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by transpose 3912 days ago
Hi everyone, I'm Hussein, the CEO of Transpose. Thanks for the feedback, positive and negative.

The idea behind Transpose is the lack of options between something as simple and ubiquitous as note taking apps like Evernote and fully fledged database solutions like FileMaker and Access.

What we found out from our research is the a lot of use cases and critical applications should have been built on a database if it was feasible, affordable, cloud based and anyone can build without the need of hiring a software house or even dedicating an enterprise IT department to build something from scratch. People have been tracking orders, leads, assets and even critical project planning on various apps including even Evernote which is not designed for those use cases.

With Transpose we are also tackling the growing epidemic of having a dozen of different apps all stitched together somehow duplicating the data across and demanding the team to learn and use each one of them just to visualize information differently; like Trello on boards, spreadsheets in table form, notes just for ease and cross platform functionality. We shooting high aiming to disrupt and fix that as well. If the data is structured and we extract all this extra metadata on top of that automatically so why not utilize your data and get as much value out of it?

Here is a quick intro video on Transpose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfKeTljl5ro

We have all sort of amazing technology working seamlessly behind the scene. Text Analytics, Entity Extraction, Voice Transcription, OCR on images, Filtering by fields, sorting syncing online and offline with a native iOS app and a new Android app coming out next week. You can see your data in multiple views, plot it on Calendar, see it as an editable spreadsheet, or even on an interactive Kanban board. There are more than 20 patents in many areas technological and UI its all BY DESIGN blends in to be invisible.

I do agree though, its really hard to put what we are doing and describe it in one sentence. I love Peter Theil's talk at the Launch where he articulated EXACTLY the situation we are in now.. what category shout that FIT in? what is that like? who direct competition do we have? You can see that segment https://youtu.be/ryFB6mvy4uE?t=34m49s and Claire from our team just wrote a piece on Huffington Post about our "Peter Thiel Problem".

We grew from 0 to 100,000 users viraly with ZERO dollars in Marketing. Awesome Makers create templates to solve every single problem you can think of and then they share that template with their followers to clone a copy and they also invite collaborators (typically co-workers) to work on a shared template data set feeding new data and manipulating it.

Would love your feedback and thanks again everyone! You can also feel free to reach me directly by email (hussein@transpose.com) would love to hear from y'all!

P.S. We are re-working the homepage completely to be 100% visual to SHOW what we offer instead of just trying to ramble and try to explain it in words...

1 comments

If you had actually tried to explain what a "template" was in words it would have helped a great deal. My assumption was that they were fixed text structures and you could fill in the blanks, but comments seem to indicate they are actually more like database schemas.
Thanks for the suggestion. We are actually working now on explaining the concept "visually" more than relying on words. They are indeed database schemas but obviously we are avoiding to use technical terms given the audience is non-technical from the business and corporate worlds.