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It’s time to say goodbye
- gesman 13y agoTo DO: You don't need to do anything. Your domain name will pull seven figures+ without you .... doing anything :)
- mamatta 13y agoSalesforce (the company behind do.com) is notorious for buying 2-4 letter domains. I'm sure they'll find another way to use it a few years from now.
- ErikAugust 13y agoData.com comes to mind.
- mamatta 13y agoDo.com, Desk.com, Social.com, Work.com, Force.com, Data.com Quite the list.
- ChikkaChiChi 13y agoDo is Done. Thanks, Salesforce! Your purchase of Manymoon and subsequent shutdown of it instills Google-like levels of confidence in your product offerings!
- rhizome 13y agoSalesforce is under zero pressure to care what anybody outside of it's extremely profitable walled garden thinks.
- amplification 13y agoIs Salesforce extremely profitable? http://beta.fool.com/boriskabinov/2012/08/13/will-salesforce-ever-make-profit/8950/ http://beta.fool.com/boriskabinov/2012/08/13/will-salesforce... http://www.informationweek.com/software/enterprise-applications/salesforcecom-revenues-surge-but-should/240142626 http://www.informationweek.com/software/enterprise-applicati... Looks like the answer is... not yet. (maybe never?)
- rhizome 13y agoHah, good point. I forgot about reality! Can we say "lucrative?" There are certainly some houses being bought with SF dollars.
- edwinnathaniel 13y ago> Why the big difference? For one thing, Salesforce.com's operating expenses rose 40% year over year to $656.3 million, with big increases in head count as well as research and development, sales and marketing, and general administrative expenses. > They want to be the market leader so they keep expanding as long as they have money. They can always reduce the headcounts and becomes profitable.
- mhartl 13y ago*its extremely profitable
- blowski 13y agoI have no idea why Do is closing down, but I'm guessing it has something to do with lack of ROI. Hence, Salesforce has a fiduciary duty to do so. This repeated criticism on HN of any company choosing to close down a service is bizarre.
- moreentropy 13y agoMaybe. But that goodbye post is a joke. No facts, no reason, just a friendly fuck you.
- joshcrowder 13y agoVery true, I received the email twice, insult to injury. "We are working on a way to export your data, So long suckerss!!!"
- wpietri 13y agoSoberly exercised fiduciary duty is probably around #15 on the reason why things get closed down. Other things that I expect are higher include a couple of key people leaving; a manager not liking another manager; an executive not really understanding the product, the audience, the market, or the potential; idiocy; somebody wanting their budget; somebody being envious of their success; somebody hating the guy who ok'd the acquisition; the departure of the guy who ok'd the acquisition; more idiocy; somebody suddenly needing to be seen as a bold and decisive leader; the need for a distraction; or it not being mauve [1]. There is no particular reason to think high-level executives at a company have a better understanding of one of their minor products than do the people who post here on Hacker News. Indeed, the people posting here demonstrably have a surplus of time, nosiness, and interest in the industry. High-level executives are generally insanely busy and very focused on their jobs. Which includes understanding their industry, but only as a relatively small fraction of their time. [1] http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-11-17/ http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-11-17/ Updated to add: I have no idea what goes on inside Salesforce; this view comes mainly from 25 years of reading the business press.
- aabalkan 13y agoWas this Any.do or not?
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- rsamvit 13y agoNo, Any.do is a different company
- elias12 13y agoTheir introduction video has the right context... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pN2OYy0_ok&feature=player_embedded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pN2OYy0_ok&feature=player_e...
- marincounty 13y agoI've never been to saleforce.toobig, but they are already irritating? Buying up this, and that, and closing them down.
- latraveler 13y agoThats an odd bit of news. I'm in the CRM market (http://www.radiumcrm.com http://www.radiumcrm.com) and as a competitor I always admired the product. It was a very clean UI, had some nice features and was a good complement to the behemoth that is Salesforce. I can't imagine why they would shut it down.
