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lgmspb

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Co-Founder, Staply

Contact: greg at staply dot co

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lgmspb··on StandupMail: Keep your team up-to-date
Is it different from: https://idonethis.com?
lgmspb··on Ask HN: What are you working on right now and why is it cool?
Staply: https://staply.co

It is basically a file messenger. It's cool because it lets you turn files and links you share into one easy to read feed. So that later you would know who sent what, when and why. Think of it as a shared folder with a messenger built-in. It also looks and works great.

lgmspb··on Ask HN: Simple landing page or an informative one?
Clickable links:

https://staply.co

http://web.archive.org/web/20141026193118/https://www.staply...

lgmspb··on Ask HN: Is it clear what we do?
Thanks, that is a great example.
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Is it clear what we do?
Interesting, thanks for the idea. I'll test it :)
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Is it clear what we do?
Thank you for your comment, we are requiring minimum info from you Google account (we have this option for the sake of convenience) and you can always sign up with just an email.
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Is it clear what we do?
Thank you for the feedback, I now understand that we should make the tagline more specific.
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Is it clear what we do?
Thank you very much. That is a very insightful way of providing feedback.

Staply is not made for teams, it is a much simpler tool made for regular people who just want to share and discuss files in a group.

Now they have to use FB chat, shared folders, email or even tools for teams and we want to make the whole process easier and more enjoyable for them. Especially when it comes to finding and understanding files/links that were sent previously.

lgmspb··on Ask HN: Is it clear what we do?
Staply is not made for teams :) It is more for freelancers/student/speakers/... for all kinds of their use cases when they need to share several files and links with a group of people and have a context of who shared what when and why.

Nowadays they get a link in some cloud storage send it via email that you loose it and if you want to add one more person into the discussion it becomes messy. Or they use FB chat that doesn't work in many cases. etc.

lgmspb··on Ask HN: Is it clear what we do?
Just thought may be an autoplay video/gif screenshot would fit there well. Thank you for pointing that out.
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Is it clear what we do?
I am planning to put a video there :)
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Is it clear what we do?
Thank you for the feedback.

We personally use Staply together with other instant messengers/chats and use it more like a shared folder. So like i share files(and discuss them a bit) in Staply but discuss daily routine in IM.

lgmspb··on Ask HN: Is it clear what we do?
We try to collect as much feedback as possible ;)

BTW what so you think about the landing page/product itself?

lgmspb··on Ask HN: Is it clear what we do?
Thank you, what do you think can be obviously improved?
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Is it clear what we do?
Stupid mistake... Thanks!

Slack is a complex tool made for teams of developers and we are a more lightweight solution, made for regular people, with a focus on file sharing and file organization.

lgmspb··on Ask HN: Is it clear what we do?
Hm, interesting. We prefer to put it as Dropbox shared folder+messenger.
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Is it clear what we do?
Thanks, I guess we'll have add something like "features" page.

Basically other solutions are made for teams, they are complex and have a lot to setup. Staply is simple and made for all kind of groups.

Moreover we focus not only on real time sharing. We've made it super easy to find and understand content that was shared even few months ago.

lgmspb··on Ask HN: Is it clear what we do?
Thanks for a clickable link ;) We see Staply as something like a shared folder with annotations. It is made specifically for file-sharing and it gives you a possibility to add context to the files you share.

Later it is possible to filter out just files and in one click get to the place where they was discussed.

lgmspb··on Ask HN: Get feedback on my bootstrapped web scraping as a service project?
Page itself looks nice, but why you've decided to have a custom scroll? I think it would be so much better without it. Will try to look into app itself later.
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Landing page of our upcomming product. What do you think?
Thank you for such a nicely structured and helpful comment.
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Landing page of our upcomming product. What do you think?
I must say you are really attentive :) Thank you very much. We are definitely going to include one more section with use cases, thanks to feedback in this thread.
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Landing page of our upcomming product. What do you think?
Thanks! It is more like a dropbox shared folder with a chat built in :)
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Landing page of our upcomming product. What do you think?
Thank you. We had hard time trying to explain it. "last 30 days" is so simple, thank you one more time!
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Landing page of our upcomming product. What do you think?
Basically we are building a very open platform where you can invite anyone, for example one of use cases would be if you are organizing an event with lots of speakers and you need to collect their presentations and answer all their question regarding the timetable etc. Kind of like a shared folder+small Q&A, where all data is seemlessly organized so that you would know for sure which version of the presentation is the latest one for example.
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Landing page of our upcomming product. What do you think?
Thank you for your suggestions. Especially about the privacy.
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Landing page of our upcomming product. What do you think?
Thank you, we wanted to make it feel more personal and it actually increased our conversion to beta signup quite a bit.
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Landing page of our upcomming product. What do you think?
Thank you very much, we were really excited to launch an updated version. May be we did it a bit too early :)
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Landing page of our upcomming product. What do you think?
Clickable link: https://staply.co
lgmspb··on Ask HN: Conv. rate on LP increased from 2% to 9.5%, how to increase it further?
Clickable links: 1 http://betalist.com/startups/staply 2 https://staply.co
lgmspb··on Landing page of our upcoming product. Do you understand what we do?
Thanks a lot, we definitely need to make some changes.
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