Comments on: Good News/Bad News For Startup Founder Cliff Shaw

By: chrisco

chrisco — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:59:45 +0000

Sounds like a lot of bandwidth used for not a lot of revenue. I guess it’s a Freemium model… and I’m guessing people who like the service will pay a little bit for it. I personally don’t use Google Docs… yet?

By: John

John — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:57:12 +0000

On the crunchbase page for docsyncer you have two broken links

The link below the Product header and
“Product URL:” above the People header

.com is missing from the urls

By: 42mb.com

42mb.com — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:01:26 +0000

That’s good to hear about DocSyncer, however they are still in Beta.

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:29:53 +0000

Protectmyphotos still appears to be working for me. Are they closing the service?

By: Gregg

Gregg — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:21:03 +0000

The only exit possibility for DocSyncer is a sale to Google. But Google won’t buy it. It’s too easy for them to just add the functionality themselves. His two projects sound like dumb and dumber to me.

By: Joshua Harrison

Joshua Harrison — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:30:59 +0000

Everything done by this app can be done by any app via the Google API’s, and this duplicated in short order:

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/

How is this promising or different?

By: Jahbuh Dahut

Jahbuh Dahut — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:19:52 +0000

What I want to know is how did Docsyncer get my email address to send me notice that this launched earlier this week and why did they frame the email as though it was an official Google product?

By: damon

damon — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:17:41 +0000

docsyncer = no revenue stream at all

- no adds (it’s a little desktop widget)
- can’t charge (or someone else will create a free one)
- google won’t buy you (the product is a nit to recreate)

useful, yes

By: matilda

matilda — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:56:54 +0000

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By: Avinash

Avinash — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:28:36 +0000

hmm..interesting. Good job Cliff.

By: YDRIVE

YDRIVE — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:23:00 +0000

To sync files with Google Docs is just a bit too easy?!

By: Live Crunch

Live Crunch — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:17:39 +0000

They can still sell their domain name and get the money back and bad news becomes good news.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:08:46 +0000

Cliff, call me!

By: India Job Search

India Job Search — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:04:13 +0000

OMFG! I was just thinking about that today, about how cool it would be if Google upgraded its Google Docs so we can just just upload the Word and Excel docs so we always have access.

By: Sam Patel

Sam Patel — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:03:44 +0000

I would like to speak to Cliff Shaw about protectmyphotos.com. I think there may be some synergy. Sam Patel, CEO, Photo Scan Club

By: Shaganomix

Shaganomix — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:57:59 +0000

Who the hell cares about Cliff Shaw?

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:34:59 +0000

gilltots - read our original review post for details:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007.....ogle-docs/

By: Angela Hayden

Angela Hayden — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:31:26 +0000

I’ve been using DocSyncer for a couple of days now. I really like the fact I can upload hugh files. It’s a good place to have clients review artwork in hi-resolution and then send me feedback.

sincerely,
Angela Hayden
ART GODDESS

By: gilltots

gilltots — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:31:02 +0000

does docSyncer cost money to use? what’s the revenue stream? or are they still trying to figure that out?

By: waigs

waigs — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:29:44 +0000

I think I’m the first one to comment on this post