Hi,
I just wrote you a few minutes ago about RallyPoint. It’s an excellent service…i looked for a long time for something like it. I just got an email from them (a few minutes after writing you) and it’s back online…so you can ignore my last message. Thanks again for a great Blog! Sean
Hi,
I just wrote you a few minutes ago about RallyPoint. It’s an excellent service…i looked for a long time for something like it. I just got an email from them (a few minutes after writing you) and it’s back online…so you can ignore my last message. Thanks again for a great Blog! Sean
Hi,
I’ve been using RallyPointhq.com for a very personal project…I know it’s a free service and I should have backed up all my work…but some of it I hadn’t and it seems that the RallyPoint server is down…perhaps permanently? (not just for my site). Their support info@flip180.com which I previously had used to communicate bounced back emails to me. I’d really like to copy my info off the site….any thoughts? Any idea how I might contact someone from RallyPoint? I’d even be willing to contribute something to them. Thanks for a great blog! All the best, Sean
Hi,
I’ve been using RallyPointhq.com for a very personal project…I know it’s a free service and I should have backed up all my work…but some of it I hadn’t and it seems that the RallyPoint server is down…perhaps permanently? (not just for my site). Their support info@flip180.com which I previously had used to communicate bounced back emails to me. I’d really like to copy my info off the site….any thoughts? Any idea how I might contact someone from RallyPoint? I’d even be willing to contribute something to them. Thanks for a great blog! All the best, Sean
Sector: Online collaboration tools
Headquarters: Dublin, California
Management: Co-founders Daren Jackson and Caine Lai. Both worked at PeopleSoft and then Oracle and left at the same time to start this company.
Funding: Self-funded
Seen and Heard: Rallypoint — Powerful Online Collaboration, on SolutionWatch.
Secret Sauce: A word processor and wiki mixed into one. I talked to Daren Jackson, who said his main goal is to make collaborating on documents as easy as possible. “Coming from a large software company, we’ve been tortured by difficult software, so we want to make the interface very clean, very easy to use. So we agonize over every piece to make sure it’s easy from the user’s perspective.” Users can create and share documents online. People currently using Rallypoint include, for example, a research company and university students working on a group thesis.
User Base: 5,000 active registered accounts
Competitors: Daren Jackson said, “I think two products are close to being our competitors: One is a product called Confluence by Atlasian and the second is JotSpot Tracker. Rallypoint is often grouped with Writely and Zoho — but they’re more focused on the word processing functions being online; Rallypoint has a lot more functionality to share those documents in a team setting. I purposefully don’t watch my competition so I’m not influenced by what they’re doing. I want to keep my vision pure of what I think works. I don’t want to sound snooty, but it’s kind of like I don’t want to be tainted. We’re definitely in touch with our users to see what they want.”
Business Model: Online tiered subscription service. If you want larger space and more users and other functions and so on, you can subscribe.
Sector: Online collaboration tools
Headquarters: Dublin, California
Management: Co-founders Daren Jackson and Caine Lai. Both worked at PeopleSoft and then Oracle and left at the same time to start this company.
Funding: Self-funded
Seen and Heard: Rallypoint — Powerful Online Collaboration, on SolutionWatch.
Secret Sauce: A word processor and wiki mixed into one. I talked to Daren Jackson, who said his main goal is to make collaborating on documents as easy as possible. “Coming from a large software company, we’ve been tortured by difficult software, so we want to make the interface very clean, very easy to use. So we agonize over every piece to make sure it’s easy from the user’s perspective.” Users can create and share documents online. People currently using Rallypoint include, for example, a research company and university students working on a group thesis.
User Base: 5,000 active registered accounts
Competitors: Daren Jackson said, “I think two products are close to being our competitors: One is a product called Confluence by Atlasian and the second is JotSpot Tracker. Rallypoint is often grouped with Writely and Zoho — but they’re more focused on the word processing functions being online; Rallypoint has a lot more functionality to share those documents in a team setting. I purposefully don’t watch my competition so I’m not influenced by what they’re doing. I want to keep my vision pure of what I think works. I don’t want to sound snooty, but it’s kind of like I don’t want to be tainted. We’re definitely in touch with our users to see what they want.”
Business Model: Online tiered subscription service. If you want larger space and more users and other functions and so on, you can subscribe.
