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This looks awesome. When I installed it, the first thing I am greeted with is a screen asking me to enter my email address. Given that my email is a Gmail addr
by marcamillion 13y ago
This looks awesome.
When I installed it, the first thing I am greeted with is a screen asking me to enter my email address. Given that my email is a Gmail address, it notifies me about wanting to manage my contacts and something else (that was the first off-putting step in my experience). I just met you, and your hands are already going down my pants.
Then once I got in, the 1st or 2nd screen inside is about adding friends because it is better when you collaborate.
The only reason I saw the 'Skip' in the top right is because I was really looking for a way not to do this.
So I think the issue I have with this workflow is that the expectations that the landing page set are one thing (i.e. awesome document creation on mobile devices) and then the experience is pushing me into a "hand-over-your-address-book-and-get-to-sharing" experience right off the bat.
I get the whole "viral loop" thingy, and baking it into the product experience, but I feel like it would leave a better taste in my mouth if I was nudged into it - rather than broadsided.
That being said, I am likely to continue using it and playing with it (because of the potential value that a word processor made for an iPad can have).
I was just put off by that digging into my address book experience...that's all.
- benhoyt 13y agoTotally agreed -- I'm skipping it for now. "View my contacts" would have been one thing, but "manage"? Be nice if one could try the tool and invite friends later.
- finiteloop 13y agoWe don't save your contacts. We use it to find existing contacts on Quip. Sorry it isn't an option. -- Bret
- dakrisht 13y agoWhy not offer a $1.99 version without having to create an account. Everything these days is "create an account", "allow access to contacts", "sync with FB" - gets annoying.
- benhoyt 13y agoOkay, I tried it based on this. Ideally one could opt into this step, but I think if it either said 1) "view your contacts" or 2) you simply wrote "We never change your contacts or save them on our servers" or similar -- that'd do it, I think. BTW, once in, I really like it! Simple, elegant, but not too simple (e.g., it supports basic tables).
- _cbdev 13y agoI don't get why a word-processing app (which is mainly what Quip wants to do, if I got that right) would need my email address as a _base_ feature. If collaboration and sharing and social and the like (the last one of which is a huge red flag for me) are an _optional_ feature of a word processor, thats fine. But as a basic requirement for usage? I'd rather not have that.
- samstave 13y agoSadly, I think this suffers from one of Facebooks greatest and worst issues: "WHO WOULDN'T WANT TO SHARE THIS, NOW!!!" >"Uhm... because; Fuck You, that's why" I would suggest a much more clever way to virility; Help me actually MAKE something I WANT to share... How about a tutorial on how to build an utterly awesome [document] thaat I just must share! An invite, a how-to, op-ed...something!! Here is an app that is looking to re-define how word processing is done, with a social context built-in - yet fails to provide a compelling reason, way, example, on how that should be done. If word procs are so broken, give me an exciting example of how you fix it.
- marcamillion 13y agoI would suggest a much more clever way to virility; Help me actually MAKE something I WANT to share... How about a tutorial on how to build an utterly awesome [document] thaat I just must share! An invite, a how-to, op-ed...something!! This is actually pretty clever. Bret and Team...not to be presumptuous to offer you guys advice, but I think this could be very useful. Picture this....the way make/consume documents has changed drastically since Word was initially created. There could be a VERY powerful viral loop in here somewhere, but I don't think it is on the surface. If you guys built it into the document type being created, e.g. you made some nifty tools that allow me to make 'wedding/party invites' from scratch (with some sexy templates or features that add significant value to the creation of an invite) - then you add the address book/viral element built into that process, once it is done - it makes total sense. Once they create an invite, they want to share it. The same is likely true for other document types - e.g. Resumes, Basic Flyers (say for Yard Sales, etc.), article that needs to be proof-read before submitting (like an op-ed), a school paper, certain legal documents, etc. So, I guess what I am saying is....if you take a step back and think about different document types that people might want to create. Then you build tools to make the creation of each of those documents easier, than say using Photoshop, Word or Google Docs - then you build in the viral loop into the appropriate document types that make sense for you to share it. I think THAT would be revolutionary.
- eitally 13y agoThink VistaPrint and their free business cards... free as long as you let them print their logo on the back. :)
- samstave 13y agoSadly, I think this suffers from one of Facebooks greatest and worst issues: "WHO WOULDN'T WANT TO SHARE THIS, NOW!!!" >"Uhm... because; Fuck You, that's why" I would suggest a much more clever way to virility; Help me actually MAKE something I WANT to share... How about a tutorial on how to build an utterly awesome [document] thaat I just must share! An invite, a how-to, op-ed...something!! Here is an app that is looking to re-define how word processing is done, with a social context built-in - yet fails to provide a compelling reason, way, example, on how that should be done. If word procs are so broken, give me an exciting example of how you fix it.
- stef25 13y ago> I was just put off by that digging into my address book experience...that's all. There's absolutely no need for it in a word processor, this social stuff can't die fast enough imho.