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It’s time to say goodbye

61 points| chrisacky | 12 years ago |blog.do.com | reply

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[+] javajosh|12 years ago|reply
So, I'll take the domain if you don't want it anymore...
[+] mistercow|12 years ago|reply
I was just wondering how much less time a website owner will be willing to stick it out on a sinking business for each additional dollar of domain name value. It's got to be a lot more tempting to bail on a site when it means you can sell "do.com" than if the site is "PeanutsForUglyDonkeys.com".
[+] ChikkaChiChi|12 years ago|reply
Do is Done.

Thanks, Salesforce! Your purchase of Manymoon and subsequent shutdown of it instills Google-like levels of confidence in your product offerings!

[+] rhizome|12 years ago|reply
Salesforce is under zero pressure to care what anybody outside of it's extremely profitable walled garden thinks.
[+] blowski|12 years ago|reply
I have no idea why Do is closing down, but I'm guessing it has something to do with lack of ROI. Hence, Salesforce has a fiduciary duty to do so.

This repeated criticism on HN of any company choosing to close down a service is bizarre.

[+] gesman|12 years ago|reply
To DO:

You don't need to do anything. Your domain name will pull seven figures+ without you .... doing anything :)

[+] mamatta|12 years ago|reply
Salesforce (the company behind do.com) is notorious for buying 2-4 letter domains. I'm sure they'll find another way to use it a few years from now.
[+] latraveler|12 years ago|reply
Thats an odd bit of news. I'm in the CRM market (http://www.radiumcrm.com) and as a competitor I always admired the product. It was a very clean UI, had some nice features and was a good complement to the behemoth that is Salesforce. I can't imagine why they would shut it down.
[+] lipanski|12 years ago|reply
I can only agree. Do had a really clean, intuitive design. I didn't used it on a daily basis, but - just like latraveler - I was checking out the competition for my company's product a couple of years ago. Out of all the todo list apps I signed up for (and hell, there sure is a lot to choose from), Do was actually the easiest one to use, basically everything was where I expected it to be. It had the perfect balance between the Basecamp feature-rich but complex UI and the glamorous but over-simplified Wunderlist.

Also they must have payed a fortune for their domain, Salesforce probably intends to reuse it soon.

[+] akadien|12 years ago|reply
What does Do do?
[+] CamperBob2|12 years ago|reply
You can do anything you want at do.com.

The impossible is not a barrier at do.com.

Welcome to do.com.

[+] bcoates|12 years ago|reply
That's the beauty of it... it doesn't do anything!
[+] ballard|12 years ago|reply
Shutdown stories are a braggart form of "fuck you." Early adopters just have to be careful not to rely on ventures by founders that have a history of creating a little value only to throw it all away later.

For the Nth time, for unsold ventures, don't just shutdown if you get bored of something, find a buyer! Not only might this make you some money, it may also salvage your rep for not being someone that abandons their base mercurially.

[+] aegirth|12 years ago|reply
I'm a Salesforce admin and I never understood why Salesforce didn't do more to integrate Do into their platform. The only thing they did was a half-assed AppExchange app which was nearly useless and had no direct integration with the core functionality (why have a collaboration platform if you can't feed it into your organization's data?). Then again, they probably just bought it mainly for the domain name.
[+] collyw|12 years ago|reply
Sorry, a bit off topic, but am I the only one that finds that webpage really horrible to look at? The background makes me think I have a dirty screen. I find it quite unpleasant to look at.
[+] lot49a|12 years ago|reply
Lucky for you, you won't have to look at it ever again.
[+] billiam|12 years ago|reply
It's not do.com, it's doh.com.
[+] mcpherson|12 years ago|reply
You can always switch to getblimp.com. (Shameless plug by a cofounder).
[+] jtemplin|12 years ago|reply
Asana is poised to own the task management space.
[+] simonswords82|12 years ago|reply
We've had to use asana for a particular customer project recently and it's really not that great. For me trello is a far better implementation of task management.
[+] slaxman|12 years ago|reply
i dont think so. i have used asana for my team and couldnt make it stick. we used trello which was better but isn't perfect either. it just seems to me that I shouldn't have to learn another software just to organize my to-do list.