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Comment by mikeryan | Hacker News Reader

Man I really wish I could find out more about what this service does without signing up.

Please add some sort of walkthrough to your website. This seems to have the features (Dropbox/Google Apps Integration) that I think Basecamp sorely misses. Even when I sign up I get stuck having to configure my site team etc. Once I do setup I'm not seeing anything that really distinguishes this app from anything else.

This may be the holy grail but I spent 5 minutes on this site and decided its not for me. Very underwhelming introduction.

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Hi Mike,

Thanks for the feedback. We do indeed have Dropbox and Google Apps integration. If you check out the "Documents" tab in your project, you the option to connect to both Google Docs and Dropbox. You can also connect to Google Calendar via the "Calendar" tab, or grab our Gmail widget from the Google Apps Marketplace (https://blog.siasto.com/clear-your-email-inbox).

Hope this helps!

Hey Courtland

So I'm not as concerned about connecting to those, they're great features to have. I'm more pointing out some flaws from a conversion perspective. Just having those features doesn't do much unless I understand how they work in the context of your entire tool and maybe I'm lazy but I don't want to have to actually use your site as a project tool to figure out if its worth the considerable friction of switching project management tools.

The site is really lacking some form of a walkthrough or demo site or something that demonstrates that your product will do what my current tool does, and how its better. This isn't a blue ocean strategy, its a very crowded market with some very entrenched incumbents, just saying "It integrates with Google Docs and Dropbox" isn't really cutting it.

Yep, makes perfect sense. There are lots of people who want to know more before signing up, and our site is definitely a work in progress.

There are few products which do different kinds of Basecamp/Dropbox/Google Docs integration. One of them is cloudHQ - we sync all Dropbox and Google Docs files with Basecamp: bi-directional and continuously.

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