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Re:Why I Quit Intuit and Started Hall.com - An Update on Monday October 10, 2011 @07:18PM (#3096314)
They actually do know what it is (Brett, I hope I'm not revealing too much here). Brett tested versions of this product with his old teams back at Intuit and some other organizations (including Sunfire), so people have been using it for awhile. He's been re-designing and relaunching, which is why there's so many people lined up and waiting - it's basically existing users. Well, that and people who are excited BY THE HYPE YEAAAAHAHH!
Re:Why I Quit Intuit and Started Hall.com - An Update on Monday October 10, 2011 @07:04PM (#3096270)
Brett also says "After spending a month building the first prototype, investors saw what I could do and I never heard the cofounder advice again."

I'd like to point out that Brett is an extraordinarily productive coder AND designer. I run Sunfire Offices (I'm Yishan) and it's pretty rare to find someone who can output so much stuff on his own so Brett's experience is admittedly atypical. Of course, that's also why we invited him to work out of Sunfire - I saw his stuff and was like, shit, this guy can really crank it out.

Anyhow, I should probably address some of the comments further up the page: Brett's the real thing and his company actually makes a Real Product. I'm afraid he hasn't put out any other public marketing materials because they've been working on the actual code. I know I probably don't have any credibility here (i.e. less than Brett himself since I don't post much on HN) but I'll still say - trust me, it's not just some crap marketing.

Brett: you should frickin release already! Sunfire was one of his beta-testing organizations and we'd like to be let into the new version, please.