Comments on: Zoho Writer: Create, edit, and share… Again. http://www.solutionwatch.com/243/zoho-writer-create-edit-and-share-again/ Solution Watch surveys the bleeding-edge of the productivity world, reviewing and providing in-depth walkthroughs of today's best services all day and every day. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 05:50:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: ansia http://www.solutionwatch.com/243/zoho-writer-create-edit-and-share-again/#comment-616192 Fri, 23 May 2008 22:39:57 +0000 http://www.solutionwatch.com/243/zoho-writer-create-edit-and-share-again/#comment-616192 i really enjoyed reading your post, i found it to be greatly helpfull. thank you and comliments. I ll be back on your blod to read more. i really enjoyed reading your post, i found it to be greatly helpfull. thank you and comliments. I ll be back on your blod to read more.

]]> by: Ranjith http://www.solutionwatch.com/243/zoho-writer-create-edit-and-share-again/#comment-191 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:00:04 +0000 http://www.solutionwatch.com/243/zoho-writer-create-edit-and-share-again/#comment-191 I would like to clarify few things here. Yes, we accept that Zoho Planner looks similar to Backpackit but we have a different direction for Planner than Backpackit. Time will prove this to them. We completely disagree with Sam's claim on Zoho Writer looking similar to Writely. We are working on this idea for last 6 months & we have released this within 2 weeks of Writely release. By the time Writely was released, we were busy doing our QA & setting other things to get our service up & running. FYKI, our first internal milestone of Zoho Writer was released on 11th August. Let me tell you how Planner got started. One of our engineer was trying Backpackit for maintaining todo's. To be honest, he likes Backpackit for it's simplicity. There was a comment from Jason which triggered him to start his own organizer "The best way to get exactly what you want is certainly to do it yourself". Any techie user will be prompted to build their own by reading such arrogant comment. IMHO, this is a clear sign of monopoly. We need some extra features. We started to implement the following features above Backpackit features. -- Setting deadline for to-do's -- Adding multiple to-do list on a single page -- Listing all publicly shared pages -- Allowing comments in public pages -- Calender & more So this was started as a fun project for our own internal use ( We strongly felt against paying for such arrogance ). Since we felt we can offer better value to users in terms of both features & pricing, we published this service publicly ( we strongly feel that USD $5 / user / month is too much for what it offers ). We would like to get Organizer to masses by offering more free. Even if user's don't use Zoho Planner, atleast user's will get better service & better pricing from 37Signals. That's what competition offers to customers. For example, GMail offered 1GB free space, now Yahoo is offering that. Don't forget that there were days when users paid for getting more space. Let users decide whether they want Zoho Planner or not. But Writely's claim is 100% false. We will leave it for users to decide. Ranjith I would like to clarify few things here.

Yes, we accept that Zoho Planner looks similar to Backpackit but we have a different direction for Planner than Backpackit. Time will prove this to them.

We completely disagree with Sam’s claim on Zoho Writer looking similar to Writely. We are working on this idea for last 6 months & we have released this within 2 weeks of Writely release. By the time Writely was released, we were busy doing our QA & setting other things to get our service up & running. FYKI, our first internal milestone of Zoho Writer was released on 11th August.

Let me tell you how Planner got started. One of our engineer was trying Backpackit for maintaining todo’s. To be honest, he likes Backpackit for it’s simplicity. There was a comment from Jason which triggered him to start his own organizer “The best way to get exactly what you want is certainly to do it yourself”. Any techie user will be prompted to build their own by reading such arrogant comment. IMHO, this is a clear sign of monopoly. We need some extra features. We started to implement the following features above Backpackit features.

– Setting deadline for to-do’s
– Adding multiple to-do list on a single page
– Listing all publicly shared pages
– Allowing comments in public pages
– Calender & more

So this was started as a fun project for our own internal use ( We strongly felt against paying for such arrogance ). Since we felt we can offer better value to users in terms of both features & pricing, we published this service publicly ( we strongly feel that USD $5 / user / month is too much for what it offers ). We would like to get Organizer to masses by offering more free.

Even if user’s don’t use Zoho Planner, atleast user’s will get better service & better pricing from 37Signals. That’s what competition offers to customers. For example, GMail offered 1GB free space, now Yahoo is offering that. Don’t forget that there were days when users paid for getting more space.

Let users decide whether they want Zoho Planner or not. But Writely’s claim is 100% false.

We will leave it for users to decide.

Ranjith

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