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Also, does it annoy anyone else when they don't even put a small amount of text telling what a program/service does on the front page?

I don't want to watch some video where people fawn over their great new service. I just want to quickly read what it does and move on (or sign up or download, whichever is appropriate).

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> Also, does it annoy anyone else when they don't even put a small amount of text telling what a program/service does on the front page?

Annoys the heck out of me. Wish every front page was like YC's, or Deck networks (no sarcasm, quite serious). I do not know if most <whoever responsible for company website frontpage> are idiots, or is this what sells, and the idiot is me.

edit: responsible for, not from.

Launching an app on HN?

TL;DR <5 words

"I just want to quickly read what it does and move on"

It just took me a few seconds to see that it doesn't support linux (except Android) or any other free operating system, and move on. (If "chat for dynamic teams" wasn't enough.)

Web browsers don't exist in linux land?

Yes, I see that it has "for browser," too; point taken. But experience indicates that when a service has native implementations and also a version that works in a web browser, the latter is very likely to be slow, clumsy, and incomplete. If the browser version is a first-class citizen, then usually there is no native version, because there is no need for one. For example, Gmail.

I think your experience is rather limited, then. At least in the enterprise space, there's a need for both native clients and their full-featured web-based counterparts. They fulfill different, equally valid needs. Generally speaking, if a company's web-based products offer limited functionality, they become a big liability in competitive situations.

If this is true, then this outfit is missing the native component for any free OS, which was my original point, wasn't it?

What do you mean? Isn't it clear?

> Your files and messages. Always in sync. On all devices. Team communication is now a simple, common-sense thing. Make it yours.

It's clear after you spend 3 seconds on their site. There should be a demo or UI mockups without hitting play on a video (which shows no UI) so folks can see if it will work for them. It comes off that it is actual vaporware right now even if it's not.

Apple, Google, and Microsoft all promise this, as do a ton of smaller companies. So no, this buzzphrase doesn't differentiate fleep much at all.

Apologies if I missed some subtle sarcasm. :)

That said, their homepage seems passable to me. Maybe they added some content in the past few hours?

Yeah, it was sarcasm. I like the look of the page, I guess the pictures communicate what it is enough to explore it further, but the message I pasted is really horrible.

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