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Show HN: All your team's contacts in one place

14 points by illdave 12y ago

illdave 12y ago
Hi HN - I've just shipped the first iteration of Submarine, a CRM that's built to store all your team's marketing contacts. It auto-archives conversations over email and Twitter, and has a Chrome extension that brings up contact data if you're on a contact's website (or Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, G+ or Pinterest page). I'd love some feedback on the landing page, and on the app itself (there's a free 30 day trial, and you don't need a credit card to try it out).
patelsan 12y ago
Looks good for first iteration. What platform it's built on and how long the this iteration took?
- illdave 12y ago
  Thanks - it's built with Ruby on Rails, and it probably took around 5-6 months, working off and on on it alongside client work.
lost_name 12y ago
Take with a grain of salt since I'm not the target audience. I read "All your team's contacts in one place" and think it's a shared address book. However, it's not the contact information that interesting, it's the aggregation of the data related to the contact that's interesting. Perhaps that's too complicated for a tag line though.
- illdave 12y ago
  Thanks - I agree with you, and you're right, finding an elegant headline is tricky. I'll keep thinking.
danesparza 12y ago
Not knocking the product but just curious: How is this different from Highrise? (https://highrisehq.com/ https://highrisehq.com/)
- illdave 12y ago
  Submarine has a slightly different approach to Highrise - it focuses on minimising data entry, so emails with a contact are automatically stored without having to remember to bcc the app. Similarly, it also auto-archives conversations you have with contacts over Twitter, which I don't think Highrise does. It's got quite a big focus on search too, so you can run reasonably complex searches like "journalist twitter followers > 2000 covered:yes last emailed more than (1 year ago)", which will show you (as you might expect) all the journalists that have more than 2000 twitter followers, who've previously written about you but that you haven't spoken to over email in more than a year. There are other commands too, and I'm planning on adding more over time. Finally, I think the Chrome extension is pretty cool - the image on the homepage does a better job of showing it than I can explain, but it gives you a little button in Chrome that, when clicked, pops up with a contact's details if you're on their website (or Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin etc profile).
- bm5k 12y ago
  Other than the fact that highrise is effectively abandonware?

14 points by illdave 12y ago

Hi HN - I've just shipped the first iteration of Submarine, a CRM that's built to store all your team's marketing contacts. It auto-archives conversations over email and Twitter, and has a Chrome extension that brings up contact data if you're on a contact's website (or Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, G+ or Pinterest page). I'd love some feedback on the landing page, and on the app itself (there's a free 30 day trial, and you don't need a credit card to try it out).

patelsan 12y ago

Looks good for first iteration. What platform it's built on and how long the this iteration took?

illdave 12y ago
Thanks - it's built with Ruby on Rails, and it probably took around 5-6 months, working off and on on it alongside client work.

lost_name 12y ago

Take with a grain of salt since I'm not the target audience. I read "All your team's contacts in one place" and think it's a shared address book. However, it's not the contact information that interesting, it's the aggregation of the data related to the contact that's interesting. Perhaps that's too complicated for a tag line though.

illdave 12y ago
Thanks - I agree with you, and you're right, finding an elegant headline is tricky. I'll keep thinking.

danesparza 12y ago

Not knocking the product but just curious: How is this different from Highrise? (https://highrisehq.com/ https://highrisehq.com/)

illdave 12y ago
Submarine has a slightly different approach to Highrise - it focuses on minimising data entry, so emails with a contact are automatically stored without having to remember to bcc the app. Similarly, it also auto-archives conversations you have with contacts over Twitter, which I don't think Highrise does. It's got quite a big focus on search too, so you can run reasonably complex searches like "journalist twitter followers > 2000 covered:yes last emailed more than (1 year ago)", which will show you (as you might expect) all the journalists that have more than 2000 twitter followers, who've previously written about you but that you haven't spoken to over email in more than a year. There are other commands too, and I'm planning on adding more over time. Finally, I think the Chrome extension is pretty cool - the image on the homepage does a better job of showing it than I can explain, but it gives you a little button in Chrome that, when clicked, pops up with a contact's details if you're on their website (or Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin etc profile).
bm5k 12y ago
Other than the fact that highrise is effectively abandonware?