Comments on post “Quip Chat Rooms”
Jason Shah
@jasonyogeshshah · CEO @ Do (Do.com)
I'm very curious to see how all of the competition in docs / chat plays out. A quick, non-exhaustive roundup...
Quip: (Mobile Docs) + Doc Chat + General Chat
Dropbox: (Files) + In-doc chat + Composer
Slack: (Chat) + Posts + Snippets
Evernote: (Notes) + Work Chat + Context
Google Docs: (Docs) + Chat + Comments + Email Notifications w/ replies
Microsoft Word + Office 365: (Docs) + Chat + more
Any thoughts on Quip's secret sauce @btaylor?
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Dan Moore
@toobulkeh · Vaporware
@btaylor @jasonyogeshshah Not only is there more to this list (Trello, Asana, Basecamp, etc etc...) but I think it misses the point. In this marketplace there doesn't have to be a secret sauce. People work differently and like different interfaces. Dropbox itself is a result of the cross-collaboration of multiple types of computers.
What we need is a standard non-proprietary format to be the root of all of these. Maybe JSON is as close as we'll get.. or maybe we'll just have Yet Another Standard.
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Jason Shah
@jasonyogeshshah · CEO @ Do (Do.com)
@btaylor @toobulkeh Hm. Yeah I def. think different strokes for different folks makes sense, and there are often several players in a given space, so no argument there really. I guess I'm more intrigued by the RECENT collision of historically distinct collaboration solutions - Quip had mobile docs, Evernote has personal notes, Yammer/Chatter/Hipchat/Slack had chat, Dropbox had files, Asana had tasks, Basecamp had tasks/projects too, Trello same...but now they're all (inevitably) doing what the others were doing before, with Evernote doing chat, Dropbox doing notes, and so on. That probably has happened before in history (enterprise software has always seen land-and-expand product strategies and user bases)...but the past 12-18 months has seen exceptional heat in this area.
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