WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your brain

Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by shasta on Thursday November 04, 2010 @03:59PM (#1870525)

Four testimonial quotes, a short fluffy video, and a sign up box? That's your launch website? You're kidding, right?

Is it online only? Is it free? Forever or for a trial? ...

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by apu on Thursday November 04, 2010 @04:33PM (#1870662)

If your first version is so impressive that trolls don't make fun of it, you waited too long to launch.

http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by shasta on Thursday November 04, 2010 @04:42PM (#1870691)

I think he was referring to the product, not the website.

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by pg on Thursday November 04, 2010 @05:00PM (#1870755)

Sites are usually also pretty bad initially.

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by elbenshira on Thursday November 04, 2010 @04:05PM (#1870546)

Why is this bad? It's a launch website.

And it worked because I signed up.

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by twymer on Thursday November 04, 2010 @04:25PM (#1870622)

Same, and quickly realized I'll probably never return.

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by oscardelben on Thursday November 04, 2010 @05:04PM (#1870774)

I thought about that, but given its potential for me I set it as my homepage. I'll give it a few days to see if it has money for me.

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by hasenj on Thursday November 04, 2010 @05:36PM (#1870902)

But this is because you saw it on HN and it's a YC company so you want to give it a chance.

Most people wouldn't care or even know what YC is.

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by eof on Thursday November 04, 2010 @07:16PM (#1871256)

Did he say that some where else? I can honestly say I may have been more likely to open it up and check out the site because it's a YC company, but I am 'giving it a chance' because I don't have anything else that does this except scrap paper and issue queues and I liked how you can change what the root node is and the clever use of breadcrumbs.

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by oscardelben on Friday November 05, 2010 @03:21AM (#1872352)

That, and because it's extremely fast compared to other software. I usually tend to go with less apps, but this could be a nice addition for me. Time will tell.

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by jessep on Thursday November 04, 2010 @05:22PM (#1870843)

Nice. That's what I like to hear! Please let us know what you think after a few days of using it.

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by da5e on Thursday November 04, 2010 @07:07PM (#1871221)

I think if I use it for a week I'll be hooked. Some sort of game mechanism to get people to use it for that initial crucial time frame might be helpful.

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by jessep on Friday November 05, 2010 @02:34AM (#1872263)

Totally :) I think a simple progress bar getting people up to, say 1000 items might do it. Any other ideas?

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by lazyronin on Thursday November 04, 2010 @04:09PM (#1870565)

I find it's the perfect combination. Watch the 45s video, and you know everything about the product. All that's left to do is enter an email address + password and you can start using the app.

Great site.

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by shasta on Thursday November 04, 2010 @04:41PM (#1870687)

The post you're replying to contains three questions you don't know the answer to without signing up for the service.

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by jessep on Thursday November 04, 2010 @05:40PM (#1870915)

We'll put this stuff online and put more descriptive text. Thanks for the feedback. Conversions are really good, btw, so something's working.

Regarding your specific questions:

1) "Is it online only?" You can currently edit offline and when you go back online it'll sync your changes. Don't close your browser window, though, cause it'll lose the changes. That'll be fixed soon thanks to html 5 caching.

2 & 3) "Is it free?" & "Forever?" It's going to be like Dropbox, freemium with a quota. In other words, free forever up to a certain number of lists allowed. We'll grandfather in early users.

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by thebooktocome on Friday November 05, 2010 @11:08AM (#1873425)

"free forever up to a certain number of lists allowed"

Er, I love your product and use it, but how does that model even make sense? Couldn't I get around it by having everything in a single root list?

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by jessep on Saturday November 06, 2010 @02:04AM (#1876287)

Oh, I guess I think of every item in WorkFlowy as a list. So I should have said, "certain number of items".

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Re:WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your... by derekdahmer on Thursday November 04, 2010 @04:45PM (#1870701)

It's a simple tool that only needs a simple explanation and simple signup box.

That said, a text explanation would make the process even faster. Also it would be interesting to see a usable mini-version of their hierarchical list right on the homepage that I could play around with before even putting in my email address.

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