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Co-Founder, Staply

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Thank you very much. That is a very insightful way of providing feedback.

Staply is not made for teams, it is a much simpler tool made for regular people who just want to share and discuss files in a group.

Now they have to use FB chat, shared folders, email or even tools for teams and we want to make the whole process easier and more enjoyable for them. Especially when it comes to finding and understanding files/links that were sent previously.

Staply is not made for teams :) It is more for freelancers/student/speakers/... for all kinds of their use cases when they need to share several files and links with a group of people and have a context of who shared what when and why.

Nowadays they get a link in some cloud storage send it via email that you loose it and if you want to add one more person into the discussion it becomes messy. Or they use FB chat that doesn't work in many cases. etc.

Thank you for the feedback.

We personally use Staply together with other instant messengers/chats and use it more like a shared folder. So like i share files(and discuss them a bit) in Staply but discuss daily routine in IM.

Stupid mistake... Thanks!

Slack is a complex tool made for teams of developers and we are a more lightweight solution, made for regular people, with a focus on file sharing and file organization.

Thanks, I guess we'll have add something like "features" page.

Basically other solutions are made for teams, they are complex and have a lot to setup. Staply is simple and made for all kind of groups.

Moreover we focus not only on real time sharing. We've made it super easy to find and understand content that was shared even few months ago.

Thanks for a clickable link ;) We see Staply as something like a shared folder with annotations. It is made specifically for file-sharing and it gives you a possibility to add context to the files you share.

Later it is possible to filter out just files and in one click get to the place where they was discussed.

Basically we are building a very open platform where you can invite anyone, for example one of use cases would be if you are organizing an event with lots of speakers and you need to collect their presentations and answer all their question regarding the timetable etc. Kind of like a shared folder+small Q&A, where all data is seemlessly organized so that you would know for sure which version of the presentation is the latest one for example.