Show HN: Hooli – collaborate with your team in one live document

Posted by sidi on Monday September 08, 2014 @02:01PM
from the show-hn dept.

Link: http://hooli.io

There are a gazillion collaboration tools out there. Why build a new one?

I use Trello/Hipchat/Github-issues in my workflow on a daily basis. I have tried a lot more tools. Most of the tools try to do too many things and are not friendly on mobile devices.

Hooli takes the simplicity of a tweet message to make actionable discussions that can be tracked in one live document. We have been using it extensively for taking meeting notes, managing our scrums. It fits nicely with our workflow of Trello -- which we use for tracking weekly/monthly projects and Hipchat -- which is pretty nice for keeping our team updated.

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Re:Show HN: Hooli – collaborate with your team in one live d... by minimaxir on Monday September 08, 2014 @02:15PM (#8286288)

You submitted this yesterday, with already-significant discussion on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8279982

Yes, you really need to change that name.

> What is Hooli? Excellent question! Hear it straight from our CIO Gavin Belson here.

That's not an "easter egg." That's infringement.

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Re:Show HN: Hooli – collaborate with your team in one live d... by sidi on Monday September 08, 2014 @02:21PM (#8286322)

If you notice, it's available to try out today (and hence the new post :-) ).

About the name, we don't see that being a problem -- hopefully, not now at least. We see it as an easter egg in good humour.

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Re:Show HN: Hooli – collaborate with your team in one live d... by angersock on Monday September 08, 2014 @02:38PM (#8286412)

When did we stop having fun as an industry?

Who cares if their name is from a show? They'd hardly be the first business to do so, I'd wager.

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Re:Show HN: Hooli – collaborate with your team in one live d... by minimaxir on Monday September 08, 2014 @02:59PM (#8286532)

There's a difference between using a reference as a one-off joke (as a parody, a la Saturday Night Live) and using a reference as the core branding of your money-making business.

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Re:Show HN: Hooli – collaborate with your team in one live d... by vhost- on Monday September 08, 2014 @05:05PM (#8287259)

What's another business that derived their product or company name directly from a TV show or movie? Just curious.

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Re:Show HN: Hooli – collaborate with your team in one live d... by adpreese on Monday September 08, 2014 @07:40PM (#8287921)

Soylent is the first one that comes to mind.

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