Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A...
by yesimahuman on Thursday March 03, 2011 @10:51PM
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Ah! That's just like a side project my old startup and I had called "Fready." Basically Fready gives you news on the people you are meeting with before you meet with them. It uses NLP to pull out any names/companies/locations from a google calendar event to give you pretty relevant news. Here is an old blog post about it: http://blog.getfready.com/ Perhaps we should have pitched it at our YC interview...
Unfortunately I took it down recently but it might be a good time to bring it back.
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A...
by jmtame on Thursday March 03, 2011 @10:50PM
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congrats jake and wil! this solves a problem i have nearly every time i meet with someone new. i'll look them up on facebook and linkedin, i'll try to figure out more about them or at least get a picture so i know who i'm looking for. noteleaf makes this a lot faster and easier. it's one of those problems that's not excruciating, but it's so repetitive that it becomes very annoying to do manually.
i'm not sure how much you've thought about making it easy to remember things about people but that's still a pain point for me.
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A...
by iamwil on Thursday March 03, 2011 @11:54PM
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We started with remembering things about people, and found that the simple way to do that was to take notes.
However, note taking has such a high barrier to entry, that we ended up pivoting here. However, I think there's different ways about it that we'll play with down the line if we revisit the topic.
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A...
by mmelin on Saturday March 05, 2011 @06:12AM
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Since you already know when I'm meeting with someone, I would love to be pinged shortly after the meeting and prompted to add some notes while it's still fresh in my mind. I'm not very good at taking notes during meetings, but would love to be able to record a short summary afterwards (with the recording being saved with metadata about which meeting it applies to - having this would have been invaluable to me in certain situations in the past)
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A...
by tuhin on Thursday March 03, 2011 @10:55PM
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Perhaps the best and the worst thing for the app are interdependencies on other apps/service like Gmail and LinkedIN.
I am sure they will be adding other email services as well as Outlook support. Let's face it a lot many people are still stuck to Outlook/MS Exchange servers for office emails.
When will you offer SSL on your account create / login forms?
I'm hesitating connecting my Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar.
I noticed you are using Woopra, how is that working out?
It makes the world look like an earthquake zone.
Beyond that, it's pretty good. I can things coming in live, which is nice.
Unfortunately I took it down recently but it might be a good time to bring it back.
I'm still got that $40 waiting for you to fix my email problem, though. :)
i'm not sure how much you've thought about making it easy to remember things about people but that's still a pain point for me.
However, note taking has such a high barrier to entry, that we ended up pivoting here. However, I think there's different ways about it that we'll play with down the line if we revisit the topic.
I am sure they will be adding other email services as well as Outlook support. Let's face it a lot many people are still stuck to Outlook/MS Exchange servers for office emails.