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Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by aschobel on Thursday March 03, 2011 @11:30PM (#2287011)
Congrats, super simple sign up and great VxD.

When will you offer SSL on your account create / login forms?

I'm hesitating connecting my Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar.

Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by iamwil on Thursday March 03, 2011 @11:40PM (#2287036)
Yes, we'll be adding SSL to the account create / login soon. It's very high on our current list of things to do. :)
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by aschobel on Thursday March 03, 2011 @11:53PM (#2287049)
Sweet!

I noticed you are using Woopra, how is that working out?

Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by iamwil on Thursday March 03, 2011 @11:56PM (#2287055)
Every time someone loads a page, a circle explodes out of where the person's located.

It makes the world look like an earthquake zone.

Beyond that, it's pretty good. I can things coming in live, which is nice.

Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by drusenko on Thursday March 03, 2011 @11:23PM (#2286994)
holy shit, i just got super excited about this. if it works as advertised, it will be absolutely amazing. i would easily pay for it.
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by yesimahuman on Thursday March 03, 2011 @10:51PM (#2286932)
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 @10:55PM (#2286936)
did you use a particular ranking function for information retrieval or text analysis like bm25? i'd be curious
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by iamelgringo on Friday March 04, 2011 @03:07AM (#2287419)
Congrats, guys! I'm really happy for you. It's been amazing to see how you guys have kicked ass over the past two years.

I'm still got that $40 waiting for you to fix my email problem, though. :)

Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by jmtame on Thursday March 03, 2011 @10:50PM (#2286928)
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 (#2287051)
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 (#2291302)
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 bricestacey on Thursday March 03, 2011 @11:31PM (#2287017)
I think it's strange that the meeting location is at the very bottom, below all the contextual info. It seems that should be higher.
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by tuhin on Thursday March 03, 2011 @10:55PM (#2286938)
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.

Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by nbashaw on Friday March 04, 2011 @08:57AM (#2288001)
I recognize the "frame" graphics on the homepage from keynote. Very scrappy - good quality design accents with nearly 0 time or money. I like it.
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by twakefield on Friday March 04, 2011 @12:50AM (#2287136)
Congrats guys and great TC article. I had a hard time conceptualizing Noteleaf until I read the article. Brilliant.
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by vgurgov on Friday March 04, 2011 @02:09AM (#2287295)
Congrats Jake and Will! Great progress since last time i checked noteleaf! Must be YC gave some great feedback :))
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by jetaries on Friday March 04, 2011 @01:23AM (#2287191)
Congrats. You can shave for PDay now.
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by jeremymims on Friday March 04, 2011 @12:14AM (#2287087)
Congratulations Wil! I love the pivot.
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by chaostheory on Friday March 04, 2011 @01:44AM (#2287238)
Congrats Wil!!! I still remember mobtropolis man
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by iamwil on Friday March 04, 2011 @01:49AM (#2287249)
Haha, thanks. I still have the domain, but I haven't put it back up. It's on Rails 2.3.8, and I haven't had a chance to port it.
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by daveambrose on Thursday March 03, 2011 @11:27PM (#2287006)
Congrats will!
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by rgrieselhuber on Thursday March 03, 2011 @11:15PM (#2286979)
Congrats guys!
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by old-gregg on Thursday March 03, 2011 @10:57PM (#2286941)
Congrats guys!
Re:Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A... by lordmax on Friday March 04, 2011 @04:32AM (#2287561)
awesome job Jake & Will!