COMPANY PROJECT MANAGEMENT + ONLINE INTRANET
Good news!
We were listed in ReadWriteWeb’s list of 10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2010. And not just listed, Remindo was placed next to the likes of Jive, BlueKiwi and Sharepoint. Not bad for a month old service! 
Read it here.
So to both Ravit Lichtenberg of Ustrategy and Chris Heuer, thanks for picking us out. It’ll only make us work harder.
Well, till we can put up a buzz page, thought it would be a good idea to share what the media has been saying about Remindo in a single post.
As expected, no one really has been able to categorize us into a slot. We like it
The big one was the Mashable review of Remindo that drew comparisons from Facebook, Twitter and Google Wave!
Remindo has a solid, streamlined interface and a variety of tools to make communication and project management easy and more efficient
ReadWriteWeb listed Remindo in 10 ways social media will change in 2010. In just one of month of being live, we were placed next to Jive, BlueKiwi and Sharepoint!
One of our users, Tony Sarcone from Solveris then blogged about us and said something that we hold dear:
I’ve been shocked how fast, nice and accommodating the support has been. Think that’s everywhere? Read the full text here
Killerstartups then reviewed us saying:
Remindo is cost-efficient as well as practical
Last time I checked, Remindo was one of their top 10 startups for this month. If you like Remindo, please do vote for us here!
Closer home, HindustanTimes.com noted:
(Remindo) can help small businesses and freelancers appear established and professional
While Hindustan Times is one of India’s oldest and most respected media houses, we were eagerly waiting for reviews from tech bloggers because they were better placed to compare us with the rest and criticize/praise.
Ashish from pluGGd.in had this to say about us:
(Remindo interface is) the most apt way to get started when it comes to building social software for (the) enterprise market
It was interesting how he insisted that we are more project management than intranet. Read the full review here.
IndianWebStartups.com found the 3 GB of free storage “quite an exciting offer”. You can read it here.
Alootechie.com wrote about our personalization features and SiliconIndia.com found us to be a great way to stay connected in the office.
There was also a short note from Gajeebo.com that found Remindo well rounded.
All in all, a lot of (good) attention in a short time. But the parts that we really love is what our users are saying about us. Will be posting it soon!
It’s been about 3 weeks since we publicly released Remindo and truth be told, we’re kinda overwhelmed (in a very heart-warming way) by the reviews, the news but most importantly – user FEEDBACK.
It all started when Christina Warren from Mashable reviewed Remindo and gave us a thumbs up. The best part, was that even she couldn’t put us into any category and drew comparisons with Facebook, Twitter and Google Wave. For us, it was an affirmation that we are actually creating something new and useful. In Christina’s words:
“Remindo has a solid, streamlined interface and a variety of tools to make communication and project management easy and more efficient”
And this just got validated over the last one week by the tsunami of user feedback we received from all over the world. At least on first impressions, people have seen merit in our baby and it feels awesome. After all, like every other business, we also had a lean time during the recession – insecurity, budget cuts, insane work hours and little family time. You know this story well; just glad that things are getting better!
Apart from the warm gooey feelings that the feedback induced in us it helped us get our priorities straight. We were so involved with building new features that we were overlooking some simpler things that our users wanted first- like editing and deleting stuff. We’ve redrawn our must-build list based on it so you’ll see these features out in a couple of weeks. More on this later.
By the way, at the moment of writing this post we are in the top10 startups on killerstartups.com for this month. Neat, eh?
This just in, again!
pluGGd.in, a great showcase for startups wrote about Remindo today.
While Ashish gave us a thumbs up in the interface department saying:
(Remindo interface is) the most apt way to get started when it comes to building social software for (the) enterprise market
In an interesting turn of events, he insists that we are more about project management than an intranet!
Now this is a great affirmation that the project management and collaboration features that we have built in are useful, he has also given us some valuable advice on how to take things forward as an intranet.
As expected, a fair and intelligent review from pluGGd.in. Read the full text here
This just in!
One of India’s biggest and most respected newspapers has just given us a mention. Read what they have to say here: HindustanTimes.com coverage
I’m glad they picked the best parts about how free intranets powered by Remindo can save businesses time and money.
This post is long overdue;
Internet Explorer 6 has given us hell and we know that we are not alone. There has been so much furore over IE6 that Microsoft had to explain their position on it. Nevertheless, there is a sizable 12.1% of internet users that still used IE6 in September, 2009.
So where does that leave us? Remindo is heavy on browsers and there is really no way for us to support something as antiquated as IE6. Thankfully, Google gave us some hope with Chrome Frame.
The way it works right now is that users will need to install the plugin and add a cf: in front of URL’s in the addressbar.
So if you are running IE6 and have chrome frame installed, you need to enter a URL like this:
cf:https://www.remindo.com.
This will make Remindo load within the chrome frame and bypass most restrictions that web developers hate about IE6.
Also, if you are feeling especially savvy, here’s a detailed guide by Google that talks about registry changes that you can do to load pages through chrome frame by default – and fix IE6 for good.
Of course, Chrome Frame right now is just a developers’ baby but we really, really hope that it catches on with the masses to solve the world’s IE6 problem!
One of the most common queries that we get about Remindo is about our pricing plans. So we’re setting the record straight.
Like so many SaaS and web based project management apps out there, it would make sense for us to go with what is described as freemium pricing. Enough has been written about it, but in 3 simple steps:
This has been hailed by some as a great business model for startups and also criticized by others. Anyone who provides a free service on the internet must have grappled with the question of what to give away for free and what to charge for. Here’s our take on this.
Remindo is a free and simple project management service and we have been growing (and retaining) a user base so step 1&2 are taken care of. It is step 3 that we have a fundamental problem with.
We dislike the idea of having a paid “enhanced” service vs a free basic service. Why? it implies that we are holding back on a part of our user base who have helped us get to step no 3. We don’t think its wrong (someone’s gotta pay the bills after all!) but we think it is avoidable. And we sure as hell will try!
Why do we feel this way? That’s because we have a whole bunch of users who work in small teams but have given us tremendous amounts of feedback/feature requests and bug reports (some even suggest fixes!). They have been patient when bugs have cropped up or their feature requests were not included (because they were not in sync with our broader plans). In short, they have helped us get where we are and we hope they will be with us when we go forward.
Fred Wilson wrote:
Free gets you to a place where you can ask to get paid
Sure, but we don’t want these guys to pay. Surely there has to be a way to give back to these wonderful folks, right? And we think that the least we can do is to let these guys use for free, what they have helped create.
So here’s the deal, Remindo will be free to use with its entire feature set (unlimited projects, unlimited users -and all the rest) available to people who are helping us build, test and improve Remindo. There will of course be a paid subscription model coming up soon, but not for this group of people.
How do you become part of this group? Just sign up, use Remindo for a project or two and start a conversation with us – let us know what you think, what you like, what you hate and what you wish we had.
PS: In fact, if you have your own service or product that you want us to have a look at or you just want to bounce some ideas off of us – because we have picked up a thing or two – we would be more than happy to pick your brains and let you pick ours! Just drop us a line.
Here in DC the city is abuzz with the “change” that’s coming to Washington. A new administration and a new hope…we hope.
When comparing the current state of government to the current state of private enterprise, the dichotomy is visible: Government people are up, excited, and feeling productive, while regular people are feeling down, stressed, and unproductive. And, that’s got me wondering…
Are our problems all mental?
