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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by alkonaut on Monday July 23, 2018 @02:09PM (#17594554)
Any business that is part Linux and part windows, exchange infrastructure, will need an exchange client for all their Linux client machines?

Assuming web based won’t cut it for those users, then it would seem Hiri is a good fit for that business?

I can’t see in what way you are competing or displacing Outlook if you are makinhg a product for Linux. The reason it’s a viable product would be 1) because there is no Linux outlook, and 2) because a business has users that have to run Linux while others run Outlook on windows, against the same Exchange infrastructure?

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by dpower on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @06:46AM (#17599756)
Linux is not our USP. In fact, we mostly sell to Windows users. We've been around for 5 years. We released Hiri for Linux a year ago.

Our USP is increased productivity. Check out the Skills Center: https://www.hiri.com/skills/

Also, we're not really trying to compete with Outlook per se. We will never match it feature for feature - not necessary or desirable.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by nambit on Monday July 23, 2018 @11:49PM (#17597987)
Web does cut it apparently. Not for the users but enough for management to not expense a separate product for the entire company.
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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by alkonaut on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @02:01AM (#17598474)
If that’s the case then the app in the article isn’t displacing Outlook but instead a tiny web based fraction of it - something that should be a lot easier.
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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by ndarwincorn on Monday July 23, 2018 @04:12PM (#17595575)
>there is no Linux outlook

With the GH aquisition I'll be shocked if we don't see most of MS's desktop stuff, including Office, move to Electron/WebAssembly in the next few years.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by awill on Monday July 23, 2018 @05:28PM (#17596181)
Outlook is already a bloated beast. Moving it to Electron would be a disaster. I can't see it happening. Maybe a 'lite' version of outlook, but not the version enterprises use.
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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by hug on Monday July 23, 2018 @09:15PM (#17597401)
Yes, but https://twitter.com/thelarkinn/status/1006746626617008128?s=...
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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by pjmlp on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @12:56AM (#17598210)
That guy was forced to comment on Reddit that he was joking about it.

What about linking to that instead?

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by fourthark on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @01:31AM (#17598347)
https://amp.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8qqhlz/office_...
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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by sah2ed on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @04:18AM (#17599053)
From the same author, but longer:

https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1006907969760473093/ph...

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by freeone3000 on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @02:47PM (#17603856)
Don't worry, by then we'll have more ram and faster processors and it'll run nearly as quick!
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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by GenericsMotors on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @02:59AM (#17598696)
Then prepare to be shocked
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