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Come to an agreement where both parties are equally unhappy.

I own crybs.com if you fancy that too.

awesome. thanks again for reminding us!

We will be offering self hosted deployments behind the firewall. All we need is a Git server and you're away. Would be good to chat more, I'm zefi@kivo.com

wow! great spot. We used to be called Verse(.io) and wanted to change to a .com. Cove was one of our options but we didn't go with it in the end. Need to add a redirect. How did you find the url?

great to hear Chris, some of our very early users were at Investment Banks. Drop me your email on zefi@kivo.com, I'd love to get your advice on approaching the large ones.

sorry about that, we will do. There's a mac sign up link in the top bar to add to be added the mac beta.

A variant of this, involving payment, could be the future of journalism.

If someone has the document then they can get the changes. We know this isn't the perfect way to do, but it's the simplest way to start off with. Would appreciate any thoughts on how we can make this better. I'm on zefi@

Big fans of the liveloop guys, great to see other people tackling the problem. For us we're trying to make UX our key differentiator, and keep things as simple as possible. Also, we're doing slide by slide version control, rather than the snapshots of the whole file, which a few other companies in the space go for. One other interesting thing to note, is that when we were doing usability testing, people seemed to prefer the idea of new drafts of a slide rather than pure realtime. It seemed to suit the way they currently worked rather than, realtime. This surprised us.

huge fans of what you guys are up to. what's the best way to get in touch?

Office docs can be exported to xml. Wherever possible we serialise to a git friendly format, if this isn't possible we'll version the binary itself. But we'd love any tips you have!

yep, we're working on word next. Sign up on the site and we'll keep you updated. Do you think that's the best Office format to tackle next?

You're right, ease of adoption is the no. 1 barrier to products like ours and docverse. We know that to make this work, it needs to be at most two or three steps to be fully set up and working with someone else, and then very little effort from then on. No one has made it this simple yet. Also, we're doing slide by slide version control, rather than snapshots of the whole document.

People emailed themselves files before dropbox, but since dropbox I've never done that. That's the kind of ux needed to make any product solving this problem succeed.

So when he makes a change to the file, that edit is synced to a git repo that you have access to, your desktop document (via kivo) is polling that repo for changes and when it sees one pulls it down and displays it within powerpoint

ping me on zefi@kivo

We're trying to make performing these actions simpler than they currently are. Would love any feedback or ideas.

Sorry, we're probably not clear. You can still open your documents just by double clicking on them. If you and I were working on a deck and I stored the flie on dropbox and you on your desktop - we could both double click on the pptx files and they would open. Let me know if I've misunderstood you.

thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it. The video on the home page should be 2 mins. Are you referring to the text on kivo.com or on the blog post? thanks again

At the moment we don't do anything automatic. We display all the previous versions on a slide by slide basis within PowerPoint. We don't know yet what the right way to do this is, but we'd love your input - I'm zefi@kivo.com

completely agree, we'd love your help. I'm on zefi@kivo.com

We're starting off where we know people really have the problem - with MS office files stacked away on old network drives. In the long run we want to integrate with any file type - Photoshop, CAD etc. Wherever there's currently v1, v2, v3, v5_tommy_edit2 we think there's room for improvement.

we'd love to help!

congrats on the growth guys!

This probably what we'll be doing.

Here is a screenshot of the article. http://i46.tinypic.com/358du2c.png

Couldn't get the video unfortunately. I'm in the UK, the VPN I used was Hotspot Shield, it's free.

You can also use this system to find the name of anyone whose LinkedIn profile says private instead of their name.

Find someone who instead of a name has Private, eg http://linkd.in/T0BzOz - then copy their view?id, eg. 196011057 and enter it after the viewee?id here - http://www.linkedin.com/miniprofile view=&vieweeID=196011057&context=nus. Then alakazam, you can see their name. Also, the auth type and auth token in the url will change as well when you click on the 'View Profile' button within the new view.

"Come on, the guy lives alone in a 3+ bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. We all know he signed that lease specifically to run a pseudo-hotel business under the guise of an Airbnb profile."

Categorically not true. Chris is a good friend, and he had a long term roommate until recently. He took on the lease because he knew they could cover rent whether or not the third room got let out. It is an amazing apartment in an awesome building, and his involvement in airbnb is not cynical or presumptuous. His listing was great value and he is an excellent host. I met him through airbnb and am incredibly grateful for it. So, try not to presume.

are you a yc company?

this is superb. precisely what's been missing.