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My partner and I were talking about Quip earlier — the online document editor from 2012. It doesn’t matter how little you differentiate yourself from your comp

My partner and I were talking about Quip earlier — the online document editor from 2012. It doesn’t matter how little you differentiate yourself from your competitor (Google Docs): if they suck even slightly and you don’t, people will use you instead, and you will win. I guess Quip was a buttery Google Docs.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
Funny enough, I never heard of Quip until now. Looks like Salesforce bought it.
- milch 2y ago
  We use it at work and honestly I'd rather have Google Docs. Very limited formatting (why are there only 3 levels of headings?), very slow interface (why does it take what feels like 30s to load a folder with 25 entries in it?) and the search feature might as well not exist. When I write a Quip doc I basically have to realize and rationalize to myself that I am not going to be able to find it again in the future. So much time lost to "anyone else have the link to...". It's a black hole that allows real time collaborative editing and comments. Sometimes they'll have spells of a few hours to weeks where comments or edits are randomly lost. Randomly the UI will also pop up a 500 or 503 error, which never inspires confidence that it is actually saving my edits. I basically do all my writing in markdown locally, then copy it into Quip — both so I have a local copy I can full text search on and so that if it has one of its random fits I don't lose a half day of work. (You can also very easily get the UI in an inconsistent state. I forget what the exact sequence is for the one I found most recently but it is something like: if you position your cursor after an image, and there is an empty line and then a line with a header, and you press forward delete, it'll get rid of both line and the header. Clicking undo won't get the header back, it'll only reappear when you refresh the page)
esafak 2y ago
They'll use you if they are informing purchasing decisions.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago

Funny enough, I never heard of Quip until now. Looks like Salesforce bought it.

milch 2y ago
We use it at work and honestly I'd rather have Google Docs. Very limited formatting (why are there only 3 levels of headings?), very slow interface (why does it take what feels like 30s to load a folder with 25 entries in it?) and the search feature might as well not exist. When I write a Quip doc I basically have to realize and rationalize to myself that I am not going to be able to find it again in the future. So much time lost to "anyone else have the link to...". It's a black hole that allows real time collaborative editing and comments. Sometimes they'll have spells of a few hours to weeks where comments or edits are randomly lost. Randomly the UI will also pop up a 500 or 503 error, which never inspires confidence that it is actually saving my edits. I basically do all my writing in markdown locally, then copy it into Quip — both so I have a local copy I can full text search on and so that if it has one of its random fits I don't lose a half day of work. (You can also very easily get the UI in an inconsistent state. I forget what the exact sequence is for the one I found most recently but it is something like: if you position your cursor after an image, and there is an empty line and then a line with a header, and you press forward delete, it'll get rid of both line and the header. Clicking undo won't get the header back, it'll only reappear when you refresh the page)

esafak 2y ago

They'll use you if they are informing purchasing decisions.