We’ve found the bangalore startup community and tech community to be very active and supportive. We had a great focus group session at bangalore on13th Nov at the Egg Factory, St Marks road. A great bunch of enthusiastic participants turned up.
First the food – Its great at the Egg Factory. The music tends to be a bit loud at times for good conversation, but bent on having a nice discussion, we got hold of a couple of tables and launched right into our agenda. The group consisted of some existing users of GrexIt, and some who had heard about us and were yet to try out the tool.
Here are our major take-aways from the meeting:
- Wiki like ‘editability’, if available over the discussions stored on GrexIt, can be very useful.
- Some users might already be using some tool or system to store knowledge and information. Examples: Google docs, wikis, Google sites etc. It would be great if GrexIt could integrate with them.
- Some easy way to add discussions to GrexIt without having to use the plugin would be great. Update from us – we’re coming out with a feature soon that lets you add a discussion to GrexIt along with all attachments and followups by just forwarding it once to catch@grexit.com. (this email id was suggested to us by Karan Vasudeva of Codeboff - Thanks Karan!)
- Powerful search would help. Users want to be able to filter by labels, senders and discussion participants. Update – Advanced search is coming in a week!
- Some messages from a discussion added to GrexIt might not be of a public nature. We’re working on a feature to allow you to quickly and easily remove those messages from GrexIt.
- Users want to see GrexIt search results right inside their inbox. Update from us – we’re scheduling it for our next major release.
Its always a privilege to be interacting with users and enthusiasts who can provide such smart and pointed feedback. Many thanks to you guys, and we’d be talking again soon. You can write in to us at nitesh@grexit.com and niraj@grexit.com anytime.