- lipanski 13y agoI can only agree. Do had a really clean, intuitive design. I didn't used it on a daily basis, but - just like latraveler - I was checking out the competition for my company's product a couple of years ago. Out of all the todo list apps I signed up for (and hell, there sure is a lot to choose from), Do was actually the easiest one to use, basically everything was where I expected it to be. It had the perfect balance between the Basecamp feature-rich but complex UI and the glamorous but over-simplified Wunderlist. Also they must have payed a fortune for their domain, Salesforce probably intends to reuse it soon.
- akadien 13y agoWhat does Do do?
- filipmares 13y agohah
- bcoates 13y agoThat's the beauty of it... it doesn't do anything!
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- CamperBob2 13y agoYou can do anything you want at do.com. The impossible is not a barrier at do.com. Welcome to do.com.
- otterley 13y agoI thought that was zombo.com.
- filipmares 13y agodo NOT
- filipmares 13y agodownvoting?!?!? no one likes Yoda? http://listdose.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Yoda.jpg http://listdose.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Yoda.jpg
- javajosh 13y agoSo, I'll take the domain if you don't want it anymore...
- mistercow 13y agoI was just wondering how much less time a website owner will be willing to stick it out on a sinking business for each additional dollar of domain name value. It's got to be a lot more tempting to bail on a site when it means you can sell "do.com" than if the site is "PeanutsForUglyDonkeys.com".
- Zancarius 13y agoI daresay I'm not all that surprised your domain suggestion was registered today.
- aegirth 13y agoI'm a Salesforce admin and I never understood why Salesforce didn't do more to integrate Do into their platform. The only thing they did was a half-assed AppExchange app which was nearly useless and had no direct integration with the core functionality (why have a collaboration platform if you can't feed it into your organization's data?). Then again, they probably just bought it mainly for the domain name.
- jtemplin 13y agoAsana is poised to own the task management space.
- slaxman 13y agoi dont think so. i have used asana for my team and couldnt make it stick. we used trello which was better but isn't perfect either. it just seems to me that I shouldn't have to learn another software just to organize my to-do list.
- slaxman 13y agoi dont think so. i have used asana for my team and couldnt make it stick. we used trello which was better but isn't perfect either. it just seems to me that I shouldn't have to learn another software just to organize my to-do list.
- simonswords82 13y agoWe've had to use asana for a particular customer project recently and it's really not that great. For me trello is a far better implementation of task management.
- collyw 13y agoSorry, a bit off topic, but am I the only one that finds that webpage really horrible to look at? The background makes me think I have a dirty screen. I find it quite unpleasant to look at.
- lot49a 13y agoLucky for you, you won't have to look at it ever again.
- billiam 13y agoIt's not do.com, it's doh.com.
- ihaveajob 13y agoBut you can still get hired there :) https://do.com/jobs https://do.com/jobs
- ChrisCinelli 13y agoIf you have a good idea about what to do with the do.com name, maybe they will give it to you if you partecipate to their $1M first price hackathon ;-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6614973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6614973
- ChrisCinelli 13y agoThe video they used for launch was great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7myUgmtFPkc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7myUgmtFPkc
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- ballard 13y agoShutdown stories are a braggart form of "fuck you." Early adopters just have to be careful not to rely on ventures by founders that have a history of creating a little value only to throw it all away later. For the Nth time, for unsold ventures, don't just shutdown if you get bored of something, find a buyer! Not only might this make you some money, it may also salvage your rep for not being someone that abandons their base mercurially.
- mcpherson 13y agoYou can always switch to getblimp.com. (Shameless plug by a cofounder).
- digitalmaster 13y agoOpensource source code??
- janlukacs 13y agoIf you're looking for an alternative check out Paymo 3.0 (shameless plug) - we've just entered public beta: http://www.paymo.biz/blog/paymo-3-0-beta-is-here/ http://www.paymo.biz/blog/paymo-3-0-beta-is-here/