Writely so
Posted by Jen Mazzon, Google Writely
Team
For the last five months, I've been part of a Silicon Valley
startup called Upstartle, which makes Writely, a collaborative word
processor that runs in a web browser. Well, as of Monday, I'm
happy to say that I, and the rest of the Writely team, are now
The other night, I was talking to my husband about how nervous I
was to be starting work there. Truth be told, we've all been
pretty overwhelmed for the past few weeks. What could our little
team possibly do that's innovative enough? And he said,
"Hello? You already did it!" It's true — everyone
told us it was crazy to try and give people a way to access their
documents from anywhere — not to mention share documents
instantly, or collaborate online within their browsers. But
that's exactly what we did. And since we launched the Writely
beta in August 2005, many thousands of people have registered, and
all of them came through word of mouth (and blog).
To be clear, Writely is still in beta, and it's far from
perfect. Upholding our great user experience means everything to
us, so we're not accepting new registrations until we've
moved Writely to Google's software architecture. If you're
interested in giving us a try, we hope you'll
you know when you'll be able to try out Writely.