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Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A Whole New Level
- jmtame 16y agocongrats jake and wil! this solves a problem i have nearly every time i meet with someone new. i'll look them up on facebook and linkedin, i'll try to figure out more about them or at least get a picture so i know who i'm looking for. noteleaf makes this a lot faster and easier. it's one of those problems that's not excruciating, but it's so repetitive that it becomes very annoying to do manually. i'm not sure how much you've thought about making it easy to remember things about people but that's still a pain point for me.
- iamwil 16y agoWe started with remembering things about people, and found that the simple way to do that was to take notes. However, note taking has such a high barrier to entry, that we ended up pivoting here. However, I think there's different ways about it that we'll play with down the line if we revisit the topic.
- mmelin 16y agoSince you already know when I'm meeting with someone, I would love to be pinged shortly after the meeting and prompted to add some notes while it's still fresh in my mind. I'm not very good at taking notes during meetings, but would love to be able to record a short summary afterwards (with the recording being saved with metadata about which meeting it applies to - having this would have been invaluable to me in certain situations in the past)
- yesimahuman 16y agoAh! That's just like a side project my old startup and I had called "Fready." Basically Fready gives you news on the people you are meeting with before you meet with them. It uses NLP to pull out any names/companies/locations from a google calendar event to give you pretty relevant news. Here is an old blog post about it: http://blog.getfready.com/ http://blog.getfready.com/ Perhaps we should have pitched it at our YC interview... Unfortunately I took it down recently but it might be a good time to bring it back.
- jmtame 16y agodid you use a particular ranking function for information retrieval or text analysis like bm25? i'd be curious
- tuhin 16y agoPerhaps the best and the worst thing for the app are interdependencies on other apps/service like Gmail and LinkedIN. I am sure they will be adding other email services as well as Outlook support. Let's face it a lot many people are still stuck to Outlook/MS Exchange servers for office emails.
- old-gregg 16y agoCongrats guys!
- rgrieselhuber 16y agoCongrats guys!
- drusenko 16y agoholy shit, i just got super excited about this. if it works as advertised, it will be absolutely amazing. i would easily pay for it.
- daveambrose 16y agoCongrats will!
- aschobel 16y agoCongrats, super simple sign up and great VxD. When will you offer SSL on your account create / login forms? I'm hesitating connecting my Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar.
- iamwil 16y agoYes, we'll be adding SSL to the account create / login soon. It's very high on our current list of things to do. :)
- aschobel 16y agoSweet! I noticed you are using Woopra, how is that working out?
- iamwil 16y agoEvery time someone loads a page, a circle explodes out of where the person's located. It makes the world look like an earthquake zone. Beyond that, it's pretty good. I can things coming in live, which is nice.
- bricestacey 16y agoI think it's strange that the meeting location is at the very bottom, below all the contextual info. It seems that should be higher.
- jeremymims 16y agoCongratulations Wil! I love the pivot.
- twakefield 16y agoCongrats guys and great TC article. I had a hard time conceptualizing Noteleaf until I read the article. Brilliant.
- jetaries 16y agoCongrats. You can shave for PDay now.
- chaostheory 16y agoCongrats Wil!!! I still remember mobtropolis man
- iamwil 16y agoHaha, thanks. I still have the domain, but I haven't put it back up. It's on Rails 2.3.8, and I haven't had a chance to port it.
- vgurgov 16y agoCongrats Jake and Will! Great progress since last time i checked noteleaf! Must be YC gave some great feedback :))
- iamelgringo 16y agoCongrats, guys! I'm really happy for you. It's been amazing to see how you guys have kicked ass over the past two years. I'm still got that $40 waiting for you to fix my email problem, though. :)
- lordmax 16y agoawesome job Jake & Will!
- nbashaw 16y agoI recognize the "frame" graphics on the homepage from keynote. Very scrappy - good quality design accents with nearly 0 time or money. I like it.