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Two ideas, sort of corporate-customer oriented: - Output to email. - Host-it-yourself package. Established mid/large-sized companies are very leery of sensit
by ableal 17y ago
Two ideas, sort of corporate-customer oriented:
- Output to email.
- Host-it-yourself package.
Established mid/large-sized companies are very leery of sensitive data outside the intranet, and used to e-mail for discussions. They know e-mail sucks badly for that, but it's like keyboards - you're not going to switch layout for each task.
Frankly, I have the perception that internal web apps are for the peons to fill in the little fiddly input form fields (looking at you, HN comment box) - at the top you have emails with thousands of (mostly unread) lines quoted, plus attached presentations and spreadsheets.
Make a web app where everybody can reap results via email, even if only a few bother fiddling with the controls in the browser, and it might be a winner. Might.
- jbr 17y agoWe've looked at doing a host-it-yourself version a la github FI (http://fi.github.com/ http://fi.github.com/) or the google search appliance. Although the pricing that tier allows is quite cushy, (http://fi.github.com/pricing.html http://fi.github.com/pricing.html), the company they used to wrap up the installer is dauntingly priced for our bootstrapped budget (http://bitrock.com/ http://bitrock.com/). So that'll probably happen after we get the SaaS version off the ground.
- ableal 17y agoDidn't know those existed, thanks for the links. Sounds like you're doing it right. Two 'cheaper' ideas: - A VM with minimal customization (use existing LDAP, etc.) - Your install in a common server is exactly like some other popular intranet package (a wiki or PHP-BB ?), and can copy its initial settings from there ... Good luck.
- jbr 17y agoWe do have output to email; you can email new ideas and attachments in to your lists and receive customizable updates by email.