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).
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.
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).
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 24.6 ms ] threadI'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).
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.
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).