Here are 4 questions to Rao Machiraju CEO Reqall
Can you tell us more about your service?
reQall is the best memory tool to integrate your memory & daily work/personal tasks with your life, putting more of the things you need to know and remember into one place. Sudden inspiration, personal planning, long-term memory challenges – put it all into reQall. Have an idea while on the road? Instead of rummaging for scrap paper, just call, say it, and get your words translated to text. In a meeting? Use the iPhone or web to quickly enter your action items. Found a great web article on scuba diving vacations? Clip and remember it with reQall on Firefox.
Share, delegate and build your relationships – all on reQall. Tell your forgetful college buddy to book the reunion hall. Ask your spouse to buy bread. Remind your sales guy of your client’s favorite team. Just import your contacts and then help each other remember by sending reminders when you remember and reQall will update you and/or the recipient when the task is due. Strengthen your real memory so you can remember that joke at the next office party. reQall’s memory jogger exercises your brain and keeps your memory fit so you remember better when you’re without reQall.
With reQall’s organizing and sharing capabilities, the family shopping has never been easier. Enter “buy milk” and reQall knows to put it on your shopping list. Want to share the shopping with your spouse? Just enter “tell John to buy shoes for the kids” and it goes on his shopping list.Can’t afford to forget that today is your mom’s birthday? Get reminded of whatever you need to know, whenever and wherever you need it, using the tool that works best for you – email, text message, by phone or instant message.Create an album in Google Picassa of photos that help you remember. Then import the photos into reQall.
What is your business model?
reQall is a free service. They are talking with phone carriers for integration with their customer packages & services. reQall is also in the process of making a subscription service for premium features.
What are the projects, additional features you’re preparing?
Having a native application on the iPhone satisfies three frequent requests. The first two are heard from all iPhone users (including those who are not using reQall yet). The third is from reQall users:1/ A ToDo List manager, 2/Voice recording, 3/Off-line access
reQall already provides iPhone users with #1 and #2. For #3, while the iPhone’s data access is good, there are still times when it cannot get a connection to the internet or the connection is too slow. When you are trying to remember something, the last think you want to deal with is a slow network … by the time the network comes back, you’ve usually forgotten what you wanted to remember. The native iPhone version will solve this by allowing users to capture their thoughts and retrieve reminders when the network has poor or no connection.
Memory jogger: Still under wraps, the idea is that the memory jogger will get smarter about what it jogs you by using more of your data. For example, if you have a meeting coming up with your friend, Albert, reQall will do more to help you remember the things you need to know about this upcoming meeting using reQall’s ability to link different pieces of data together that you’ve already stored.
What are the current users’ feedback, your learnings on the service’s usage?
reQall continuously review user feedback and user ideas have been implemented by reQall including SMS/text messaging.Some true testimonials over the past 2 months include:
"This is truly the most innovative new product I saw at MacWorld." – Erik Ohlin, Owner,
"What a great product you have, it is really helping me stay on top of things." – Jay Johnson
“Great product. I just can’t believe that it’s free.” – Tim G, Tampa, Florida
“I want to thank you for offering such a useful tool!” – Dave, Owner,
“I think this is fantastic and I’m happy to be the first user in Australia!! Go reQall!" –Kartik Kolluri
"this is a brilliant idea." – Farokh
“This program you have created is just pure genius!!!! I love it, no matter how many calendars I have, pocket pcs, even smartphone, I have the iPhone, I never take the time to enter things, I’m too busy. I feel this program is "my" personal secretary, heck I even named her, lol. I am very excited about the new upgrades, and I tell everybody I know about your program, I send them the link, hope it helps spread the word. Again, thank you so much for this program, it beats anything out there, there is nothing like it!!!!!!!!” – Debbie Diaz, Owner of Mrs. Clean O.C.S. Naperville, Illinois