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Nice app. BUT: 1, It looks a lot like the ( now defunct? ) ycombinator startup http://www.writewith.com/ http://www.writewith.com/, which didn't gain any real
by ktharavaad 17y ago
Nice app. BUT:
1, It looks a lot like the ( now defunct? ) ycombinator startup http://www.writewith.com/ http://www.writewith.com/, which didn't gain any real traction.
2, For general purpose editing task, I find the realtime editor etherpad a lot more useful.
- SwellJoe 17y agoI came to mention that I definitely had seen this before...WriteWith performed a strikingly similar task in a very similar way, and despite pretty good execution (certainly very good technical execution, maybe not as strong as needed on biz dev or raising money) failed to go anywhere. I got the impression the guys realized somewhere along the way that they were building a cool solution looking for a problem...the market just didn't seem to be there. Maybe that was just that the market is not yet educated enough on rapid collaboration and shared creation (as Joe Kraus says, "being early feels a lot like being wrong")...but maybe it's something more serious.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoI was pretty sure I'd seen this before too but writewith isn't ringing any bells ...? I do have a terrible memory. But the tag-line then puts me off before I've started. Why wouldn't someone just use Zoho or Google Docs? I do like your handwritten-style annotated edits, but that doesn't seem enough. You definitely need to lose the mouldy pink though, with that heavy gray too, bleurgh. Don't take your design cues from hacker sites! Gray for the edit box parts that you're looking at all day, fine, not for whole site - it's bad juju! Your logo is the inverse of Zoho's - which appears to be an attempt to create confusion (or it will to a high paid lawyer) and is also that of Novell's Zen application distribution system IIRC, I think they have lots of lawyers too. Why didn't you choose "R"? fwiw