The cloud shooting itself on the foot: dispatch.io/.cc and do.com

Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 26, 2013 at 10:46 PM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>My impression is that both Workflowy
>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1870473 and Gingko
>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6302825 are Y Combinator funded…
> >Let’s not hold any illusions here: tools like Workflowy and Gingko are
>not garage operations; not when they start serving tens of thousands of
>users who rely on these tools regularly and have very limited patience.
>You need serious money to support the server power and software
>debugging and maintenance over a reasonable period.

Thanks, interesting… You’re right about WorkFlowy re YC funding. But as far as I understand, Gingko was merely featured on HN (as part of the “Show HN” feature), which doesn’t in itself mean YC funding. At least they’re not on the YC list of funded companies:
http://yclist.com/

It is my general sense though that Gingko are merely starting out (after all they were only just offering the lifetime membership to their first 500 customers), while WorkFlowy has just mentioned on their blog today that they have 600,000 users:

http://blog.workflowy.com/post/65084158466/we-dont-blog-because-were-busy-building-workflowy

They also said “WorkFlowy is a successful small business” and “there are only two of us,” which is why I thought of them as a garage operation…