy even. Producing financials seems bold, but the

by josh33 16y ago

People comment about tangents in articles all of the time on here :) I have to agree though. It looks good. Sexy even. Producing financials seems bold, but the app appears capable of doing alot of bold things like calendaring and mail. Once they get imap enabled, that tool will be powerful.

win_ini 16y ago
"Producing financials seems bold, but the app appears capable of doing alot of bold things like calendaring and mail. Once they get imap enabled, that tool will be powerful." Sorry - I couldn't help but chuckle. Saying the app appears capable of doing "calendaring and mail" is like saying that new Chevy Volt can drive like a car. There are a shit-ton of apps and systems that deliver mail and calendaring very well already, this is just another client. Enabling IMAP is like saying "and now the chevy volt can fill up from a regular gas station too if you're stuck somewhere" - yeah, just like a prius..." As I read through the demo page - I was struck several times by how rule.fm seems like a cool app, but seems to be trying to boil the ocean. Rule.fm Money for CFOs? Any company that has a CFO would likely not be able to run this as their CRM (which is basically what it seems like this system is). This sounds like a salesforce.com-lite CRM system that is web 2.0 looking, but has no API (from what I can tell). While a techcrunch article is nice and cool, and I applaud them for getting to a techcrunch article - the software seems to a solution in search of a problem that has already been solved before... Each use case they present seems a bit simplistic and limited. That's my $0.02, but I'm looking forward to checking it out in more detail to see if they have actually innovated in solving any of these business problems (Ticket tracking, financials, Contact management, etc.) rather than just simplifying it into something that works for a 2 person company - but needs to be dumped when you hit 5 people.

by josh33 16y ago

win_ini 16y ago

"Producing financials seems bold, but the app appears capable of doing alot of bold things like calendaring and mail. Once they get imap enabled, that tool will be powerful." Sorry - I couldn't help but chuckle. Saying the app appears capable of doing "calendaring and mail" is like saying that new Chevy Volt can drive like a car. There are a shit-ton of apps and systems that deliver mail and calendaring very well already, this is just another client. Enabling IMAP is like saying "and now the chevy volt can fill up from a regular gas station too if you're stuck somewhere" - yeah, just like a prius..." As I read through the demo page - I was struck several times by how rule.fm seems like a cool app, but seems to be trying to boil the ocean. Rule.fm Money for CFOs? Any company that has a CFO would likely not be able to run this as their CRM (which is basically what it seems like this system is). This sounds like a salesforce.com-lite CRM system that is web 2.0 looking, but has no API (from what I can tell). While a techcrunch article is nice and cool, and I applaud them for getting to a techcrunch article - the software seems to a solution in search of a problem that has already been solved before... Each use case they present seems a bit simplistic and limited. That's my $0.02, but I'm looking forward to checking it out in more detail to see if they have actually innovated in solving any of these business problems (Ticket tracking, financials, Contact management, etc.) rather than just simplifying it into something that works for a 2 person company - but needs to be dumped when you hit 5 people.